Learn to program for the Blackberry Playbook with code samples. Intro.

I’m trying to teach myself ActionScript to be able to develop applications for the Blackberry Playbook.
After a bit of a false start when I was tried jumping in at the deep end and trying to pull information out of a SQL Lite database, I decided that I should probably stop, go back to the beginning and start with something simple, and then and work my way up.
I decided that as I went I would share my little code sample with everyone in a series of posts in case they help out someone else also.
Here’s what you need to follow along:

• Adobe AIR SDK 2.5
• The Blackberry Tablet OS SDK
• Flash Develop
• The BlackBerry Playbook FlashDevelop template
• The Blackberry Playbook simulator

Install them in the order listed above. You also need to add the path to the Tablet OS SDK into your systems PATH environment variable.