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Summary: Great resource for the intended audience
Comment: Do not attempt to be able to learn from this book without first knowing how to create Flash documents. Of course, you should also know how to program (logic can't be taught) and JavaScript seems to be very similar to ActionScript (although knowing any object-oriented language and event-driven programming will suffice).
This book does what it sets out to do, which is to get you familiarized with ActionScript. Its explanation on creating empty movies and ordering of layers (which during the runtime don't actually exist) was not as good as other references but overall, an excellent reference book.
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Summary: *Snore*
Comment: What a horrible introduction to such a great programming language. I lost all motivation to learn anything about ActionScript after trying to stay awake for a couple of hours. Not good for those using Flash for artistic purposes. Maybe good for programmers who just need a reference. I've had good teachers, and bad teachers. This one puts you in a coma due to a lack any type of human emotion or social skills. If you have spent your life in front of a computer, not communicating with anyone other than your 10th level paladin/wizard and his cohort of wood nymphs, this book is for you!
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Summary: Perfect
Comment: If you are familiar with flash and/or programming at all then this book is for you. Together with the online Flash documentation from Adobe's website, I can find out how to do anything I want to. The book gives great examples of everything that it discusses. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to make killer Flash content.
It's true that it requires a little bit of programming background to understand what this book is saying sometimes but let me emphasize that it takes minimal experience.
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Summary: Good if you know what your doing
Comment: If your looking for answers on action script and how to easily implement it to flash this is not the book for you. This book gives a good explanation of coding and goes through all forms and ways of coding. I have only made it partially through the book but until i get much further i feel i will just stay confused.
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Summary: Geek squad alert
Comment: Not a book to use if you are casually familiar with Action Scripting, or have only used Action Script in 5 or MX. Almost all examples are functions or object oriented programming, without a layman's definition of what either is. Good reference if you know of a human being or online chat that can explain things to you. Once I become more expert at scripting, this will probably be a good reference book, but by that time we'll have Flash 9 or 10, and all will be moot.
Good reference/learning tool if you lock yourself away in a remote cabin and eat sleep and breath Flash for 4 days.
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