actionscript applications accessibility computational

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Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move!

23 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)

5 reviews
Todd Yard, Steve Webster, ...

friends of ED, 2007

ActionScript for both Flash and Flex
Like most of the friends of ED books on Flash and ActionScript, this book by Steve Webster, Todd Yard and Sean McSharry is a good book for the novice. Most beginner's books on ActionScript cover just the basics such as variables, loops and functions and don't go much further. However in this book, the authors go one step further and help the readers to extend their ActionScript skills for both ...

The Essential Guide to Flex 3 (Essential Guide)

3 reviews
Charles E Brown

friends of ED, 2008

Flex at its finest!
I have learned a great deal from this book. Along with taking a course with the author and reading this book I have learned how to do things the correct way and have reaped the rewards from it. I would recommend this book to anyone looking to learn Flex quickly and/or catch up on whats new in Flex 3.

PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy (Solutions)

29 reviews
David Powers

friends of ED, 2006

Start using the PHP examples straight away
I decided I wanted to add PHP to my website to make it more dynamic and reduce maintenance. But I didn't know any PHP. So I picked up PHP Solutions and within an hour or two of opening the front cover, I had converted my website to PHP and added several dynamic features that were demonstrated in the book! This book is brilliant. It provides a good background and understanding of PHP and the ...

Foundation Flash CS3 for Designers (Foundation)

33 reviews
Tom Green, David Stiller

friends of ED, 2007

Solid and Fun
Overall this is five-star survey of Flash CS3, written for people with slight knowledge of earlier versions of Flash and some more familiarity with basic graphic programs (primarily Photoshop and Illustrator) and web design. The treatment of CSS covers most of what any designer or developer will need to know in the course of any average Flash project. The introduction to ActionScript 3.0 is ...

DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model

64 reviews
Jeremy Keith

friends of ED, 2005

Perfect for learning DOM
This book gots it all together well. I love the way the author writes and the way he presents a concept. Its so easy to follow and understand. This book isn't fit for a total beginner..you're going to need at least some experience with Javascript, CSS, and HTML to be able to implement DOM in your javascript. I've never written a review before but after reading 10 chapters of this book, I ...

Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook (Pioneering Series)

51 reviews
Dan Cederholm

friends of ED, 2004

Simple yet Thorough
Through simple illistrations and small code snippets this book covers pretty much what one would need to know in order to create great web 2.0 sites.

Web Standards Creativity: Innovations in Web Design with XHTML, CSS, and DOM Scripting

15 reviews
Andy Budd, Andy Clarke, ...

friends of ED, 2007

Fantastic
Let's start with a warning - this is not a book for beginners. To appreciate it (apart from the "coffee table" usage someone else mentioned), you have to know a lot about CSS, HTML and have decent knowledge of JavaScript and DOM. But once you're there and have a few web design projects behind you, you'll really appreciate all the nuggets in this book. The ideas presented in it, as well as the ...

The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP

21 reviews
David Powers

friends of ED, 2007

This Book Saved Me!
I'm currently taking a class in PHP/MySQL and it's use in eCommerce, and this book has really helped me along the way! The author shows you the ways in which Dreamweaver can help you to reduce your development time, but still produced some really great, dynamic sites. He goes into detail on some of the code as well, which is helpful. Additionally, the author is very honest and recommends other ...

CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions

104 reviews
Andy Budd, Simon Collison, ...

friends of ED, 2006

ERRATA FIXED GREAT BOOK!
OK, so I was a little hesitant to pick up this book despite all the great reviews. It was all the errors that were printed in the book that I was unsure of. Most of these errors were typos but some were errors in the code. If you don't know much about CSS these would be hard to spot. I decided to get the book, which I am still reading, and decided I should hi-light all the errors in the book ...

