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A Beginner's Guide
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If you're new to ActionScript 3.0, or want to enhance your skill set, this bestselling book is the ideal guide. Designers, developers, and programmers alike will find Learning ActionScript 3.0 invaluable for navigating ActionScript 3.0's learning curve. You'll learn the language by getting a clear look at essential topics such as logic, event handling, displaying content, classes, and much more.
Updated for Flash Professional CS5, this revised and expanded edition delivers hands-on exercises and full-color code samples to help you increase your abilities as you progress through the book. Topics are introduced with basic syntax and class-based examples, so you can set your own pace for learning object-oriented programming.
- Harness the power and performance of ActionScript 3.0
- Control sound and video, including new access to microphone data
- Create art with code by drawing vectors and pixels at runtime
- Manipulate text with unprecedented typographic control
- Animate graphics, create particle systems, and apply simple physics
- Avoid common coding mistakes and reuse code for improved productivity
- Load SWF, image, text, HTML, CSS, and XML file formats, and more
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Gald to be Reading but a typo confused me...
3 July 2011
Format:Paperback
I'm glad to be learning from this book! However, I was unable to understand how a function never defined was being called (on page 47) and it turned out to be a typo/error. I'm new to ActionScript and I'm kind of delighted that I identified it as a mistake and verified that to be true... otherwise I would not have been able to make sense out of the situation. For people following along with the examples they would have caught it sooner, but I'm just reading through.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Poor quality and editing
26 Feb 2012
Format:Paperback
I was checking this book out for a class I'm teaching and the first time I opened it the cover came unglued. Never a good sign.
As I was reading along I got to page 47 and there is a code sample with a mistake in it. For readers like my students who are new to the subject this can be a real problem. For people trying to learn on their own this kind of error can kill confidence and prevent them from continuing.
You might be thinking a 1 star is too harsh but problems in quality and editing for a book of this type are unacceptable in my mind. Bottom line is a book shouldn't fall apart the first time you open it and the code samples should work...period.
As I was reading along I got to page 47 and there is a code sample with a mistake in it. For readers like my students who are new to the subject this can be a real problem. For people trying to learn on their own this kind of error can kill confidence and prevent them from continuing.
You might be thinking a 1 star is too harsh but problems in quality and editing for a book of this type are unacceptable in my mind. Bottom line is a book shouldn't fall apart the first time you open it and the code samples should work...period.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Excellent Resource for Learning AS 3.0
5 Aug 2011
Format:Paperback
I'm currently on a mission to build an efficient AS flash website, and this book has been the most helpful by far for helping me on my quest. Before this book, I struggled through spotty references and pulled my hair out while waiting to get responses to my questions that were posted via online forums. I now have it sitting on my desk and it is filled with post-it notes, highlights and dog-eared pages. Everything flows in a logical order, yet you can still flip to different chapters to follow different exercises and not get lost. I especially love the downloaded examples and lessons... there is no greater way to learn. A quote by Lee Brimlow on the cover states that this book is "The best ActionScript book ever written," and I think that pretty much sums it up. Great job Rick and Zevan!
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