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- courtesyflush
if you were a novice, how would you go about it? a particular book or tutorial?
- FallowDeer0
- thanks, anyone else?courtesyflush
- u going 2nite ?WeLoveNoise
- nar, its a load of shite. but if your going??FallowDeer
- haha not sure - none of my mates wana go so will be on my todWeLoveNoise
- I think you need to go and tell them its a load of pap hahaFallowDeer
- lol
shud go tho really been stuck doing freelance. need a fuckin pint / and a new jobWeLoveNoise - I cant be arsed, its in the northern as well, its like the uber posh place for newton heath'ersFallowDeer
- LOL the northern is a fuckin dumb mate. end of the day its full of designers desperate for work. cant bring myself to that level :) not yet anywayWeLoveNoise
- level - not yet anywayWeLoveNoise
- haha you dont talk to anyone, just end up chatting to your mate who has come with you, mmm networkingFallowDeer
- WeLoveNoise0
- goto was once considered harmful among programmers, but actionscript brought it back! ....AS3 may try to bury it againvaxorcist
- fate_0
"Actionscript Cookbook" is good. Learn by doing, and all that.
They're very focused learning. You need to know how to do a specific task? They have the 'recipe' for accomplishing it in Actionscript.
- I guess I'd like to learn enough to have a solid enough foundation to learn whatever I neededcourtesyflush
- courtesyflush0
- 3.0 4 desingersjsaul
- thankscourtesyflush
- Wasn't there a AS3 essential training?epikore
- jsaul0
- This book sucks. Trust me, it's all about how to use your palettes and tools, very little scripting.dMullins
- I was wondering about this bookepikore
- I think its pretty good, so does Lee brimelowjsaul
- i thought this book was ok, plus they are offering new content on the site. not great on it's own mind.airey
- Are you kidding? This book is great for someone trying to get into AS3.mrbee2828
- epikore0
- profit for me, or the author?courtesyflush
- if me, I'm incourtesyflush
- everyone =)epikore
- courtesyflush0
- Nope, AS3 for designers or AS3 essential training if it's still thereepikore
- yeah try AS3 essential training, thats what im learning at the minuteFallowDeer
- d_rek0
www.kirupa.com has some pretty straightforward and painless AS2.0 tutorials
- courtesyflush0
There's AS3 in flash CS4 for Designers
or
AS3 in Flash CS3 Professional Essential Training(I only have cs3 right, but could go cs4 if the top would be better)
- rosem0
AS3 Essentials
AS3 Beyond the Basics
AS3 Working with XML
AS3 OOPDo them in that order, and you should be on your way. I wouldn't bother with the "for designers" stuff, unless you plan on learning the absolute basics and stopping there.
- the cds?courtesyflush
- just get a membership and watch online, much cheaper if you keep at it.rosem
- bort0
I'd vote Lynda too. Though I haven't done any actionscript tutorials there, the php ones were very well done.
- epikore0
my subscription ended =(
- renew????alicetheblue
- I had a free yearly membership, trying to get approvalepikore
- I gave too many people the loginepikore
- how did you a freebie?????alicetheblue
- through a side clientepikore
- courtesyflush0
- yeah, good start.rosem
- yes, start here http://www.lynda.com…epikore
- Great start.digitalN
- epikore0
Do you plan on subscribing or buying the cd? Subscribing is $25 a month.
- rosem0
Yeah, subscribe and get through them all in a month or two and you'll save a lot of $$.
- make sure you follow along and keep your demo files for reference though, it ends up helping a lot.rosem
- Do you still remember what you learned?epikore
- if you follow along, I watched a few of the films but didnt learn a thing, but once I actually started typing it was a different storyFallowDeer
- story...FallowDeer
- yeah, I would consider myself a pretty decent flash dev now...rosem
- yeah, the key is to follow along, and even go back and watch some parts again until you get it.rosem
- tommyo0
I was pretty decent at AS2 and making the switch to AS3 was rocky. I prefer it now over AS2 but Colin Moocks book went right over my head at the beginning. I second the Cookbook, for some reason when I started reading it everything made perfect sense, then I moved on to Moocks book. I also highly recommend reading a Design Patterns book near the beginning of your studies if not to actually put the concepts to work, you'll at the very least have some of that knowledge in the back of your mind. This will give you some OOP experience.
I have and like:
http://www.amazon.com/ActionScri…
- epikore0
I never understood the OReily pattern books. What exactly do you learn from it that's practical?
- tommyo0
Encapsulating your code for reusability for starters. No more 1000+ line sites with spaghetti code that you can't figure out 1 month later. Actually, correction, now it's 10+ .as files you may or may not be able to figure out 1 month later, but at least it's little chunks of confusion! :P Forces you to keep things pretty well organized. I've been learning PureMVC the last month and the concepts in the book really help to know. Steep ass learning curve but I can see how it will be really beneficial down the road.
I guess it just depends on what you're planning to do in the field. If you're building anything larger than a small brochure style site then design patterns seem pretty beneficial to me.