If you've dabbled with Flash and want to expand your repertoire, this book will teach you what you need to know about ActionScript in a fast-paced tutorial style. The ActionScript language is becoming an increasingly vital part of every Flash designer's toolkit, but it can seem like a scary prospect for the non-programmer. We'll show you how easy it is to create interesting, interactive movies in Flash MX through visual metaphors and worked examples. The aim is to get you up to speed quickly, giving you the skills you need to add extra functionality and control to your Flash movies. By the time you're finished, you should have a good grasp of the core ActionScript concepts and techniques, and plenty of ideas for your own projects. No previous programming experience is required, just a familiarity with the Flash MX interface, and even the most code-phobic reader should find the learning curve to be smooth and easy.

ActionScript Zero to Hero

Computers & Technology

Jen DeHaan

Glen Rhodes

Web Development & Design

Apress

It all revolves around Flash and math. It's what you do in your spare time: just take little ideas and mess around with them. This is a book of inspiration, beautiful enough to leave on the coffee table, but addictive enough to keep by your computer and sneak out while no-one's looking so you can go back to that movie that you were tinkering with 'til three o'clock this morning. It's a fun book. It's a book of iterative experiments, generative design. Each author does four experiments. Each experiment takes up four pages. We give you the code and explain the essence, then you take away your inspiration and run with it. The purpose of the book is to learn through experimentation because you are inspired to do so, not because someone is telling you to do so. Follow the fmc site link for more information.

Flash Math Creativity

Jamie MacDonald

Manny Tan

Jared Tarbell

Gabriel Mulzer

friendsofED

If you're serious about Flash design, and if you want to push your ideas to the very limits of possibility in Flash MX, then this book and CD are your indispensible companions. 
The book and CD package combines two vital elements: 
1. The most comprehensive and in-depth reference resource for Flash MX ActionScript 2. A collection of rich, practical tutorials on using ActionScript effectively in Flash movie design 
We've packed in 20 chapters of tutorials, 100s of detailed reference entries, and 100s of example FLAs and SWFs. The CD reproduces and expands the book's Complete ActionScript Dictionary, providing a comprehensive and portable reference tool. 
Our aim has been to make this book the best Flash MX ActionScript resource, bar none - the book that you'll keep on your desk and never exhaust. This book contains: 
- The complete reference and illustrated guide to ActionScript - Over 650 detailed reference entries - Over 400 fully functional illustrative FLAs - A-Z coverage of the ActionScript language - Over 300 pages of addition text content on the CD 
It's the real ActionScript Reference you've been waiting for.

Macromedia Flash MX Designer's ActionScript Reference

Sham Bhangal

John Davey

Scott Mebberson

Reference

Some Flash users like the depth, comfort and security of the linear tutorial approach. Others respond better to a more laid-back model. This book is for you if you're a denizen of the latter group; it's rich in images and examples, and restrained in its use of narrative. It gives you a fast but thorough and structured introduction that'll get you started with Flash MX quickly. This beginner-level book uses a visual tutorial model to teach you the core knowledge you'll need to get started with Flash MX. It's rich in images and examples, and is aimed at the reader who prefers to learn by example and play, rather than by following a fixed tutorial route. This book is completely modular, so you can read it in any order you like, and come back to specific modules for reference purposes later.

Macromedia Flash MX Express

Arts & Photography

Leon Cych

Benjamin J. Mace

Graphic Design

friends of ED

This book takes an in-depth look at purposing your Flash skills towards developing fully functional Flash Applications. Taking its lead from the design element, each chapter takes you a step further into evolving your design skills into application development. 
It will look at: 
- Focusing your interface design for ease of use - Shaping up the back end to keep things simple - Delivering complex content, including video 
Using a blend of instructional and inspirational chapters, this book looks at Flash’s strengths – graphical dynamism, interactivity, back-end punch and multimedia delivery. 
- Make gorgeous sites in tiny files with the Drawing API - Look at the marriage of data and beauty with a Flash Family Tree - Create real-feel interfaces that mimic different media - Make XML do the donkey-work in site structure - Ease up you navigation with PHP - Create an entire drawing application - Deliver video and make it interactive with Flash 
...and so much more!

Flash MX Application & Interface Design

MacDonald, Jamie

Ken Jokol

Paul Prudence

Robbie Shepherd

Yard, Todd

Peter Aylward

If you've dabbled with Flash and want to expand your repertoire, this book will teach you what you need to know about ActionScript in a fast-paced tutorial style. The ActionScript language is becoming an increasingly vital part of every Flash designer's toolkit, but it can seem like a scary prospect for the non-programmer. We'll show you how easy it is to create interesting, interactive movies in Flash MX through visual metaphors and worked examples. 
 The aim is to get you up to speed quickly, giving you the skills you need to add extra functionality and control to your Flash movies. By the time you're finished, you should have a good grasp of the core ActionScript concepts and techniques, and plenty of ideas for your own projects. 
 No previous programming experience is required, just a familiarity with the Flash MX interface, and even the most code-phobic reader should find the learning curve to be smooth and easy.

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