topic Re: How long I can learn Flex API on average? in ArcGIS API for Flex Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-flex-questions/how-long-i-can-learn-flex-api-on-average/m-p/630703#M14033 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">I have finished learning Flex.&nbsp; But when I study Esri Flex API using Flex Builder, I still feel there are a lot I don't know.&nbsp; I have a task to finish using flex API, if I study 8 hours each day, usually how long does an average person take to use flex API to create some new flex application for web map?&nbsp; Thank you very much! Any experience or advise will help me a lot!</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I actually started by digging into the FLEX samples and only looked at Adobe FLEX help and examples as I needed to frame in around it.&nbsp; I didn't have much programming experience and I spent about 400 hrs over 6-7 months before I got my first app up and running.&nbsp; Depending on how plain or fancy you want to get it could be more or less time.&nbsp; I'd suggest working specifically through the basic samples that are posted on the ESRI site.&nbsp; Each of those examples really only do one or two things.&nbsp; This is good since you don't have too many lines of code to deal with.&nbsp; Since they are rather basic,&nbsp; I didn't find it too difficult to copy functions etc into a new file and get my code to do just one more thing.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The applications I've dealt with use quite a few query tasks, data grids and the use of listeners on graphic layers.&nbsp; Query tasks have several examples, but I had to dig around to find examples of the interaction of the ESRI attributes with the datagrid.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:16:41 GMT TracySchloss 2010-11-24T16:16:41Z How long I can learn Flex API on average? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-flex-questions/how-long-i-can-learn-flex-api-on-average/m-p/630702#M14032 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have finished learning Flex.&nbsp; But when I study Esri Flex API using Flex Builder, I still feel there are a lot I don't know.&nbsp; I have a task to finish using flex API, if I study 8 hours each day, usually how long does an average person take to use flex API to create some new flex application for web map?&nbsp; Thank you very much! Any experience or advise will help me a lot!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:10:04 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-flex-questions/how-long-i-can-learn-flex-api-on-average/m-p/630702#M14032 LeiZhou 2010-11-22T20:10:04Z Re: How long I can learn Flex API on average? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-flex-questions/how-long-i-can-learn-flex-api-on-average/m-p/630703#M14033 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">I have finished learning Flex.&nbsp; But when I study Esri Flex API using Flex Builder, I still feel there are a lot I don't know.&nbsp; I have a task to finish using flex API, if I study 8 hours each day, usually how long does an average person take to use flex API to create some new flex application for web map?&nbsp; Thank you very much! Any experience or advise will help me a lot!</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I actually started by digging into the FLEX samples and only looked at Adobe FLEX help and examples as I needed to frame in around it.&nbsp; I didn't have much programming experience and I spent about 400 hrs over 6-7 months before I got my first app up and running.&nbsp; Depending on how plain or fancy you want to get it could be more or less time.&nbsp; I'd suggest working specifically through the basic samples that are posted on the ESRI site.&nbsp; Each of those examples really only do one or two things.&nbsp; This is good since you don't have too many lines of code to deal with.&nbsp; Since they are rather basic,&nbsp; I didn't find it too difficult to copy functions etc into a new file and get my code to do just one more thing.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The applications I've dealt with use quite a few query tasks, data grids and the use of listeners on graphic layers.&nbsp; Query tasks have several examples, but I had to dig around to find examples of the interaction of the ESRI attributes with the datagrid.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:16:41 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-flex-questions/how-long-i-can-learn-flex-api-on-average/m-p/630703#M14033 TracySchloss 2010-11-24T16:16:41Z