Foundation ActionScript for Flash MX

By Sham Bhangal, Ben Renow-Clarke, Ben Renow-Clarke Sham Bhangal

With the release of Flash MX, scripting in Flash moved from being a desirable asset to an essential skill in the world of web design. ActionScript is, quite simply, the center of power in Flash, and it's no surprise that most of the advances in Flash MX are script-centric.
Flash is a design tool, and ActionScript can easily scare designers. This book is for anyone who has ever looked in awe at a cutting-edge Flash site, then taken a look at some code, and run in the other direction. Learning ActionScript with friends of ED will not turn you into a boring programmer, it will turn you into someone who finally has the power to achieve what they want with their web design.
This book will take you from knowing nothing about ActionScript to a firm knowledge that will allow you to exercise a previously unimaginable amount of power over your flash movies. It does this with fully-0worked examples throughout, and a case study that will leave you with a cutting-edge Flash site by the end of the book.
The book assumes no previous knowledge of code or ActionScript, but does assume that you know the basics of the Flash interface, and have maybe created some basic timeline-based movies with tweens and so on. (If you're totally new to Flash, then you might want to take a look at friends of ED's acclaimed Foundation Flash MX, or at the more visually-oriented Flash MX Express.)
Foundation ActionScript--with the help of friends of ED Flash guru Sham Bhangal, Foundation ActionScript has been re-structured and re-written to reflect the major changes in ActionScript brought about with Flash MX. Just compare the table of contents if you don't believe us

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590591666
• ISBN13: 9781590591666
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.6" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Good book for beginning actionscript auteurs

This book is a solid starting point for people interested in making dynamic flash sites with actionscript. It's written in a casual tone, so it's not too dry. However, I do recommend some knowledge of object oriented programming (javascript) because the logic of writing actionscript will be foreign to people who are beginners or have only worked with HTML. However, the lessons are presented in an easy to understand way, with...

One of the better actionscript books

This is an excellent actionscript book for designers (beginners) who don't like geeky terminology. It leads the reader slowly and the layout is very organized. After you read this book, you'll surely become a well-rounded actionscripter. Compared to other books like Peachpit Actionscript, this book is much better.

This book makes learning fun.

This is an excellent book if you want to learn action script and you have no programming background. It explains in a friendly and easy to understand way how to program in action script. It places the action script code in a real world context and builds from there. I actually enjoyed learning action script. I highly recommend this book!

one star?

I was looking at the various Flash MX books and I noticed another reviewer gave this book one star. Wow. I'm totally surprised. I found this book very helpful. It thoroughly teaches the basics of actionscript programming but more than telling you "type this here" it explains exactly why you should type this or that here or there. This book gave me the building blocks I needed to understand actionscripting in Flash MX...