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Anonymous
October 22, 2009
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I am so new. Looking for best place to start.

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Greetings, I have downloaded and installed CF 9 and CF Builder. Started the lynda.com tutorials. Cannot find CF 9 books at Safari or amazon.com. I can spend hours learning CF and am willing to. Where is the best place to start? My thanks.

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Correct answer Dan_Bracuk

Coldfusion is often used in conjuction with databases.  Knowing how to design and query a database is just as important, if not more so, than learning coldfusion.  To that end, I have heard good things about the books, Database Design for Mere Mortals, and Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes.  Studying those books will kill some time while CF 9 books are being written.

If you have never programmed before, you'll have to learn the fundamentals of programming.  This include if/else logic and looping.  You can do that with coldfusion.  I'll start you off with my most important fundamental.  Know what your code is supposed to accomplish before you start writing it.

If you don't know html, you'll have to learn that also.  http://www.htmlgoodies.com/ is as good a site as any for that.

Good luck.

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Dan_Bracuk
Inspiring
October 22, 2009

The best place to start depends on what you already know how to do.  Can you already program in another language?  What do you know about data modelling and sql?

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Anonymous
October 22, 2009

Hi Dan. I am a tabula rasa. I know nothing.

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Dan_BracukCorrect answer
Inspiring
October 22, 2009

Coldfusion is often used in conjuction with databases.  Knowing how to design and query a database is just as important, if not more so, than learning coldfusion.  To that end, I have heard good things about the books, Database Design for Mere Mortals, and Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes.  Studying those books will kill some time while CF 9 books are being written.

If you have never programmed before, you'll have to learn the fundamentals of programming.  This include if/else logic and looping.  You can do that with coldfusion.  I'll start you off with my most important fundamental.  Know what your code is supposed to accomplish before you start writing it.

If you don't know html, you'll have to learn that also.  http://www.htmlgoodies.com/ is as good a site as any for that.

Good luck.

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Adam Cameron.
Inspiring
October 22, 2009

The CF9 docs are online here:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/index.html

Unfortunately they are excrutiatingly slow to load.

I recommend reading these sections, in this order:

Installing:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Installing/index.html

Developing:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/index.html

First six sections.

Reference:

Breeze through the tag and function reference (don't try to remember it all, just get a feel for what's possible):

Tags:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec17576-7ffe.html

Functions:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7ff8.html

That should get you started.

There are some very good CF blogs out there.  The best ones for newbies are probably Ben Nadel (http://www.bennadel.com/index.cfm) and Ray Camden (http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/).

And, of course, you can ask questions here.

--

Adam

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Anonymous
October 22, 2009

Adam, thank you so much for the response. I will be working down your list today.

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