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Learning ActionScript 3.0 (A Beginner's Guide)
by: Rich Shupe, Zevan Rosser

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.696
EAN: 9780596527877
ISBN: 059652787X
Label: Adobe Dev Library
Manufacturer: Adobe Dev Library
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 382
Publication Date: December 13, 2007
Publisher: Adobe Dev Library
Studio: Adobe Dev Library
Sales Rank: 3841

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Engaging and easily understandable
I've got oodles of programming books and I'd put this one up with the best of my collection. It's carefully written to ensure all levels of experience and aptitude are catered for, I'd class myself as somewhere in the intermediates with a decent knowledge of actionscript 2 and I found it enormously useful.

All examples and diagrams make perfect sense, and the explanations they use have actually helped me come to terms with other programming paradigms I'd used but never fully understood.

Thoroughly recommend this one.

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- The best book I have read on the subject
This is the best book on Action Script I have read. It doesn't just explain techniques but it explains why things are so. For example, it explains why it's sometimes better to use sprites than movie clips and why you should always remove event listeners when they aren't needed.

I have read Colin Moock's book as well as the ActionScript 3 Bible and the documentation provided by Adobe. To my mind, this book is the best of all because it allows you to start using ActionScript 3 straight away. With a lot of books, you have covered many pages before you do anything useful. This book has you putting stuff on the screen straight away.
I already had knowledge of ActionScript 2 but I would have thought it would be useful to beginners ... Read More:

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- Awesome...
After endlessly searching for a decent AS3 book but having to settle with intermediate to advanced book I found this little gem and started some research. After finding reviews on the flashblog and other resources I decided to go ahead with the purchase.

not only is this book well illustrated in full colour, it also gives you a sense that your learning at a steady pace without feeling like your missing something as you progress.

The online resource site offers all of the files needed to sit and study the chapters in the book closer.

I have also recently embarked on what I thought was a problem with one of the resource files and emailed the support group, I was astonished to get a reply within 15 Minutes, pity ... Read More:

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- Easir to follow than Big Colin
I really like this book, It's a lot easier to follow than Colin Mook's essential one (Which of course you do actually need as well) Pretty straight to the point, easy to read and understand although I'm probably slap bang in the middle of the target audience - intermediate user with a fairly good understanding of key concepts and how OOP works. I don't recommend it for the absolute beginner and calling it "A beginners guide" is a bit misleading but as a transitional guide, its really good.

There are quite a few typos, it must be said and some of them are quite confusing. I also found that the choice of variable names occasionally made it less clear as to what's intended.

Overall, highly recommended and pretty much the second ... Read More:

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- best buy fopr every actionscript level
If you read this book and Essential actionscript 3 i actually belive you will be able to learn just as much if not more from Learning Actionscript 3 even though essential as3 is over 3x heavyer both mentally and physicaly - based on the fact the this book delivers the content in such an lite and understanable way in full color.

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