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ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University

10 reviews
Gary Rosenzweig

Que, 2007

Excellent practical book for moving from AS2 to AS3
I got interested in this book after discovering Gary Rosenzweig's AS3 tutorials on his Flash Game University Website. I was impressed by his ability to explain things clearly and simply. As other reviews have already stated "AS3 Game Programming University" is an excellent and highly readable book for learning AS3. In practice I find it much more helpful than Colin Moock's book "Essential ...

Essential ActionScript 2.0

43 reviews
Colin Moock

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2004

Top-Tier Computer Science Course in a Book
I took a Java course at the University of Texas @ Austin, which has a well regarded CS program, and I walked out of it knowing what classes, subclasses, and instances were, but no idea how to practically use them. After reading Moock's book, I not only better understand the theory behind object-oriented programming, but how to use it following best practices. I wish I hadn't taken the Java ...

ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook: Solutions for Flash Platform and Flex Application Developers

33 reviews
Joey Lott, Darron Schall, ...

Adobe Dev Library, 2006

Exactly What the Title Says - No More No Less
This book is about ActionScript ONLY. when I bought it, I was hoping to find cookbook solutions for Flash and/or Flex IDE and all the step-by-step color illustrations and the cool visual effects that you can implement with those IDEs. That is not really what this book is geared for. So when I first started this review, I really wanted to give it a less-than-5-star rating, but I realized I can't ...

ActionScript 3.0 Bible

10 reviews
Roger Braunstein, Mims H. Wright, ...

Wiley, 2007

Great Introduction To ActionScript 3
I am an experienced programmer who knows Java very well, and I was looking to learn ActionScript 3 so as to be able to build Flash applications. I found this book very easy to read and to understand, and the examples easy to put in practice. Sure, there are a few errors here and there (including in the code, which may confound a truly inexperienced programmer, but also make him think a bit to ...

Essential ActionScript 3.0 (Essential) (Essential)

55 reviews
Colin Moock

Adobe Dev Library, 2007

I do not understand how any programmer could hate this book. It is brilliantly written.
I am amazed at how thorough and organized this book is, but it is from a programmer's perspective. Some people said that this AS 3.0 book is not as good as his previous AS 2.0 book, but I disagree. Adobe has made major changes to the language, which (unfortunately) coerces ActionScript programmers into using object oriented programming techniques. This makes programming more difficult for ...

Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move!

25 reviews
Keith Peters

friends of ED, 2007

A Great ActionScript 3 Book!
If you're new to AS 3 and have some kind of OOP (Object Oriented Programming) experience in your past or none at all then this book is right up your alley...an experienced programmer may find this book a little simplistic. Anyway, I've always had a problem understanding programming concepts because I could never apply them to real world applications. All through college while taking JAVA, VB, ...

Foundation ActionScript 3.0 with Flash CS3 and Flex (Foundation)

7 reviews
Todd Yard, Steve Webster, ...

friends of ED, 2007

A very good book
I've benefited a lot from the user reviews on Amazon.com so I figured I should contribute and give back. I have no association with the authors or the publisher. I purchased this book after reading the reviews on Amazon. I am a programmer with experience in Java, PHP, C#, JavaScript, ASP, Visual Basic, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL Server, and now ActionScript 3.0! "Foundation ...

Learning ActionScript 3.0: A Beginner's Guide

35 reviews
Rich Shupe, Zevan Rosser

O'Reilly/Adobe Developer Library, 2008

Great book for someone stuck between a beginner and intermediate AS3 Programming
I have worked with Action Script in the past on many projects but I never took advantage of the real programming capabilities that Action Script 3 has to offers, so I wanted to find a book to help me take the next step and this is the one. I got this book and I was immediately hooked because it was written in a way that makes you feel comfortable and relaxed instead of intimidated. This book ...

ActionScript 3.0 for Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Hands-On Training

13 reviews
Todd Perkins

Peachpit Press, 2007

The best AS3 book for a beginner
The author takes you step-by-step through useful examples that make the learning flow very easily from basic to intermediate. The style is crisp, with just the right amount of humor. Perfect to get your grounding if you are just getting into ActionScript 3.0

Advanced ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns

18 reviews
Joey Lott, Danny Patterson

Adobe Press, 2006

excellent concise info on AS3
I realize the book title (and the focus and organization) is about design patterns, but I thought it was worth adding the fact that--for me at least--it's the one book I keep coming back to for great lucent coverage of really key AS3 concepts including event dispatching (and using IEventDispatcher instead). I mean, Colin's Essential AS3 is one to turn to for definitive answers on sub-atomic (and ...

ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns: Object Oriented Programming Techniques (Adobe Developer Library)

10 reviews
William Sanders, Chandima Cumaranatunge

Adobe Dev Library, 2007

A pick for any advanced programmer's library.
College-level and specialty computer libraries covering web development will find William Sanders & Chandima Cumaranatunge's ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns an excellent acquisition, covering common problems in Flash and Flex applications and providing developers with the tools necessary to adopt superior design patterns. From key components of ActionScript 3.0 and its characteristics to the ...

Flash 8 ActionScript Bible

23 reviews
Joey Lott, Robert Reinhardt

Wiley, 2006

Practical, Powerful and Complete Book
This is a very easy-reading book (Not that easy-reading, of course, as everybody would expect from a computer language book, but you know what I mean). It is not dull to remember you that you should be familiar with the Flash 8 environment before buying this book. The first part of the book, the Getting Started, has many useful details. Maybe there are more details than the needed at the ...

Flash ActionScript for Dummies

1 review
Doug Sahlin

For Dummies, 2001

EASY TO READ
Loved this book. ActionScript was such a mystery to me but this book really made it easy to understand. I am an instructor and technical writer who has been called on to teach Flash. The Actionscript stuff had me stumped; but this book really helped me pick up a few tricks that really are impressive. It is the only book I ever read on the subject that is not boring. This guy definitely has a ...

Beginning ActionScript 2.0 (Wrox Beginning Guides)

5 reviews
Nathan Derksen, Jeff Berg

Wrox, 2006

Complete book on learning ActionScript
Macomedia Flash has been around for awhile now and most know what it is and what kinds of things you can do for it. But most poeple do not know the power behind the scenes in the Flash programming language called ActionScript. This book explains how ActionScript is as a programming language first, then how it is as a development platform for enriching your Flash applications. The hardest part ...

How to Cheat in Flash CS3: The art of design and animation in Adobe Flash CS3

39 reviews
Chris Georgenes

Focal Press, 2007

aha moments
This book is good all around, but has several of those aha nuggets that make it a very happy purchase.

Foundation ActionScript Animation: Making Things Move! (Foundation)

35 reviews
Keith Peters

friends of ED, 2005

Essential read for every actionscripter
I have read a lot of books, covering a lot of subjects. This must be one of the more complex subjects (trigonometry mainly), yet one of the easiest to understand. Keith Peters does an awesome job of explaining every little trig secret you never thought you needed to know. I was lucky enough to glance inside this book, just when I was starting with actionscript. I own this book for about a year ...

Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0

13 reviews
Todd Yard, Peter Elst, ...

friends of ED, 2007

great book
this book will help you to code more properly in actionscript, to get the maximum of this book you must know actionscript 3 and basic object-oriented programming. it is not an easy book, but if you will grasp all the concepts and implement them then you will be the perfect as3 programmer

ActionScript 3.0: Visual QuickStart Guide
Derrick Ypenburg

Peachpit Press, 2008

ActionScript is the programming language integral to the Adobe Technology Platform. It began as a simple scripting language for creating interactivity and animation in Flash, but is now used to create full-featured Web applications, not only in Flash but in Flex. ActionScript 3, introduced with Flex 2, is now a full-fledged object-oriented programming language, and the need for teaching materials, for both newcomers and veterans, is great. This ...

The Essential Guide to Flex 2 with ActionScript 3.0

41 reviews
Charles E Brown

friends of ED, 2007

Straight to the point
Let me quote Mr. Brown from the introduction in this book. "After years of doing technical training, where I have only a few days to cover large topics, I have learned to substitute shorter explanations that clarify a concept in place or larger more technical (and often confusing) explanations." - Charles E. Brown The author gets straight point with more code and less explanations. I've ...

The ActionScript 3.0 Quick Reference Guide: For Developers and Designers Using Flash CS4 Professional
David Stiller, Rich Shupe, ...

Adobe Dev Library, 2008

If you're ready to develop Rich Internet Applications with Flash, learning ActionScript 3.0 is a must. This Quick Answer Guide is designed specifically to help Flash designers and developers make the leap from AS2 to AS3 quickly and painlessly. Written by Flash insiders with extensive knowledge of the technology, this guide points out the key differences between AS2 and the new object-oriented version of the language -- such as where your ...

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