How much time to be AS-pro

[TFatality]

Myself being a newb was wondering about how much time has it taken some of the forum ppl to become AS-pros. I'm trying to learn off this site and I've done most of the Beginner tutes except the cut and paste ones...

Also since I'm still @ skool I'm wondering how far can learning AS take you in terms of a career path.

Ty

[Colin Campbell]

I still don't consider myself an "AS pro" after about a year working with actionscript. It depends on how you define pro though, I know most of the coding and their meanings, and I know how to apply them. The difference between myself, and say, Senocular or CyanBlue (a couple of our resident Actionscript Superheros) is they know how to apply the code better in different situations. *but I doubt I will ever reach their level* Basically, practice makes perfect, and I highly doubt I will ever reach a status of "pro", but then again, I'm not ruling it out, I still got some years ahead of me.

[McGiver]

If you really want to make profit out of your work, you'll need three or four years permanent practice at least.
+you need designskills

I had ~18 month of flash experience, and I think I can do quite good actionscript footers, but that's it. My sites look miserable bad.

[petefs]

pro is such a loaded term ^_^

professional as a word really only means that you do something as a profession. If you make money for writing AS you're a professional. In my case that means I'm an AS pro. I've been using AS since Flash 5, which was released in (I believe?) 2001. But I had been coding for some time before that. I'm also a designer and have database, php, html, js as part of my job description. I'm also an avid certified video&film editor... so who knows, maybe I wouldn't have this job without the other stuff :P

Now maybe you mean an AS guru/expert : ) Most people will never be an AS guru/expert. That, to me, involves pushing AS to places that other people haven't taken it. I don't consider myself one, although I hope to be soon :b. I consider people like Senocular, Sephiroth, and Guy Watson Actionscript gurus. That involves as many years as it takes you to learn everything that everybody else is doing and then start doing something new!

Either way, stick to it if you love it, loving it is all it will take to get there... assuming that love to you means working hard at it ^_^

[CyanBlue]

Thanks, Colin, but I don't deserve that... I am happy for what I am... But I DO know that there is big huge thick(I am not advertising viagra here) barrier that I cannot climb over when I see some of the codes that 'pretend to be people' created... (I cannot even name them... ;))

I have been working on Flash for about four years and I have used Director about 3-4 years before that... I do make living doing Flash programming ONLY, but I do not think I am any near the people who can be called 'Guru' or 'Expert'...

Hey, TFatality... Don't be too anxious... It all depends on how much time and effort you put into as it is the same as other things... You will get what you pay for... You spend more time reading and learning what's going on and why things are working in that order and stuff, you will be proficient in ActionScript in no time... :)

[farafiro]

just like Cyan's (well, almost exactly)
more time + practice = more knowledge
extra time + practice = little tycoon ;)

[TFatality]

yea by pro i mean like a guru...the term slipped my mind wen i posted the thread. But anyhow take care of me :cool:

[pom]

Well, just look at how few (real) Gurus there are out there, and I think you'll figure it out by yourself :)

[sneeuwitje]

why want to be a 'guru' at all ...? seems a strange target to me, as it's in the beholder's eye ... i think i'll never get there, but do get what i like done with what i know ... if not, i find a way to there, or around it ;) ... if somewhere along the road, that would make other people see me as a 'guru', it would hardly increase my sense of well-being.
Also heard it can be awfully lonesome at the top ... i mean: who does a 'guru' go to for answers , Superguru, Spiderguru ... Captain Invincible ...?

[McGiver]

A guru knows the answer before the question occurs!
and to your future questions...
yes,
no,
no,
yes,
of course!

:D

[farafiro]

A guru knows the answer before the question occurs!
and to your future questions...
yes,
no,
no,
yes,
of course!

:D
heheheheeeeeeeee
okey mr. god
:p

[pom]

Also heard it can be awfully lonesome at the top ... i mean: who does a 'guru' go to for answers , Superguru, Spiderguru ... Captain Invincible ...?They register @ flashcoders (Branden Hall's secret identity is Professor Xavier, in case you didn't know...)

[sneeuwitje]

A guru knows the answer before the question occurs!:eek:
glad to know someone else here read "Budism made easy 2.0" ;)

[sneeuwitje]

in case you didn't know... i didn't, but then: do i need to? :D

EDIT: *dumb* indeed