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Sams Teach Yourself Flash MX ActionScript in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself)
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by Gary Rosenzweig
Sales Rank: 89861
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List Price: $29.99
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Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Sams May 12, 2002
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0672323850
ISBN-13: 978-0672323850
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.3 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
Book Description
Macromedia Flash delivers sound, interactivity, graphics, and animations across multiple browsers and platforms. It enables developers to create interactive interfaces and distinctive Web applications. ActionScript is the behind-the-scenes programming language that offers greater control and functionality in Flash programming.
Sams Teach Yourself Flash ActionScript in 24 Hours offers a clearly written, well organized introduction to programming Flash with ActionScript. The reader will be taught basic programming techniques while creating their own interactive Flash movies.
Download Description
A clearly written, practical introduction to programming Flash with ActionScript. The hands-on tutorial approach is ideal for illustrators, animators, and Web designers who don't have a background in programming. Covers the latest version of Flash and ActionScript, expected March or April 2002. The author, Gary Rosenzweig, is a well-known Flash developer and writer. Sams Teach Yourself Flash ActionScript in 24 Hours offers a clearly written, well organized introduction to programming Flash with ActionScript. The reader will be taught basic programming techniques while creating their own interactive Flash movies. Most Flash users are illustrators and animators who have embraced Flash as a way to create animations for the Web. They have little or no experience with programming, but know that ActionScript is a powerful skill and want to learn it. Gary Rosenzweig is a multimedia software developer, entrepreneur, and writer. He is owner and developer of FlashArcade.com, a site of Flash games that pushes the edge of Flash programming. His business, CleverMedia, does consulting and Internet publishing and creates games, applications, and utilities using Flash and Shockwave. CleverMedia's Web site contains the world's largest collection of Shockwave applets made by one company.
Customer Reviews & Comments
The most extraordinary flaws in this book are the constant references to files on a non existent CD. Each chapter has a selection of code examples that are accessible from a CD. However, the CD doesn't exist, and it beggars belief that the book made it all through proofing into print without this error being caught. There is no errata slip, and no mention of a website that might have the missing files (if you visit the author's own website, the files will be found). Moreover some of the code examples appear to be from the author's earlier Flash 5 book on game creation. There are also glitches in some of the books' code snippets (quotes added, and typos). My overall impression of the book (I began skimming it after I discovered the CD flaw) is that it is easy to read, but not to follow. The CD flaw is so ubiquitous throughout the text, that one wonders whether Sam's shouldn't reimburse everyone who bought the book, or at least pencil them in for a reprint. Nearly every chapter references the contents of at least one CD file, but fails to replicate the code example on the page you're reading. Another flaw is the lack of good software engineering practices to use with Flash. One of my biggest headaches in dealing with graduates that have 'mastered' Flash outside of Computer Science, is their lack of an understanding of structured programming. The book misses an opportunity to address these principles early on. If the flaws above were fixed, this could be a great book. Until then I would not be happy to recommend it to a student. Incidentally, the publishers still haven't replied to a complaint I emailed about the proof reading and missing CD.
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