Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: Macromedia Flash MX Advanced for Windows and Macintosh Visual QuickPro Guide by Russell Chun ISBN: 0-201-75846-6 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.89 (9 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: OK...Cool - but???
Comment: I am about done with all of the examples in this book...and...Yeah it's definitely a mixed bag on this one! Overall, this is a good book for coders wanting to move from basic AS (gotoAndPlay(etc..);) - to "real" coding (streaming MP3's with volume and balance controls). But...man is this book inconsistent! For one example the author will have you place the code for a function for a button on the first frame of the main timeline - where it should be "per Mr. Moock" - then in the next example he'll tell you to place a function directly on a button itself. Huh? And speaking of the MP3 player - why do you need to write a fully "OOP-compliant" volume control when nothing else in the book even metions OOP? I replaced 5 lines of code for that little sucker with 1 line of code.
That said, however, I haven't had any problems with the example code in the book (other than my own typos and brain cramps - but that's my own problem). As for the CD I ignored it as usual. I always make my own graphics and type every example in a book myself, even if only to learn my own "favorite mistakes."
I would highly recommend this book if you use it along with Colin Moock's AS book. This book has what his lacks - lots of simple straightforward coding examples. I only got through half of Moock's book before I started "Flash Advanced" (all theory and no application is, well, pretty pointless) - but the half I read of Moock's book has allowed me to make sense of the scattershot approach of this book (and to recode all the examples so that they can be placed on the main timeline where they belong). I have since bought, and begun, the Actionscript Cookbook, and that book would seem a logical next step - the final section of it builds full applications.
Bottom line: Hey - no book is perfect. This is an OK book for intermediate coders that is dying to be a great book. Is there an editor in the house???
Rating: 4
Summary: excellent and very practical, readable
Comment: I've begun working with this book recently .. overall it's well written and immediately starts with a decent set of advanced masking and other step by step easy to follow examples. No filler or fluff, this is a solid book that I like along w/ the 'bible' flash mx and phil kerman ones. worth getting, one of the few.
Rating: 1
Summary: I agree with the 1-star reviewers
Comment: Read their reviews. I skipped ahead and wanted to learn "Chapter 6: Managing Outside Communication", and I found details left out in the two examples that I looked at but now I'm skeptical about the rest of the book. I bought this book hoping to learn some advanced features but in the end, I'm returning it. Not surprisingly, I see a lot of other people selling their edition which tells you that something's wrong.
 |
Title: Macromedia Flash MX for Windows and Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide) by Katherine Ulrich ISBN: 0201794810 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 30 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
 |
Title: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX for Windows and Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide) by J. Tarin Towers ISBN: 0201844451 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 22 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
 |
Title: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide by J. Tarin Towers, Abie Hadjitarkhani, Sasha Magee ISBN: 0321159462 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 13 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
 |
Title: ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition by Colin Moock ISBN: 059600396X Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 19 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
 |
Title: Advanced Macromedia Flash MX: ActionScript in Action (2nd Edition) by Dan Livingston, Carlos Justiniano ISBN: 0130384607 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
