What is a good book to start learning Flex 4 and Actionscript 3?

When I started with Flex I picked "Adobe Flex 3: Training from the Source" and "Flex 3 Cookbook" from O'Reilly. They helped me a bit with the basics but the most used source was the good original Flex documentation.

When I started with Flex I picked "Adobe Flex 3: Training from the Source" and "Flex 3 Cookbook" from O'Reilly. They helped me a bit with the basics but the most used source was the good original Flex documentation. If you are looking for really advanced information, the internet is the number one source!

There are very good articles and tutorial on the Flex Developer Center. Also always a good source is blog.flexexamples.com/ and there are many more ...

Adobe Flex 3: Training from the Source. I was in the same place as you and this let me pick up the key stuff extremely quickly. Though this might be a bit outdated for Flex 4, but as far as I have scratched Flex 4, looks like the basic concepts you learn from this book are still highly applicable.

The authors of Adobe Flex 3: Training from the Source have put out a version for Flex 4, and in a few months the more advanced volume 2 will be released. The authors of this series are very good and often on Twitter. Another book that I liked a lot was the Flex 3 Bible.

A new book was released for version 4 -- Flash Builder 4 and Flex 4 Bible. This is a massive book that covers beginning through advanced.

Colin Mook's Essential Actionscript 3 book is quite useful.

It's not a book, but the AIR application "Tour de Flex" is an example-based (~200) tour of the various Flex components, complete with source code: adobe.com/devnet/flex/tourdeflex/. I wish it was around when I got started.

If you are looking for Flex version 4, try Flex 4 Fun by Chet Haase You'll learn new animations, components, skins and tricks in Flex 4. You can check some demos here. Chet is known for his work at Sun at Swing team and other books and articles about UI design and tricks.

Also take a look at Solar Panel List. It's not a book but this beautiful example will surprise and inspire you about what you can do in Flex 4.

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