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Title: Foundation Flash 5 by Sham Bhangal ISBN: 1-903450-31-4 Publisher: Pub Resource Pub. Date: November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.48 (89 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The best intro Flash 5 book I've seen, but with a few flaws
Comment: If you want to learn Flash 5 from scratch this is a great book, depending on what you expect. I have a multitude of Flash 4 & 5 books, and the biggest problem with most of them is that they fall into 2 categories:
1) The "Reference" book style; - All the features of the program are explained without much guidance towards how to actually start and finish a project. These books are good once you know the program to refer back to. Examples: "The Flash 5 Bible", "Flash 5 Visual Quickstart", "Flash 5 Creative Web Animation".
2)The "Project" book style; - The book attempts to teach you how the program works by having you start & finish a project or projects. Unfortunately most of these books don't thoroughly explain "why" you are doing what you are doing. Also, you must blindly follow along, hoping that the skills you are learning can apply to your own individual needs. Many times the "project" is something you will never use. Examples: "Flash Web Design, V5 Remix"- Hillman Curtis, "Flash 5 Magic".
"Foundation Flash 5" is good because it is a "project" based book, and assumes you know nothing about the program, and teaches you by example, holding your hand throughout a handful of little projects and one big one. The author Sham Bhangal does a very respectable job of explaining "why" you are doing what you are doing. Beware, as some readers have pointed out, as there are quite a few errors and typos marring this otherwise excellent book. Most of them are explained on their website. I had to contact them via email twice and both times they got back to me within a week. Not great, but at least you can contact the authors and they do get back to you. Also, there are two main chapters on ActionScript, and one of them teaches you by having you design a "card game". Personally, I have no desire to design games, so I wish they would have chosen a more "universal" example to illustrate the same or other ActionScript features. ActionScript is vast enough to have included some more "mainstream" uses. I don't feel that my knowledge of ActionScript is at the level that they would have you believe it will be at. But that is what "Foundation ActionScript" is for, which I am reading now. But overall, this is book was well worth the time spent, and I haven't seen a better intro to intermediate Flash 5 book so far. Recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: Learn Flash 5? Look no further!!
Comment: As a relative newcomer to Macromedia Products and charged with creating a commercial web site, I was quite daunted having seen the flash work area and interface. This book allays all your fears and helps you to build a comprehensive and clear understanding of this wonderful web animation program. By arranging tutorials through out you learn all the basics, from here, you build on this, develop and gain confidence allowing your sense of creativity to flourish. In my experience, there are very few computer books that guide you through the learning process and make it enjoyable. To the authors WELL DONE!! I look forward to reading and learning from Foundation Actionscript.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good starting point.
Comment: This book is not a reference to flash 5.
This book goes through step by step how to make flash movies from the ground up. It assumes nothing; which is great for most beginners.
I was definitly not a beginner when i bought the book. (i got it at the time of release because it was hyped up quite a bit).
At the time i understood, and fast tracked through it to get at the good stuff to find out that it never really got any "great" stuff. Some of the examples are done very well, and are great in the tutorial sense, but i was disapointed that i didn't learn anything new. (or little).
This is flash 5. You could learn flash just as well with tutorials online at any of the bigger flash websites. If you're new to flash: this is a great start. But if you have the least bit of flash knowledge then i can see someone getting bored with this qucikly.
Bottom line:
Great place to start. Not a reference by any means. Remember its flash 5. Flash MX is out, and much more fun than flash 5.
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Title: Foundation Photoshop 6.0 by Colin Smith, Al Ward, Vicki Loader, Marilene Oliver, Sham Bhangal ISBN: 1903450667 Publisher: friends of Ed Pub. Date: 22 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Foundation ActionScript by Sham Bhangal ISBN: 1903450322 Publisher: friends of Ed Pub. Date: 20 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Flash 5 Studio with CD-ROM by Sham Bhangal, Peter Holm, Nikhil Adnani ISBN: 1903450306 Publisher: friends of Ed Pub. Date: 16 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity by Jakob Nielsen ISBN: 156205810X Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 20 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Flash 5 Magic: With ActionScript by Scott Hamlin, David J. Emberton, J. Scott Hamlin ISBN: 0735710236 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 10 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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