This book contains all you need to understand and make use of ActionScript, and to have some fun while learning. The Foundation series teaching style is ideal if you’re a non-programmer who wants to learn Flash programming quickly and thoroughly. The authors teach the basics, and provide you an all-around proficiency in ActionScript, as well as Flash components within Flash 8. You’ll gain the practical skills to build ActionScript based Flash projects, including making initial design decisions, structuring code, and testing. An ongoing case study means that by the end of the book, you’ll have constructed a cutting-edge Flash site to showcase your newly learned skills.
Summary of Contents:
- Chapter 1 Interactive Flash
- Chapter 2 Making Plans
- Chapter 3 Movies That Remember
- Chapter 4 Movies That Decide for Themselves
- Chapter 5 More Power, Less Script
- Chapter 6 Movies That Remember How to Do Things
- Chapter 7 Objects and Classes
- Chapter 8 Objects on the Stage
- Chapter 9 Reusable Code and Realistic Movement
- Chapter 10 Games and Sprites
- Chapter 11 Drawing API
- Chapter 12 Adding Sound to Flash
- Chapter 13 Loading Dynamic Data with XML
- Chapter 14 Finishing the Futuremedia Case Study
- Chapter 15 Advanced ActionScript: Components and Classes
Who is this book for?
This book is for anyone who has a basic understanding of Flash and wants to learn more about scripting. The book is for beginners and intermediate users. Advanced users can get a few good tips from this book though.
Conclusion
This book takes you from introducing ActionScript and the Actions Panel in Flash to creating more advanced applications and object oriented programming. The book uses ActionScript 2.0 and uses the Flash version 2 components, which can save you a lot of time. The books illustrations can be a bit dull at times but all in all they are very clear and functional. The examples of the book are very useful and practical. We recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn (more) about Flash 8 and ActionScript.
Competition
The friendly people of Friends of ED are giving away 5 books. All you need to do, to enter the competition is; download the extract (press read more and then download sample PDF on your right)and answer the following question:
- What's the easiest way to think of an Array?
Send your answer to this e-mail address, before Thursday the 8th of June 2006. Don't forget to include your post address and phone number (required for international shipping) in the e-mail.
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