Flash book

Anyone can recommend Flash book focussed on actionscript
(FLash MX 2004 or
Flash 8) with good tutorials (medium - advanced)?
- SAMS Teach Yourself Flash MX Actionscript in 24 hours
is one of the great book I found.
cheers

This is a very common post topic in these forums. Try
searching for more recommendations.
Colin Moock's AS books are very good. Books published by
Friends of Ed. or even the Visual Quickstart Guides...all depending
on your skill level and needs. A trip to the local mega-bookstore
for a few hours of browsing should help you decide on what's best
for you.
Good luck!

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Mumasatus,
> Hello, I'm very new to flash, and wanted to know if any
of you
> knew of a good tutorial/referance book that I could use
to help
> teach myself flash.
Flash is one of the most versatile tools I know. You can use
Flash for
everything from TV cartoons (no programming at all), to
custom slideshows,
banners, and other Web eye candy (perhaps some programming),
to games, music
players, video players, and applications (potentially heavy
programming).
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so for
anyone to recommend a book, it will probably help to hear
more about the
projects you're interested in pursuing. There are books
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applications,
on demoing (faking) applications, on programming in general,
and even on
extending the capabilities of the authoring tool.
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mention the
friends of ED title I just co-authored with my buddy Tom
Green (not *that*
Tom Green, the other one). It's called "Foundation Flash CS4
for
Designers," and this new edition is nearly 700 pages. We
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space, the various drawing tools, text, audio, video, two
chapters on
animation, CSS, XML, the UI components, and more.
http://www.FoundationFlashCS4.com/
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read sample
chapters, and Amazon.com sells both for around $25 apiece,
which is pretty
cheap. There aren't any reviews yet for the CS4 edition, but
the reviews
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http://tinyurl.com/2cp6na
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