Foundation ActionScript for Flash 8

By Kristian Besley, David Powers, Eric Dolecki, et al.

Book Overview

This book contains all you need to master ActionScript, and have some fun at the same time. Flash guru Sham Bhangal's acclaimed teaching style is ideal if you're a non-programmer who wants to learn Flash programming quickly and thoroughly. Bhangal teaches you the basics, and provides you an all-around proficiency in ActionScript and Flash components within Flash 8. You'll gain the practical skills to build ActionScript projects, including making initial design decisions, structuring code, and testing. By the end of it, you'll have constructed a cutting-edge Flash/ActionScript site.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590596188
• ISBN13: 9781590596180
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 648 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.5" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Well structured, No boring Jargon and Everything you need in one book.

I am new to actionscript, have watched a few Total Training dvd's, but they don't really go into indepth actionscript. Unless you buy all the dvd's which are expensive. This book was great. And has given my mind more of an understanding, especially of the process, of programming. I'm more a graphic designer, who is getting into web design, so if I can go from first page through to the end in 3 weeks and juggle a screaming...

Great Book for Beginner on up ....

I am a current animation student in California and Flash is one of the tools we are using. While I have developed some proficiency animating in Flash, the scripting tends to turn my brain to mush after a while. I picked up Foundation Flash 8 to learn some of the basics and have been using Foundation Actionscript for Flash 8 to gradually explore scripting. I am not a programmer but got through the first few chapters easy...

A diamond amongst coal.

As an old UNIX hack I have read quite a few programming manuals, from the original C (Kerninghan & Richie - when it was new!), to the present. Very few, if any, (including the O'Reilly series), have come close to being so informative, easy to read, and enjoyable as the 'ActionScript for Flash 8' book. I consider myself a poor programmer partly because I never found 'print Hello World!' that interesting. In any event, this...

More than an Actionscript introduction!

Although this book is ostensibly a "beginner" book on Flash Actionscript (no previous programming experience necessary), I got more out of this book than you can imagine, and I'm not done with it yet. I've already got a few favorite pages that I come back to again and again. What struck me right off the bat was that this book wasn't code-heavy, but had much more in the way of explanations than most books, which was exactly...