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Summary: The Best Book to Learn Actionscript!
Review: Before I bought this book, I only know a little about programming and knew only the basic stuff in Flash: tweening, point a to b animation, etc. Wanting to go to the next level, I bought this book. I never look back since. What makes this book perfect to learn actionscript, in my opinion, is that every line of code is always explained clearly and thoroughly in lay man's term. This book is written in such a way that as if the author's are there with you. By the time you finish reading this book, you'll be more than ready to make your own applications.
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Summary: Finally a Developer who can teach!
Review: I do a lot of advanced ActionScripting and development, but I have had a lot of holes missing and things that I did not quite understand. This book fills in the gaps that are left out with other Flash books. This book explains the process and programming in a complete and easy to understand fashion. This books shows and explains the how and the why. This is a great book, even if you are more advanced with ActionScript, you'll find yourself understanding more about it and new ways to develop and program your Flash development projects.
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Summary: Great book
Review: This is a book that caters for beginners to Flash, more advanced Flash 5 authors and everybody in between equally well and was just what I needed to make everything I knew about Flash coalesce. It offers clear, concise explanations on just about everything you need to know from simple topics such as creating a tween, to more advanced methods like using the XML objects. Each subject is covered in depth, avoids fatuous condescension and is presented in an interesting manner. The authors, particularly Derek Franklin, clearly love their subject and this comes over as infectious, imbuing the reader with a similar enthusiasm. This is not an ActionScript reference - there is a superb reference available from another author - but does not pretend to be. Instead, it tries and succeeds in painting a picture to illustrate the practicalities of using the wealth of features available within ActionScript, which is now beginning to look like a REAL programming language. But the best of all is this: If you have a problem, you can go to the web-site of one of the authors, (I won't say which one) and he might just be persuaded to help you find an answer... Thoroughly recommended.
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