Learning ActionScript 3.0: A Beginner’s Guide | Book Review
Author: Evan Mullins | Filed under: reviewRich Shupe and Zevan Rosser’s Learning ActionScript 3.0: A Beginner’s Guide.
This book is published by O’Reilly and is part of the Adobe Developer Library.
This book was a great way for me to move into as3. I’m coming from a visual design background with little formal programming training, to know more of my background check my about page. Being mostly self taught, I found myself learning about basic programming skills with this book. This book helped me catch up to the as3 world and I began doing some really cool things in flash once I had a base for understanding all the differences and new things in as3.
I really enjoyed the visual aspects of this book as well. Many of the diagrams and illustrations have the hand drawn look. Like so:
I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to better understand actionscript and actionscrip3 more specifically. It’s a great helper at migrating from as2 to as3. On the cover, it claims to teach “everything needed for non-traditional programmers–web designers, GUI-based Flash developers, those new to Actionscript, visual learners–to understand how Actionscript works and how to use it in everyday projects.” I would agree with that whole-heartedly. All I can say is that after reading it and working through some of the samples included, I better understand AS3 and am confident that through the foundation it has helped me lay I will soon become an actionscript ninja.
Thanks Ryan and Zevan!
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Just came across your post by accident but wanted to add my 2 cents. Your comments about the book are spot on, its a great resource for people moving over to AS 3 and even seasoned developers to give a once over. I have known Rich for a while (he was a big help with my personal website http://flashbum.com) and have always been a fan of the way he can simplify and explain code. I have a few other books to suggest as well: http://flashartofwar.com/2008/05/25/what-am-i-reading/. Thanks for the post, I know Rich would appreciate the good press.
Hi, Just found your blog, great stuff here`-`
I would like to say that I feel this is the best book on actionscript ever written!
Rich was even nice enough to answer my e-mails too, what a great guy`-`
I also found out that he is teaching a class here in Hawaii, I can’t wait!
hay can anyone tell me where to download the source files of the book ….
Evan Mullins Reply:
February 10th, 2010 at 10:10 am
@Shammi – this book doesn’t really include files, it does have a companion website though, it’d be a good place to start: learningactionscript3.com