ActionScript 3.0 for Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Classroom in a Book |  | Author: Adobe Creative Team
Publisher: Adobe Press
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Edition: 1 Pap/Cdr
Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0321579216
Dewey Decimal Number: 006
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Publication Date: November 22, 2008
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Product Description
The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn ActionScript® 3.0 for Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
ActionScript® 3.0 for Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Classroom in a Book contains 14 lessons. The book covers the basics of learning ActionScript and provides countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.
Learn to add interactivity to Flash files using ActionScript 3.0: Control timelines and animation, write event-handling functions, and control loading of and interaction with data, text, video, sound, and images.
“The Classroom in a Book series is by far the best training material on the market. Everything you need to master the software is included: clear explanations of each lesson, step-by-step instructions, and the project files for the students.” —Barbara Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor, Rocky Mountain Training
Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does—an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.
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 A designers way to learn actionscript January 3, 2009
D. Brinkman (Southern CA)
25 out of 26 found this review helpful
This book is simply the best book I have seen for designers to learn actionscript. I have gone through countless actionscript books, all of which seem like they are written by programmers who just assume you know basic programming. I'm a designer, not a coder! This book helped me bridge the divide and I gratefully spent the money on it. It was worth every penny.
FINALLY March 5, 2009
Kenneth L. Wells (Decatur, GA United States)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
So ActionScript 3.0 has been out for a couple of years and FINALLY it dawns on Adobe to have a AS3.0 book that is for people that didn't get a masters' degree in computer science. And for all you folks that tried with all your might to concentrate hard and start learning 3.0 with a book and pure will, prepare to advance. The book is straight forward, written for designers instead of the other 64 AS3 books.
Now, you can get started. The book tells you helpful things on the way like "you need to get really good at using 'event listeners' because you are going to use them all the time in your basic projects".
You designers have finally found the book to actually get you started. Pretty soon, you'll be helping the Java and C# programmers with ActionScript instead of the other way around. And your stuff will actually still look nice.
Worth the Money February 14, 2009
Rob
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I purchased this book after I read "Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Classroom in a Book" in order to get more insight on some the features of ActionScript 3.0. I wasn't disappointed. I thought the chapters were well organized. And everything worked the way the book said it would. Just follow the directions and you should do well.
Of course, it's an introductory course. But once you finish, you should be able to work with the online materials to find what you need for more detailed information.
good start with actionscript 3.0 April 3, 2009
Mostafa farghaly (Egypt)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is great for beginners who want to learn the fundamentals concepts and features of Actionscript 3.0 , and who want to switch from actionscript 2.0 to 3.0 , it illustrates actionscript 3.0 by the means of practical projects, each chapter has a project with specific goals builds on its previous, and the explanation is clear and step by step instructions and it covers everything you need to know t begin code and animation, and covers the new features of as 3.0 such as pixel bender toolkit, inverse kinematics and developing desktop application with adobe integrated runtime (AIR).
Excellent Actionscript 3.0 study book June 25, 2009
Marc Chelin (clearwater)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is just the right pace to learn actionscript 3.0.
It takes you through the code step by step with explanations all the way. Not like other books that tell you what to write down without telling you why.
There are a few mistakes in the book and the software examples but I found those errors actually helped me understand the code better. Had it not been for the author explaining all the way, I would not have been able to troubleshoot. It did not take me long to find the mistakes due to the explanations in the book and by the time I had found the mistakes, I knew the code thoroughly.
I also have tried reading a lot of other actionscript books and either it was too little information or too much. Both ways I was getting thoroughly confused. After this book, a much more advanced book "essential Actionscript 3.0" now seems very easy to grasp.
I highly recommend this book.
Marc Chelin
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