Wanna learn Actionscript.3.0 along with game development?

hi guys, i am sharing some best books to learn AS.3.0 along with game development including box2d.
best books ever.....(over 7 large pdf books)
you can build complete games from these pdf books.
you need flash professional CS4 or above. you can still use it with CS3...
see this video for links and book covers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHzVBud3ah4

Dave,
> OK, so that sort of helps. I downloaded and installed it
> but when I went to create components like I have in my
> Flash 8.0 application I am writing, there are none
available.
Those are the v2 UI Components, which means they're written
in
ActionScript 2.0 and are therefore incompatible with AS3.
Using that
special version of Flash, you may still publish in AS2 if you
like (see
Publish Settings), in which case those Components will
reappear.
> Is this a watered down version so you can't do anything
> with forms.
What you have is not a watered down version at all. Rather,
it's a
souped up version of Flash 8, which is otherwise not capable
of publishing
for Flash Player 9 (in other words, ActionScript 3.0). The
title is a
mouthful, but Flash Professional 9 ActionScript 3.0 Preview
is a *preview
release* of Flash 9, which gives every indication that the
next full release
of Flash will support ActionScript 3.0, and presumably new
AS3-based
Components to match.
> Does this force me to have to get Flex2? I hope not.
Of course not! ;) If you want to develop with AS3 now
already, then
you'll have to do it with something that can compile Flash 9
SWFs. Flex
Builder 2 is an IDE and costs money, but the compiler (Flex 2
SDK) itself is
freeware.
http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/sdk/
If you can wait for Flash 9, then that could be yet another
choice --
presumably improved upon the preview release in your hands.
David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog,
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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> I want to learn Actionscript 3.0 because I have
discovered
> that you can't do really nice flash stuff without
knowing it.
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re-organization of the
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> I just know a little bit of HTML. What's the best way
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> about learning actionscript?
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experience when
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still love)
multimedia. I've been fortunate enough to make a career out
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drawing tools.
http://www.amazon.com/Object-Oriented-ActionScript-3-0-Todd-Yard/dp/1590598458/
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