Flash 5 Hands-On Training [With CDROM]

by Kymberlee Weil, Lynda Weinman, Green. Garo

UntitledFlash 5 Hands-on Training is a tutorial-based learning tool for beginning Flash designers from Lynda Weinmans best-selling Hands-on Training series. With no prior experience using Flash, users... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201731347
• ISBN13: 9780201731347
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Length: 739 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.6" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

It gives you a solid foundation

I give 5 stars to this great book and I'll tell you why.At first I was little impressed by the size of this book, but when I started to read it I discovered that it was so fast and easy to read. This book is intended for begginers and intermediate Flash users.I have 5 Flash books, 3 intended for beginners and 2 for intermediate, and this one has really made me feel that Flash is under my control. It has given me tips you won't find in the Flash help.It has 17 chapters. I have read one chapter every day. In less than 3 weeks you will learn what every Flash user, beginner, intermediate or expert should know. The knowledge you'll gain with this easy reading book (but full of information, excercises and samples) will help you all the way until you become a Flash master.Wanna save time and money? Buy Flash HOT Book. These guys really know how to teach. They don't try to impress you with dark concepts you can't understand. They haven't forgotten they were newbies some day. They know the art of teaching.I really recommend this book to beginners. Soon you will have the knowledge and tools to unleash your creativity and start creating movies and web sites.Then you can buy whatever intermediate or advanced book you want. You'll be ready for the next level stuff.

Lyndo.com is tops - bought book

I can't say enough about how Lynda and assoc. writes books. I've bought too many books, such as Flash Magic books, Visual Quick start Foundation Flash & others. Really, I bought too many that sit unused becuase they were not inspiring to me!I know that I am coming from a beginner to intermediate user, but I have a mad passion for REAL well written tutorial books with quicktime movies. Lynda's books deliver BIG TIME!She take GREAT care, step by step, trying to show you how to do her tutorials with out loosing a step.The other books such as Visual Quickstart books and Flash Magic books really seemed to be geared for more of advanced geek type user. All of them and I've read and browsed many, do not teach as complete as she does.I just feel that there are not very many books out there that teach software the way Lynda's books do. There is something very uplifting about her books. i almost feel like I could go door to door trying to sell her books they are that good.Sure there will be geeky people that feel her approach is to simplistic. But they miss the BOAT BIG TIME!!!!!!!!!O by the way I bought Foundation Flash as well. Again, all the other books that are not written by her from other companies just don't have the gift that she does! That real step by step approach.We all go through life trying to find things that are uplifting, artistic. We see Van Gough paintings, we great bridges built. We see and hear great music.We also see and read great books.She can teach, and teach very well indeed.* * * * *

Excellent

I received this book for Christmas, never having done ANYTHING with Flash. Now I'm creating websites, banners, and intro movies! This book, however, is for COMPLETE beginners. Do not buy it if you already know a good share of information. Besides that, I can't think of any other book (and I've been through many) that are as informative and understandable as this one. Simply a must have.

finally! i can USE this program!

i have been dabbling with flash for awhile now. i do HTML sites and a lot of print work, but i've been dying to become more comfortable with flash. i hardly have time to take a night class, so i tried this line of books. Hands-On-Training books are the way to go! you go at your own pace and it is in a class-like layout, one step at a time. the CD-ROM contains everything you need and the Quicktime movies serve to explain the tricky things in detail while showing you exactly what is going on! the tone of their teaching is fun and understandable and never goes over your head. i am so thrilled, i now feel like i can actually USE this program! i have also previously bought the dreamweaver H.O.T. book, and it too was fantastic. these books are not meant to be reference books, they are teaching books. i recommend buying a reference book later (the Visual Quick Start line is great for the price). also, it is nice to get a book that uses Mac as its teaching tool, though it is easily translatable into Windows. what a bang for the buck! and to think i wanted to take a course for $450!

Best tutorial I've taken

I've taken a number of software tutorials and this one was the best. First, the exercises were short ones so I could walk away from the computer and come back and not be lost. Second, I found very few errors in the book, and the ones I did find were non- tutorial-affecting. I've taken far too many tutorials in which the files weren't available on the CD or the lesson didn't work as described or there were glaring grammatical or spelling errors throughout.I liked this book a lot because it didn't spend as much time on the graphics aspect of Flash as other books do (and then they spend too little time on the animation aspect). I've dinked around with the program before. Now I feel I have a sound background in the program. This is one of the few tutorials I have ever completed; it's the first Flash one I have. The projects held my interest and showed me things about the program that I hadn't yet discovered.I recommend this book to any beginner and anyone who has played around with the program but doesn't have a good grasp on its capabilities.