Foundation Actionscript
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- redant
I need to learn actionscript are the friends of ed books good?
- flashbender0
They are not bad, but Colin Moock's Essential Actionscript books from O'riley are better.
- redant0
thanks ill look into it. It's just that I'm a designer and sometimes I find programming boring, but I need to learn it for the job market. thanks.
- StratusGD0
I liked Moock's AS/AS2 books. Maybe it's just because I'm so used to the old way, but his AS3 book seems alot harder to follow - even simple things like loading an external XML file, or using AS to place symbols from your library on the stage seem poorly explained.
That, or I was just having a mildly retarded week last week.
- mikotondria20
Im trudging through moocks as3 book at the moment, and yeh, it does seem kinda dry.
I, like I guess everyone learning as3, only want to do so so that we can run our ideas on the new flash player, which is the best improvement in a long time, but boy it makes even the simplest thing so seemingly unnecessarily complex and you can end up pulling yr hair out over endless and pointless compile errors...I think adobe nearly nearly dropped the ball on this one..
- fitsum0
jumping into AS3 w/ no programming experience is a hell of a leap. Moock's books are always comprehensive and well written but might be hard to follow for nube coders.
- redant0
i gotta do it :(!! gotta -noob
- fitsum0
try Kirupa.com
lots of good easy to follow tutorials.
- StratusGD0
Actually, I used the AS/AS2 books without much of an issue. I think it's just the AS3 book with it's focus on Object-Oriented Programming. You're trying to learn 2 things at once.