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Title: Flash MX: Advanced ActionScript by James L. Mohler, Nishant Kothary ISBN: 0-7668-2910-3 Publisher: Delmar Learning Pub. Date: 05 August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $47.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book even for beginners
Comment: I'm a beginning flash user, and I picked this book up as a follow up to Mohler's first book. Even though it explores advanced scripting, the explanations are clear enough for beginners like myself to understand. I actually understand OOP because of the great dog class example. There are some really great examples on the cd-rom. It's so helpful to have an actual Flash file to play with, so I can see exactly how it works.
Rating: 4
Summary: Comprehensive but cold
Comment: This is a quite thorough book that picks up where Mohler's intro book leaves off. It's written as if a Flash instructor literally transcribed his class presentations, which is good and bad. Explanations are long, but at times are wordy and dull. It will remind you at times of tedious homework assignments and drills. There is quite a bit of slogging through pages with only two or three long paragraphs with no Flash code. That's not bad, but it's a sign that an editor probably could have tightened up the writing here.
Also, these authors need to lighten up and learn to write! The tone they take is often "academic", with all the snobbiness and overuse of big words and long sentences that comes with that. Often it's clear that one or the other of the two authors has written a particular passage--and there are some awful clunkers there. Better instructors and writers strive for a more human, friendly tone.
Also, there are coding techniques that seem to me not to reflect current or common Flash coding practice, like the frequent use of the eval() function and the set() function (which I've *never* seen other advanced Flash authors use).
One good thing: the two long projects in the book are kind of neat, definately better than in some other big Flash books.
Rating: 5
Summary: outstanding book
Comment: a great book for any flash student with superb examples . a must for anyone connected to computers..
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Title: Flash MX: Graphics, Animation & Interactivity by James L. Mohler ISBN: 0766842061 Publisher: Delmar Publishers Pub. Date: 13 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $43.95 |
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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 |
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Title: Flash MX for Interactive Simulation by Jonathan Kaye, David Castillo ISBN: 1401812910 Publisher: OnWord Press Pub. Date: 18 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
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Title: Macromedia Flash MX ActionScript Bible by Robert Reinhardt, Joey Lott ISBN: 0764536141 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 22 August, 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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