First Steps in Flex (Book Review)

So, I won this book by asking James Ward a good question during CodeMash2009. I'd already been working with Flex for quite a while, so I thought this book would be too basic for me. But since it was a concise 140pp., I sat down an gave it a read. Most of the stuff is pretty basic, but it also presents things with an opinion.

In Flex/Actionscript, you can implement the same behavior many different ways, but this book presents examples in the authors' preferred way. The book comes across with the development experience of the authors, which is the most valuable information. Some chapters were 1 page, because there wasn't much else they could say that wasn't in the documentation. And every chapter had a Further Learning section that provided references to specific topics.

I wish this book was around when I started playing with Flex.