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Flash ActionScript for Designers: Drag, Slide, Fade
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Author: Brendan Dawes
List Price: $45.00
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ISBN: 0735710473
Publisher: New Riders (15 October, 2001)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 60,830
Average Customer Rating: 3.35 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 2 out of 5
missed the mark
This book claims to take the fear out of programming but it jumps right into writing raw code in "Advanced" mode as opposed to coding in "Normal" mode which I would assume to be the logical first step. The author does a good job of introducing the ActionScript language by using metaphors but failed to get me to actually program anything. This book is not for designers, maybe it is for programmers but, I would guess that programmers would require more depth than this book provides.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Great for learning common ActionScript tasks
This book is great for learning how some of the great Flash tricks are done. I'm not a designer or Flash programmer by trade, but after perusing this book I was able to employ my knowledge of similar ECMA languages to ActionScript and create sliding and fading effects as well as a few others.Highly recommended for someone trying to expand their ActionScript toolset. -Steve Parks
Macromedia Certified Instructor
Macromedia Certified Advanced Cold Fusion MX Developer
Cold Fusion Developer's Journal Contributing Author
Rating: 3 out of 5
Has Its Ups and Downs
As others have stated, this book has errors, and what's worse those errors are not even pointed out on the book's website. The least the author/publisher could do is keep the website up-to-date. The good part is this book does contain some interesting effects with ActionScript, but this is not a book for ActionScript beginners. It is for people with either some background in ActionScript already, or with JavaScript. Otherwise, you will be frustrated very quickly. The quality of the physical publication is quite high with excellent paper stock, full color throughout and long book width. New Riders, to their credit, rarely produces cheap physical products. In all, this book has some good meaty content, but poor technical editing to catch the errors mars its overall usefulness; hence the mixed review.
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