Macromedia Flash MX Unleashed

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Summary: Matthew Pizzi Did An Awesome Job **********
Review: This book is defintely very informative, and has helped me out a lot using this program. It is detailed just enough and it blew me away. I would defintely recommend this book to anyone who is interested in Flash. Matthew Pizzi is awesome, and so are the others involved with the making of this book. Hope to see more books out there like this very soon. Good Job!!!!

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Summary: Worth Every Penny
Review: This is a great book filled with no-nonsense information. What I like about this Unleashed book in comparison to other series is it doesn't fill space about other topics other than Flash.
The step-by-step examples in this book are killer, if you need to learn ActionScript than this is the book!...
If you're new to Flash I would still consider this because some of the earlier chapters lay a great foundation - and if you're more advanced there's some great web-app features in this book, including a game chapter.
As with every book, there are a few draw backs. I was disappointed to see the drawing API wasn't covered and I wish it came with a CD-ROM instead of a web site. Still worthy of 5 stars due to the strong content in the rest of the book.

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Summary: Great book
Review: This is definitely a great and informative book written by masters in the subject. However the website leaves much to be desired. Well worth the money.

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Summary: Letter to Sams Publishing
Review: This is to inform you that I will never buy another book from Sams! You really should be ashamed of yourselves for releasing such a poorly edited piece of garbage with your name attached. This is particularly unfortunate because the authors have presented a fairly comprehensive review of the capabilities of Flash Mx and Flash Actionscripting. However, because of the outrageous number of errors, both in the book and on the accompanying web site, it it difficult to follow and complete far too many of the exercises. I wish I had a dollar for every hour I have wasted because of this book - going down blind alleys, barking up the wrong tree, chasing ghosts, etc. Lord, how frustrating!

Thank you,

A former customer