Hello All,
I'm currently working on a
PureMVC Architecture 101 Course, and will soon be looking for interested participants in the process of testing and evaluating the overall courseware structure and effectiveness.
I've delivered extemporaneous multi-day training on Cairngorm, and I've been teaching Flex as an Adobe/Macromedia Certified Instructor since 1.5, and have had a lot of time to observe and think about courseware content, layout and delivery.
I've also felt that the thing that is missing after teaching a week of F2RCA (
http://www.adobe.com/support/training/instructor_led_curriculum/flex2_rca.html ) and F2DC (
http://www.adobe.com/support/training/instructor_led_curriculum/flex2_data_com.html ) or F2BDA (
http://www.adobe.com/support/training/instructor_led_curriculum/flex2_dashboard.html ) is Architecture.
Students come out of these classes, very well aquainted what Flex can do, and ready to build, but without a lot of direction in terms of architecture. I usually point people to the best design pattern books and sites that I know and offer to help with architecture if they need it.
But I think they'd be better served to have their top folks on the project sit through at least a 2 or 3 day structured architecture course in addition to the more development focused courses.
Recently while pondering next steps with PureMVC, I realized that courseware was the best way to proceed. I feel we need simpler examples, and a bunch of 'Hello World's are great for bitesized granularity, but won't really give you the big picture unless they fall within some ordered context.
Fortunately,
Implementation Idioms had already layed out a logical way of unfolding the PureMVC design, but was entirely narrative.
With
Architecture 101 the overall structure is similar, except there is much less narrative and much more hands on. Units cover the major actors in the applications you will write. There is some preamble to frame the Unit, but quickly it moves to the Labs, each of which has several learning points to be taken away and we set about absorbing them in the Steps for the Lab.
The courseware has a Lab project which you are modifying and a Solution project that you can refer to if you get stuck, though the Student Manual summarizes changes clearly and often.
If this sounds to you like a good way to learn PureMVC, and you'd like to get a first look at it when it is ready for testing, email me at cliff at puremvc dot org.
For businesses, FutureScale will also be offering
PureMVC Architecture 101 as onsite instructor-led training in addition to the already available Adobe Flex training.
