Packtpub.haXe.2.Beginners.Guide.Jul.2011.pdf

haXe 2

Beginner's Guide

Develop exciing applicaions with this muli-plaform

programming language

Benjamin Dasnois

BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

haxe 2

Beginner's Guide

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First published: July 2011

Producion Reference: 1180711

Published by Packt Publishing Ltd.

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ISBN 978-1-849512-56-5

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Cover Image by Asher Wishkerman ( a.wishkerman@mpic.de )

Credits

Author

Benjamin Dasnois

Copy Editor

Neha Shety

Reviewers

Marcus Bergström

Andy Li

Franco Ponicelli

Project Coordinator

Shubhanjan Chaterjee

Proofreader

Lisa Brady

Acquisiion Editor

Dilip Venkatesh

Indexer

Tejal Daruwale

Development Editor

Maitreya Bhakal

Producion Coordinator

ArvindKumar Gupta

Technical Editors

Kavita Iyer

Azharuddin Sheikh

Cover Work

ArvindKumar Gupta

Foreword

Remember the olden days?

I vaguely remember this odd box called a computer gradually conquering corners of my

living room and bedroom. Can you recall those imes? We would "use a computer" for some

speciic tasks, such as wriing a leter.

The term computer was quite popular back then. Now, the word is no longer part of our

acive vocabulary, let alone "use a computer", who says that anymore? Nobody does. That is

because computers are no longer odd boxes in corners. They are the notebooks and mobile

phones that we use every day. They are also the hybrids between the two, such as tablets

and netbooks. They are the servers that run websites we constantly use as well. Even today's

TVs are full-blown computers.

I ind this change fascinaing. I think we live in a very exciing ime to be paricipaing in the

business. All these new devices bring us opportuniies enabling us to express our creaivity,

while their diferences challenge us and keep us invenive.

Unlike PHP or AcionScript, haXe is not designed for one speciic purpose. It is just a

programming language. That is why it is so versaile. Whether it is the hip new phone in the

hands of a Japanese ad girl or a big bulky machine in a server room; whether it has a mouse,

a muli-touch screen, a bendable/deformable interface; or even a mind reading sensor, haXe

can be remixed and used for the device.

This means that you can use the same language and even the same codebase across the

browser and the server part of your project, for example. To me, that is why haXe is so relevant.

Benjamin Dasnois is one of the people that has been around since haXe-day one. He remixes

haXe to make it it new needs. Benjamin is best known within the community for working on

the Java target. (I would also say, that he is second to none for his funny French accent.)

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