Learning ActionScript 3.0: A Beginner's Guide
Selected Book Details
- Paperback
- Edition: 1st
- Author: Rich Shupe, Shupe Rich, Rosser Zevan
- Publisher: O'Reilly/Adobe Developer Library
- Release Date: January 2008
- ISBN-10: 059652787X
- ISBN-13: 9780596527877
- List Price: $39.99
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
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Average Rating: 
Positive review from a beginner in AS3
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I'm about 1/4 through this book. It's my first exposure to ActionScript. The book seems well thought out and covers basics that I never knew.
Excellent book -- get it!
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I've done tons of AS2, but I've been struggling with AS3 for a long time. This book is great and is helping me finally figure out how AS3 works. Highly recommended!
Great for Transitioning to ActionScript 3
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Keeping up to date in software for work or hobby is essential for those with a drive to stay on top and continually improve their products or services or with just a desire to make their job a little easier. As arduous as a transition to an unfamiliar programming language can be, this book provides help for beginners who have had some experience with former versions of ActionScript or other similar programming languages.
From my own personal experience with the book, all that I can say is that the book delivered all that I expected of it which was to help me to better understand the changes made with ActionScript 3. Already providing plenty of information for a good variety of topics, the book further succeeds in delivering a pleasant presentation.
After reading the material, the book remains as a helpful reference. While it may not be easily comprehended by those who have absolutely no experience with any programming language, it is very convenient for those like myself who have.
Excellent book
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I have to say that this book is excellent. I am new to ActionScript development and this book has provided me with an excellent foundation on which to build. The explainations and code examples given in this book are excellent and really give you a great overview of the language.
This is an absolutely excellent book and the most recommended by the Flash community.
Learned Flash, Now I'm Going to Learn ActionScript
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It is so important that people find the right book for them. I am a real "learn by doing" kind of gal. Good at everything and master of nothing - I dabble. I am building my company an intranet, I make marketing materials (from our branding guidelines) using Photoshop, I might learn 3D modeling/BIM. So when it was time to suggest that we wow a tech-savvy client with an e-brochure, I told them I could get it done in 2 weeks, with absolutely no Flash experience.
Crap - I committed to something I don't know how to do. What did I do? I did what I always do - I bought a book! I made a whole stack at the bookstore, and sat in the cafe in the store looking through all of them to make sure I got the best book - the one that would make me successful. Some were very high-tech, one looked like greek, one was too cartoony and silly, and then Rich Shupe's book "Learning Flash CS4", the companion book to "Learning ActionsScript 3.0", just stood out. His tone was calm, the instructions were basic, and it included a book-long project with several major Flash components like embedded movie clips, kinematics, sound with controls, tweening. Pretty much everything someone might want to do, with sample files available at each stage from their website, to help check your work.
Any expert would say the book was light on explanations and detail, but when you are starting out, you need just enough to get it working, and you know someday you'll understand because Rich tells you so; sprinkled around are subtle encouragements like "you'll learn more about that in a later chapter, for now just do it this way" kind of statements. And at the end of each chapter there is a review, and an explanation of how what you learned fits in to what you are about to learn.
So since the same author that wrote Learning Flash CS4, it stands to reason that Learning ActionScript 3.0, which is billed as the companion book to the one I have, will have the same calm step by step approach. I already learned some basics from the first book, so I know what I am up against. Learning any kind of programming is difficult for me, and I am really nervous about venturing deeper into scripting, but I feel like I can't fail! With this author's help I was able to make a very professional presentation in under two weeks and it is a hit.
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