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Foundation Macromedia Flash MX 2004
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by Sham Bhangal, Kristian Besley, and Sham Bhangal
Sales Rank: 243422
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Discount: 49 %
$1.29
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Paperback: 600 pages
Publisher: friends of ED; 1st ed. 2004. Corr. 2nd printing edition December 22, 2003
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590593030
ISBN-13: 978-1590593035
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 7.5 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
Book Description
If you have never used Flash before and you are looking for a book that will give you a rock solid grounding in Flash MX 2004, then this is the title for you. This book uses a series of structured exercises to give you the broad, solid foundation knowledge you need to start your exploration of Flash from scratch. Foundation Macromedia Flash MX 2004 uses a proven sequential, detailed, and accessible tutorial style to ensure that you'll retain your learning and be able to draw on it throughout your Flash career.
Macromedia Flash MX 2004 is an exciting product, providing rich creative opportunities for Flash designers and developers at all levels of ability and experience. No single book can hope to provide adequate coverage of all aspects of Flash MX 2004, which is why this book focuses relentlessly on the core skills that you need to get you started: understanding the interface; familiarizing yourself with the creative tools and their capabilities; grasping the relationships between the different components that make up a Flash movie; getting insight into how to put all the pieces together and hook them up with ActionScript. All these aspects (and much more) are covered in detailed tutorials and exercises, reinforced with a case study that runs throughout the book to apply everything in a real-world context.
Book Info
Text uses a series of structured exercises and detailed discussions to help readers start an exploration of Flash. Features a running case study that evolves into a fully functional Flash website while working through the tutorials. Softcover.
Customer Reviews & Comments
I purchased this book to learn the latest OOP programming techniques available in Flash MX 2004. However, the author spent the bulk of each chapter explaining how to do something using techniques appropriate to versions prior to MX 2004, then made a statement about there was a better way to do it. He then spent very little time telling you what to modify to make it more OOP oriented or more efficient. You can't skip ahead and just look at the "better way" since all explanations of the "better way" were based on modifications to the original example. Obviously, the author just did a "quickie" upgrade of a previous version of this book so he could sell more copies. I don't need to waste my time learning how to do something the hard/inefficient way. With the cost of the book, the author should have written a new version appropriate to the upgrades made under MX 2004 to support OOP instead of just adding a few OOP comments here and there to a previous version of the book. Avoid this book if you want to learn good OOP techniques!
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