Flash 5 Advanced for Windows and Macintosh Visual QuickPro Guide (With CD-ROM)

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Summary: A great companion book to the Quick Start Guide to Flash 5
Review: This is a great book for those who want advanced flash techniques and skills. I'd buy both the beginner flash book and this one together. When you are done with this book, you'll know the in's and out's of flash and be able to put your flash movies to useful work. This book focuses on the action scripts and advanced movies. I would highly recommend this book.

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Summary: Lots of tricks
Review: This is an excellent book. It covers several difficult concepts in a very clear and consice manner. The topics I found most useful were: Detemining angles with atan2(), working with Math methods, using external .txt/html files and a host of others. I would (and have) recommend this book to anyway who has completed the standard "here is how you use the tools... this is called the paint bucket" sort of books and wants to get serious about their actionscripting. I would HIGHLY recommend purchasing this book before tackling "Flash 5 Magic - Actionscript".

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Summary: Some great stuff in here
Review: Too much to say, but this writing helps you incorporate Quicktime, 3d, actionscript, and many other aspects of flash. It's a great book which covers many topics briefly. You get a book like this to see what it interests you most about software, and buy more specific, in-depth books to follow up. It's also a great reference.