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Here’s five reasons LearnToProgram.TV believes that you should be using Flex.

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Finding the right team to train your developers can be a difficult task. The stakes are high! Training is time-consuming, expensive and even disruptive. However training is often not a luxury– It’s a necessity. The technical environment within which developers work is constantly changing. New software development kits are being released constantly. Operating systems are changing and the demands of clients are ever increasing. Training may be required to help your developers finish a project, change to a new platform, or even simply to keep up with the competition.

LearnToProgram.TV offers a unique approach to instructor led training. While you will find many training companies offer canned curriculum that are designed to be one-size-fits-all, LearnToProgram.TV offers customized courses that are guaranteed to meet your needs. We are not certification based. In fact, we offer no courses that lead to certifications at all– Instead, we train developers to solve the actual problems they will encounter in a production environment. For example, in our customized Adobe Flex Training Classes we often have participants build full streaming multimedia applications that are often part of the rich interfaces that Flex is known for helping create. In our Java classes, instead of just learning the basics of socket programming, training participants create an instant messenger with a Graphical User Interface that communicates across the classroom local area network.

We seek to provide not only customization, but also value. With competitive instructional fees, high levels of customization, and an award winning instructional team you can’t go wrong with LearnToProgram.TV. We’re so convinced that you’ll find the training we provide satifactory that we guarantee it!

If you’re looking to take programming exams and hang certifications on your wall– Look elsewhere! If you’re trying to put together a development team that can get the job done, on time and within budget, every time, contact us. We’d be happy to show you how we’d customize training for your team.

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Learning to Program is easy if you study code others have written. This entry includes two sample programs…

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This is the third video (in two parts) in the C Programming series. This particular series when finished will take the viewer from basic C all the way to creating simple games in C on the GameBoy Advance platform. While not a current platform it does give a really great introduction in to handheld game [...]

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I am always touched when students in my training sessions write something nice about me in the class evaluations. This past week I taught a beginning/advanced Java class in Washington DC for Westlake Training.

This was one of those classes where the participants and I really hit it off. Here’s what they had to say:

“I enjoyed the Instructor, he was engaging and made the course material easy to understand. I felt like I was able to cover a lot but that we never moved on until I understood the material. Also, since the class lasts for 8 hours, it helped that he had a lot of interesting sidebars to keep it interesting.”

“I really liked the 80s power ballads! I also liked the pace of the class, and how it was tailored to fit the needs of the students in the class. Mark made an extra effort to veer off topic to cover other useful material that our class needed wasn’t on the schedule, and I think that the class appreciated that.”

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I am pleased to provide this video preview of the upcoming series: Creating an Mp3 Player with Actionscript 3.0. If you’ve ever wanted to dive deeper in to Actionscript 3.0, this video series will be a great way to learn more advanced language constructs, and truly understand Actionscript’s object oriented approach.

This video series will start with creating a very simple MP3 player that just plays a song. As features like volume and pan controls, ID3 tags and a song timer get added you will learn a lot about Actionscript and creating Actionscript based Flash movies.

This video series is appropriate for beginning or intermediate flash users.

This first preview video shows you how to set up your Flash movie and how to use the Sound and URLLoader classes to get your first song to play.

This entire video series will be available soon from LearnToProgram.tv.

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I was please to be invited to speak at eLearning Devcon 2009 in Salt Lake City, Utah. My session on Adobe Flex went very well. I was happy to see the session was well attended and the two hours allotted went very quickly. We covered the basics of the Adobe Flex platform and built three very small applications using Flex Builder.

The audience was mostly non-programmers, however they seemed to adapt to the basic concepts used in the MXML and Actioncscript 3.0 well. I have posted the exercises done during the session here. If you use the exercise files you must use the import command in Flex to import the entire project folder. You will then be able to open the source file which contains the MXML and the Actionscript code

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This tutorial will take you through creating your first application with Adobe Flex. Adobe Flex is a great environment for creating Rich Internet Applications. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to write both some MXML code and some Actionscript code to develop a simple, interactive Flex application. Instructions for downloading your free Flex trial in the tutorial

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This C Programming Tutorial will guide you through using variables in the C Programming language. Declaring variables, initializing variables and outputting variables with the printf function are covered.

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Adobe Flex is a platform and you are not required to own the Flex Builder software to use it. The Flex Builder software is, however, highly recommended. The Flex Builder is a modification of the freely available Eclipse IDE. You will need the Flex Builder software for this tutorial.

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