Animate your productions and publish Flash movies. Take advantage of Flash's functionality and flexibility, and discover even greater creativity and brighter, more effective Web content. Get fascinating, step-by-step coverage of arguably the most exciting Web authoring tool ever created. Learn the fundamental tools as well as ActionScript, Flash's native programming language.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Good for interface , AS section is worth skipping:
This book makes you familiar with flash interface , tweening etc.Till there you will find it helpful but his section on AS is worth skipping.Not only its too theoretic , it is buggy like chap 13 projet , the event handler for the button was forgotten.After reading AS section don't think you can handle real life code probs ...this section vaguely makes you familiar with whats AS,its codes etc..You need a book dedicated to AS if you want to do something serious with it.
I think this book is ideal for a computer-savvy beginner:
I found this book to be easy to use and fairly comprehensive for a beginner's book. It is comprised of fourteen separate modules teaching new skillsets in Flash MX 2004. It was well-written and direct in its explanation of location and use of the different parts of the Flash interface, which really cuts down on the frustration level for newbies. Compared to some other books that took things a little too slow, I found this book got me up to speed in one weekend, which is how long it took me to go through it... more info
Only an average book, IF you are absolutely new to Flash:
This is only an average book, if you are absolutely new to Flash. The reason I say this is because I am fairly okay with Flash, meaning I can make simple animations, modify other's, but am no pro at one. I know that this book is for beginner's, but I think that doing things in a more 'hands-on' fashion would teach you far better than reading how to make animations from a book. It would be better if you purchased Flash reference books instead, so if you ever needed help, THEN you go to find the answer. Also,... more info
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