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Title: ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition by Colin Moock ISBN: 0-596-00396-X Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 19 December, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.65 (26 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An obvious purchase
Comment: This book is primarily an obvious purchase because of the extremely cretinous policy driving Macromedia's manual publications. Much of what is in this book belongs in Macromedia documentation.
Like all reference texts (really dictonaries for language learners) this book is not for beginners. Unless you have some experience with program design, you are unlikely to learn how to assemble even a reasonable suite of code from the text. That's not a criticsm of the text - it just isn't written for that market.
Almost every language construct gets a piece of exemplar code to illustrate calls and side effects. Even the OO side of things, such as it is in Actionscript, gets played out.
This is a fine book and the sheer labour involved in fiddling with every function is a credit to the author's resilience.
If you are actually programming in Actionscript rather than merely mooning over the nice Flash UI, then this book will be very useful.
Rating: 5
Summary: A needle in the haystack?
Comment: This book is a gem. For new-to-programming or experienced programmer alike, this book will be undeniably useful.
Colin teaches you how to program in Actionscript. Infact, little in this book can be simply copy and pasted into your project... That's the beauty!
Unique flash solutions as with anything, created by fresh, intelegent minds with an appreciation of the tools they have to work with. Colin teaches you the subtle aspects of Macromedia Flash and it's powerful scripting language.
He uses generic programming terminology and introduces and explains them for the new programmer. This is very, very important for new programmers who wish to move themselves at some point across to another language.
Since leanrning Actionscript with Colin (Beginning of 2003) I have moved into learning PHP/MySQL. And thanks to Colin I can happily browse through the functions list or the language reference and have a pretty good idea what I'm reading.
Not for the unthinking-quickdraw type, this book is for thinkers and I give it 110% for optimising the time you spend reading/studying it vs. the results you get.
As for myself, productivity on generic flash websites has doubled, and the quality of the websites has also. Actionscript is developing with each release of Flash and will turn from being a designers-only tool to a programmers-who-can-design tool.
So all you designers out there - get studying!
Rating: 5
Summary: Great bookfor even younger Flash developers
Comment: I would just like to say, this book is great. I am almost brand new to Flash, and I'm fourteen. This book covers all aspects of Web design, including some implementation of basic HTML into Flash, communication with Server-side scripts, such as PHP or CGI, and the reference is awesome. It gives detailed examples of every function, and really helps if you want to get to know how to do something, fast. I have been recommending this book to a friend of mine, who is a more experienced programmer than me, and who recently bought Flash MX 2k4 Pro. I recommend it to you, to, if you are interested in programming Flash MX.
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Title: Object-Oriented Programming with ActionScript by Branden Hall, Samuel Wan ISBN: 0735711836 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 13 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: ActionScript Cookbook by Joey Lott ISBN: 0596004907 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Macromedia Flash MX ActionScripting: Advanced Training from the Source by Derek Franklin, Jobe Makar ISBN: 0201770229 Publisher: Macromedia Press Pub. Date: 24 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Macromedia Flash MX Game Design Demystified by Jobe Makar ISBN: 0201770210 Publisher: Macromedia Press Pub. Date: 09 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Macromedia Flash MX Designer's ActionScript Reference by John Davey, Glen Rhodes, Jen DeHaan, Scott Mebberson, Sham Bhangal ISBN: 1590591658 Publisher: APress Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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