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Summary: Yeah, I have to agree. . .
Review: . . this book is so terribly written and edited that it was impossible to begin to tackle Flash MX with it, I don't know why I didn't check Amazon first. By the first chapter I knew this book was going to be useless; three pages into Chapter One she begins a segment called, "Get a Flash File Up On The Web". Now, why would you concern yourself with this step, in the beginning of the first chapter of a book on how to use Flash? That's the way the whole book goes. A disaster.
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Summary: Horrid book
Review: As a technology instructor, this book is the new epitome for poor editing and unclear instruction. I have tried to execute their exercizes only to find that they are either unclear, incomplete or JUST PLAIN WRONG!For a book entitled, "How to Do Everything with Macromedia Flash MX", they sure missed the mark. I'd be ashamed to have my name on the cover of this waste of natural resources. The book is useless. I'd rate it a -5 stars if I could.
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Summary: This is the worst Flash MX Book! Period!
Review: At its low price, for the introductory aspects of Flash, the best I found. Compact enough to reference quickly. There are quite a bit better books available at twice this price. Its useful to have separate references for the basic tools, and for advanced ActionScript -- as well as good links to the wealth of on-line Flash MX references and explanations.
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Summary: Good intro book for the money
Review: At its low price, for the introductory aspects of Flash, the best I found. Compact enough to reference quickly. There are quite a bit better books available at twice this price. Its useful to have separate references for the basic tools, and for advanced ActionScript -- as well as good links to the wealth of on-line Flash MX references and explanations.
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Summary: This is the worst Flash MX Book! Period!
Review: Do not buy this book, you will be throwing away your hard-earned money like I did. This book is so poorly written, badly organized and filled with inaccurate examples to follow, you will be kicking yourself for buying it. The book is so poorly organized and written that it constantly introduces concepts on one page and then reference other chapters and pages later on in the book. You will waste more time trying to track down bits of useless info strewn all over the place instead of learning anything useful about Flash. The aweful practice examples supplied by the author are plagued with inaacuracies and errors that will frustrate you and make you doubt your intelligence. After wasting time retracing step after step, even a novice like myself figured out that there were missing steps in the exercises that rendered these practice examples absolutely useless and beyond pure frustration. The author is obviously clueless about the subject and the publisher no better for releasing such book with such deceiving title. I have since bought another book, SAMS - Teach Yourself Macromedia Flash MX in 24 Hours, now the author Phillip Kerman knows his stuff and the book is a joy to read, practice and learn. Take my advice buy Mr. Kerman's book, it is well worth the extra $2.50.
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Summary: Helped Me Learn Flash
Review: I found this book to be totally comprehensive and very helpful in teaching me the basics of Flash. It also covers a lot of scripting material. It is organized in such a way that it makes it easy to go back and refer to various topics I needed a refresher on. All in all, it was well worth the money. The online files were a bit difficult to find at first, but they downloaded easily. Great tutorial exercises. Easy to understand.
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Summary: Disorganized...
Review: I found this book to be very poorly organized and written. It seems to jump from one concept to another with no cohesion from topic to topic, let alone chapter to chapter. For example, to extract all you need to know to create a simple motion tween you find yourself flipping back and forth and using a fairly useless index. Most any other book will properly place all the needed information together, and all the previous chapters give you the needed background, this book does not. The information you need seems to be there, but it's so hard to get to it that this book isn't worth the money. Not only did I get this, I had to spend another 30 bucks just to replace this one with something better organized, and more comprehensive.
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Summary: Thorough and comprehensive
Review: I happened upon this review section after I bought the book as I'm now looking for a book on ActionScript. Had I read the reviews first, I may not have bought the book . I have to say, in my opinion (and I have many years experience in multimedia and web design), this book was very comprehensive, easy to read, fun, the download files were great. I was able to work through it quickly and now I am up and running. Easy style writing, upbeat, and yes, there was a typo here and there, but not enough to warrant complaints. Plus it was a good price for wht you get. I recommend this book whole heartedly.
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Summary: Just Ok
Review: I read the other review. The author skips important info vital to step by step creation of a movie. One usually has to stop and figure it out. I don't recommend this book for beginners. Instead of babling on, get a book that is direct and to the point...not this one.
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Summary: Shining Star in cloudy night sky
Review: Ms. Blake's book is outstandingly well written. She brings complicated aspects of Flash down to their most simplistic levels making all techniques easy to understand and use. Her writing is crisp, upbeat and creates a desire to learn and work with the software. She also brings a refreshing angle to many of her suggestions as to how to work with various techniques. I'm a strong reader and user of technical software books and am familiar with many, many that are out there and many, many are just plain terrible! This book shines on in the cloudy night of the myriad of books that have been written...especially about Flash! Ms. Blake: keep up the grand work!
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