Help me to learn MVC

[Guest]

I’ve been using Flash/ActionScript since the MX days. Unfortunately, I’ve only worked at 2 places in my Flash career, and none of them required the use of MVC, so I never learned it. Right now I’m trying to find something different, but EVERY job opportunity that comes my way requires MVC experience or at least MVC knowledge. I’ve read up on what MVC is and how it works, but I need to actually build something that uses it to fully understand it. Can you suggest any resources (free would be nice) that not only teach you what MVC is, but actually force you to build something using the framework?

On a related note, can someone explain how MVC would be helpful for action/twitch games? From what I can tell, using it could possibly cause input latency because of the extra operations that come between input and what is eventually shown on the screen.

[dmennenoh]

Good question. Where I work we use MVC also, and I'm sure they'd put that you needed to know it, when posting an open developer position. However, for the most part our dev's can build their apps whichever way works for them. Our .net guys prefer Angular for an MVC framework. I myself use my own loose form of MVC that I've developed over the years. I'm also the only Flash dev so nobody really cares as long as my stuff gets done. MVC does not and should not apply to every project. I might tell them in the interview that you indeed know what MVC is but choose not to always use it for just the reasons you describe.

Anyway, that being said if you just Google 'as3 mvc' a lot of stuff comes up including several frameworks and tutorials.