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Summary: Don't Buy (or even steal) This Book
Comment: This book may be an adequate (barely) text in a classroom environment, but in either a self-learning, or on-line environment it is next to useless. The exercises are pure "cook book" instructions (do this/do that), with little or no explanation of the underlying rationale. Even after doing all of the exercises in the book, I feel I have no real grasp of how Flash works.
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Summary: Prepared lessons, not consistent
Comment: I'd gotten as far through the book as I could where things had worked, and worked fairly; lessons 1-4. Then with lesson 5, different story.
It would seem with what most of what the book instructs the user to do, enough attention to detail was not paid to the #5 working sample: The book takes the user through the steps like he's supposed to be in the driver's seat, hence really learning by doing. But, the animation may not have been 'stripped' of it's finishing steps that it instructs the user to do--they're already done. This was inconsistent with the previous lessons, which had all left enough steps to do from "scratch", as the book guides you through. At one point, I noticed it got a little careless about some of the instruction in that same problematic lesson, and I found that doing one of the steps was literally not possible--and no other details for it were given. It drove me elsewhere to get answers. Extremely frustrating!!
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Summary: NOT RECOMMENDED. This book is a waste of time. I'm really disappointed our Instructor chose it
Comment: This book is absolutely horrible. Anyone can point, click and import graphics, etc., but you don't learn any skills you can walk away with except that Flash is based on a timeline and layers. You spend hours wondering if you're doing it right. The book lacks details. It was an absolutely horrible choice for our class. The instructor is way behind in posting the videos to complete the lessons too so that makes our class even more frustrating. The lessons are pretty easy if you are able to watch the instructor's video first but we don't have that luxury because apparently the instructor is also struggling with this lame book. The book also leaves out important details and shortcuts. I absolutely hate it and am very disappointed that this book is published under Adobe's name. I'm disappointed that Macromedia sold Dreamweaver and Flash to Adobe because Adobe has absolutely dropped the ball on support for these products for new users.
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Summary: Run away from this one
Comment: This book violates one of the most basic rules of effective instruction: don't say what to do without saying why. If you are new to Flash, you will be in for a frustrating time, (and you will probably end up hating
Flash or looking for another book, as I am doing.) If you follow each instruction VERY CAREFULLY you MAY complete the excercise with success...but you won't remember any of it in a useful way. As a former educator myself, I would never recommend this volume to any but my worst enemies.
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Summary: wonderful book for beginners
Comment: I started from scratch to learn Flash with this book. At first I was worried whether I could learn something in Flash. Yes, absolutely I did. Explains every step in detail, there is no possibility to miss something. it's been just 1 week and I've almost finished this book.
only thing that you should be aware of is that you'll need to buy another book to specialize in Flash cs3, like an actionscript book.
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