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Summary: A Really Bad book
Review: I can't tell you how bad this book was, if you're looking foreward to learning flash mx 2004, stay away from this book. Instead buy the marvelous and incredibly well-structured HANDS-ON FLASH MX 2004 BOOK BY Rosanna Yeung.
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Summary: Flash MX 2004 Magic - Just as the title implies Magic
Review: I loved this book, still working through some of it but every tutorial I have been through so far have enjoyed and fully understood, very well done, there are many flash books on the market, I own a fair few, but this one has been most beneficial, laid out nicley, easy to understand and you can't complain about the price, great tips and great design, especially liked the introductory lesson by Rob Hoekman, if you want to learn something new and take a step towards the next level make sure you buy this book.
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Summary: Excellent resource, great projects
Review: I've been using Flash for years, but I can always get great information from Flash Magic. Where else do you get to see how to build projects created by some of the best developers in the business?There are 12 projects in this book - all built by experienced developers that use Flash constantly to do amazing things. This book highlights a lot of the new features in Flash MX 2004 and offers people that have mastered the basics a way to step up their skill level. I started reading this series of books with Flash 5 Magic, and it's never failed me. I always learn something new and end up with a cool project. Read a hundred books if you want, just make sure this is one of them.
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Summary: Shouldn't name this Flash MX 2004 Magic
Review: Shouldn't call this book a "Flash MX 2004 Magic" because the most of the code (I'd say 85%) in there are just AS1 (not mention that some of their codes are sloppy) They don't even deal with any special feature comes with MX 2004 at all, like create V2 component. I can say most of the project in there can be done with Flash MX (except the chapter about JSFL project, but for that, you can find a better tutorial online than reading that chapter)
I did not read this book at all, bought it new, glanced thru it within an hour and never touch it again. If you are just a little more than a beginer then this book is right for you. If you are an AS coder, or been playing with Flash since version 5 or MX then forget about this one. If you live in Virginia, contact me, I let you borrow this book for a couple ...years.
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Summary: Good projects - weak instruction
Review: The strength of this book is the 12 projects. They are imaginative and use many of the new features of Flash MX 2004. The projects have good graphics and text and video; and the screen shots are works of art. If what you want are ideas this is a perfect book. If you actually want to build these projects yourself, the authors have left a lot out. In particular, there is not a lot of rationale as to why you are doing certain things. That is, unless you know a lot of Flash, the instructions, while easy to follow if you just type the code, will seem bewildering. There needs to be more explanation, of what is behind the code constructs, not just the code itself.
A number of the "final" versions of the project did not work well.
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