Flex 2 Training From the Source

After being left very satisfied with the content and format of the Getting Started with Flex 2 book that came with Flex Builder I was also left wanting for a little more in-depth instruction. So I did a bit of research and because Flex is a young language not many books have been published yet on the topic, but one book that promised to be in a similar format to the first guide was "Adobe Flex 2: Training from the Source"

This book which was normal computer book length of 600 pages walks through the creation of a flex-based online grocery store. The book has tons of great tutorials and real examples and like all my favorite programming books it includes a cd full of all the source used in the examples, as well as start files and complete files for each chapter. While all the chapters were relevant and had to be read to understand completely the final project.

Some of the most interesting chapters for me included:
Ch5 Handling Events & Data structures
Ch6 Using remote XML Data with Controls
Ch8 Using Controls and Repeaters with Data Sets
Ch10 Creating Custom Components with ActionScript 3.0
Ch11 Using DataGrids and ItemRenderers
Ch12 Using Drag and Drop
Ch14 Using Formatters and Validators
Ch15 Using the History Manager
Ch16 Customizing the Look and Feel of a Flex Application
Ch18 Charting Data
Ch20 Pusing Data with Adobe Flex Data Services
Ch22 Creating Transitions and Behaviors
Ch23 Printing From Flex
Ch24 Using Shared Objects (Flash's version of cookies)

I'm almost finished with the book and have practiced every chapter that I thought was super interesting using their code and sometimes adding my own. When I have this project totally finished I will post a link to it on the blog so you can see it in action.