Foundation ActionScript Animation: Making Things Move! (Foundation)

34 reviews
Keith Peters

friends of ED, 2005

Everything you wanted to know
I'm only on chapter 5, but this book really lays out all of the tools you need to prototype and/or develop video games in Flash. At first I was a little upset because the author seemed to skip over some elements for the beginner, or rather the rusty flash programmer, but he explains just enough so that if you want to dig into it you can. This book probably isn't for the very beginner. You need ...

Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites

4 reviews
Kevin Potts

friends of ED, 2007

Highest Recommendation--Current, Accessible, Complete
"Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites," by Kevin Potts,was first brought to my attention by my wife, Adrienne, a website designer whose business, Cloud Islands, develops business identity plans for internet marketing. She recommended it to me as an extraordinarily useful text. I've found it particularly readable, including the chapters on platforms, content management, ...

Foundation Expression Blend 2: Building Applications in WPF and Silverlight (Foundation)

2 reviews
Victor Gaudioso

friends of ED, 2008

Helps you get started in understanding how to develop in Silverlight.
I bought this book soon after MS released the Beta 1 of Silverlight 2. It helped me get started with learning the Expression Blend tool and how to do some basic design. It is not a programmers book nor does it attempt to be one. It is a good introduction on how to get around in Blend so you don't have to figure it out yourself. And along the way the authour makes it enjoyable.

The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development (The Essential Guide)

1 review
Chris Allen, Wade Arnold, ...

friends of ED, 2008

A Guide to the Moving Target
I saw one copy of this at Powell's Technical Books in Portland yesterday, and picked it up, figuring it was new. It was--just published in the last few weeks. I haven't delved into it as much I would like, but that doesn't matter here because I carefully reviewed the contents before purchase. So: why buy this book? If you're working with Flash and ActionScript 3.0 currently, you know the Flash ...

The Essential Guide to CSS and HTML Web Design (Essential Guide)

8 reviews
Craig Grannell

friends of ED, 2007

Definately worth purchasing.
The short review: I downloaded this off a torrent; I was so impressed with it, that I'm buying it hard copy. It's definately one of those books that works well for a quick reference. The long review: This book probably isn't for absolute gurus, simply because there's too much explanation. I'd probably recommend "The Ultimate CSS Reference" if you've already got a firm foundation and just ...

Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance

9 reviews
Jim Thatcher, Andrew Kirkpatrick, ...

friends of ED, 2006

Web Accessibility - It's all in one place!
Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance is the perfect reference for any site development team. Everything you've wanted to know about Accessibility and the Web is here in a single text. Each member of the team will find necessary information and practical solutions in one or more of the thorough discussions here. For the designer/developer who works alone, Web ...

Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art (Foundation)

4 reviews
Ira Greenberg

friends of ED, 2007

Great tutorial on a simple language that produces beautiful computer art
This is a very good book on the Processing language, which is an object-oriented languaged based on Java that is used for computer art. It allows computer artists to produce attractive computer-generated art without having to become experts on the Java language, Java3D, Java2D, and all of the other associated Java multimedia APIs. The Processing language's home page has considerable tutorial ...

Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0

11 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

Podcast Solutions: The Complete Guide to Audio and Video Podcasting, Second Edition (Solutions)

2 reviews
Michael Geoghegan, Dan Klass

friends of ED, 2007

The perfect book for all podcasters.
Yes that's right, this is the perfect book for any and all podcasters. If you are a podcaster, or want to be one or just want to find out what it's all about buy this book. The title says it all; Podcast Solutions. Chock full of info, written concisely, humorously, intelligently, informatively and in language that anyone can understand (even me) this is the one book to buy on the subject. ...

Foundation Flash Cartoon Animation (Foundation)

6 reviews
Tim Jones, Allan Rosson, ...

friends of ED, 2007

Stretch beyond the mechanics of the Flash tools
There are many books about cartoon animation in Flash. What sets this book apart from the rest is the approach the authors have taken to make this book much more than just another step-by-step book about drawing and animating characters. Foundation Flash Cartoon Animation is for the animator who needs to stretch beyond the mechanics of the Flash tools and perfect the decision-making process ...

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