Macromedia Flash 5 from Scratch

By Cheryl Brumbaugh-Duncan

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789724618
• ISBN13: 9780789724618
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Que Pub
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Great Book! Really helped me learn Flash

I am a Web developer who needed to learn Flash quickly. I got the Computer Arts Special magazine that was devoted to Flash, which recommend this book, Flash from Scratch, as an excellent book (It was rated as the #1 pick). And I whole heartedly agree. I very quickly worked through the first 10 chapters. Learning the fundamentals of Flash and how to implement it in a real world Web site was easy and fun due to the instruction in this book. I am now able to integrate Flash design with my other Web development and design work. I would highly recommend this book for anyone wanting to learn Flash by truly understanding the concepts behind the software and then making things flash!

Thank goodness for good books!

I found the Flash 5 from Scratch book great for learning Flash. Building a real world Web site using Flash was very beneficial for me. It helped me understand how to design in Flash using many of the concepts and techniques needed to create a Web site. Every chapter builds upon the next so you are using skills and concepts covered with new ones. It really helped me understand Flash and how it can be used for Web design. I look forward to other books like this! What a great way to learn. Thank you!

Wonderful Book!!!

I am someone who is highly interested in all things computer I have throughout my computer learning taken note of several different learning kinds. There are those whom want to jump right in and do their thing...without really understanding the why behind the thing they are doing. Then there is the learner that never seems to grasp anything theoretically and is so absorbed on following precise measures from books that when something finally does goes wrong they are just lost without the guidelines. Then there are the more middle learners, that do not take all forms of instruction factualy but also seek to do cool things and can absorb and put together all instuction quite well. This book offers a rarity in computer books today: in-depth, precise, clear explanations of what you are supposed to do to do some cool things when you get your inspiration, and great behind the scenes insight to help you understand why you need to do what to do, to do your cool things. Flash is all the rage today most people are reading books searching for methods that come from graphic designers when these people reading these books clearly are not graphic designers. If you want to learn and figure out how to solve problems through design then buy some graphic design theory books, but don't buy Flash 5 books simply because they offer neat tricks when you don't even understand the individual concepts that combine to make those neat little tricks. To really get far in that end of Flash you will unfortunately have to undertake learning programming theory because all of those tricks make use of programming and that is a separate system ogre of its own. This is certainly the book you want to buy if you are a designer who knows how to do the pretty stuff but you want to put together this into Flash and want to have a complete know how of the program that will allow you to carry out your ideas. This was by far an excellent Flash book and something you don't want to miss!

Flash 5 from Scratch

Great book. I left another that I had stalled on and moved to this book. I managed eight chapters before I knew that I had gone that far. This is a great tool for learning. I am 53 and found it very supportive and great at keeping me wanting to continue succesive chapters once things began to develop. I would strongly reccommend this book to anyone who wanted a basic understanding of Flash 5 and its versatility. Thank you Cheryl - Thank you Macromedia

Macromedia Flash 5 From Scratch

I have been on the search for a year now to find a book that would be really helpful for someone who has no experience with Flash. Flash 4 bible was too complicated and not straight forward, so I was looking for something that would actually teach me the essentials of flash. Not only this book helped me through this but also I got optimistic to find out more, since i had this anxiety of learning flash. It is not as difficult as it seems after all because of this book.