Actionscript book advise

I've had a play around with flash and action script and i
would like to get to know the language can anyone advise me on the
best actionscript book to buy for a beginner please.
thanks.....
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I'd start with the help files in Flash.
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> I've had a play around with flash and action script and
i would like to
> get to
> know the language can anyone advise me on the best
actionscript book to
> buy for
> a beginner please.
> thanks.....
>
>
> ___________________
> www.gcse.co.nr
>

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Hey guys,
Seeking some advice... I've been a designer for years. I'm
pretty hardcore in Photoshop and Illustrator and can get around in
Flash. Any Flash code I use is very basic or borrowed off the
internet.
My issue... Actionscript is too damn hard to learn. Before
you label me as lazy... I've read a Actionscript book and after
taking copious notes, and now looking back at them, they make no
sense. I also have three different sets of video tutorials, and
have visited Youtube as my last resort.
Any books for amazingly basic script? Any websites?
Also, I want to learn only AS3 now that a new language is
out. Unfortunately most people are still using AS2.
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disagree?

Hi skoolyb,
I agree with what you (and NedWeb) say: the only way to learn
is to
do/try. Sometimes best with some deadline waiting, 'perhaps'
that
product won't be your best, but usually you'll learn a lot.
But be careful, a client may not know how much time something
may cost.
If you don't either, you may get burned or at best have an
unpleasant
period ahead. In such cases I wouldn't hesitate to get
informed in
places like this.
I don't claim to be a "real good" scripter, but I've learned
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experiments not
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better than the
joy of creation?), experiment a lot and don't bite off much
more than
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skoolyb wrote:
> Mano,
>
> I commend you on your honesty. I feel like I'm getting
off topic here.. but I
> agree with your assessment. I've met some coders who are
amazing technically,
> and believe they are good designers, after looking at
there work, it was
> obvious that they were never told the truth. They were
carried thru there
> career with their technical expertise. This is not to
say all, but all that
> I've come into contact with. I can't say that I've ever
met a coder/designer
> who's portfolio was a combination of great design and
great coding. I work for
> a big television corporation and all coders are simply
that... they leave the
> design to others. I think the world is saturated with
non-designers who know
> Adobe programs and therefore believe they are designers.
I was once told by an
> artist and ILM that he'd hire a computer buffoon with
design skills over a
> technical genius with no artistic skills.
>
> The same is applied to designers claiming they know AS,
then you find out
> later they know how to make a stop script, I see this a
lot.
>
> I'll take a look at the book you recommended. A
programmer once told me the
> only way to learn AS is to be forced to. Meaning agree
with the client that it
> can be done, then figure it out via ActionScript.
>
>
>
>
Manno Bult
http://www.aloft.nl

Australian actionscript training

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worthwhile resource. Usually Im hugely sceptical about training
seminars as I prefer to buy books and utilise this and other
forums, but with this seminar I was pleasantly surprised.
Firstly I should state that I have no relationship to David
Harradine training and that I got to see it purely by luck, through
a friend of a friend.
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explore actionscript but rapidly gets you up to speed so that you
can tackle more complex scenarios. I decided to post about it,
because I found that when I first started learning actionscript,
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forums and my actionscript books and this would have been it for
me.
As a visual person there was many times that I just could not
grasp a scripting concept and needed a face to face explanation.
This is exactly what this seminar has the potential to deliver for
people in the same situation as I was. While I found the graphics
used in the seminar to be pretty basic, I didn't mind because what
they were teaching could easily have much slicker graphics applied
to it.
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN" "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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src="../../include/SpryData.js"></script>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"
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<link href="../../css/gallery.css" rel="stylesheet"
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dsData"> <img src="{dsData::thumbnail/@base}{@thumbpath}"
spry:repeat="dsGallery" class="thumbs" spry:setrow="dsGallery"
/> </div>
<div id="main" spry:detailregion="dsGallery
dsData"><img src="{dsData::large/@base}{@path}"/><br
/>
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<li><a
href="../../misc/about.html">About</a></li>
<li><a
href="../../links.html">Links</a></li>
</ul>
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<div id="footer">
<p>© Carolyn Ann Grant, 2006, 2007 <br
/>All rights reserved. No photo may be used without written
permission. </p>
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</html>
===== photos.xml
<gallery>
<sitename>Cats</sitename>
<photographer>Carolyn Ann Grant</photographer>
<thumbnail base ="Thumbnails/" font = "Helvetica" fontsize
= "4" color = "#F0F0F0" border = "0" rows = "3" col = "5">
</thumbnail>
<large base ="Photos/" font = "Helvetica" fontsize = "3"
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width="400"
height="200"
thumbpath = "appelec.jpg"
thumbwidth = "75"
thumbheight="75">
</photo>
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height="480"
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thumbwidth = "65"
thumbheight="65">
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</photos>
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Before i go reconstructing your page, a helpful tip or two:
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page as text. Then you can see the path that Spry thinks it is, and
match it with what you think it is. It's easy to see the "oh I
forgot to put a slash between folder names..." stuff.
Install Firebug and use it. It's invaluable for seeing
generated markup and finding out what's up.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1843/
We are talking about reworking the gallery so it is easier to
customize.
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Don

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Best regards,
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Message was edited by: Limey Pete
Message was edited by: Limey Pete
Message was edited by: Limey Pete

OS X makes modifications to OS 9 to help classic mode. These modifications do not cause problems when you boot OS 9. There is normally no need for a separate partition for OS 9. OS 9 in an OS X partition can be used with OSX as Classic, or can be booted directly. There are a couple of reasons, though, why you might want separate partitions:
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[/ preface]
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windows.
I tried other code that I got out of an ActionScript book and
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I need to read an extensive and up-to-date reference about these topics in digital imaging.
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