I'd like to start a discussion aimed at prospective new
developers. This is sort of an in-process review. The end state
getting feedback on our current setup just to make sure we are making
it easy for new folks.
Let's setup the ground rules of working on constructive /
positive. Giving feedback for issues found or ideas for growth are
great. Focus being on a new person blindly walking into Flex and
attempting to get started from scratch.
Here are some starting points to get things moving (can add more).
I consider this to be sort of a 1/2/3 in terms of steps to get
started.
1. Presentation to new users. IE the flex website. It looks good,
but I've been looking at the same one over the years and I may be
complacent with it's design.
- Is it still easy enough for a new developer to walk into, see our
highlights and figure out how to get started?
2. The SDK installer or manual SDK download.
- Is the SDK installer still easy to download and have an SDK be ready
for whatever IDE you choose?
- Does the manual SDK setup still work by our instructions?
3. Easy to find examples. Like off the main website.
-Do we provide simple examples (hello world, basic forms, basic
concepts, states) for different compiled targets (swf, air, native,
FlexJS)?
-Do we have any more advanced examples (client server communication,
advanced event handling, promises)?
-Are the video's we have too old or are they still valid?
-Do we need a new video's or a more detailed line of them?
It is the holiday time period and everyone is busy, so I image this
email chain to take a while. No rush and no worries.
-Mark
