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Macromedia Flash MX ActionScript Bible
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Author: Robert Reinhardt, Joey Lott
List Price: $49.99
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ISBN: 0764536141
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (22 August, 2002)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 48,922
Average Customer Rating: 4.37 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
just BADD
its really of of the least organized computer books ever.. bad starting point.. advanced examples starting from chapter one.. just gives u really HARD time.. im glad i just got it on a library loan and im gonna give it back... DONT WASTE UR MONEY
Rating: 3 out of 5
Bad Math
Coming from a math backgroung and trying to learn Actionscript, I have some serious reservations about the mathematical examples in this book. The authors seem to take the most convoluted longwinded routes to make thier points wherever math is involved, and thus cloud the point they are trying to make. Furthermore, they seem to use the old Flash 5 methodology for event handling instead of updating to the newer methodology that is more consistent with OOP. Otherwise, I am still reading this and some other Actionscript books looking for the right fit.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Really focused on intermediate to advanced
I own both Flash MX Bible and this Flash MX ActionScript Bible, and to my opinion, neither of both have a comprehensive starting point. When one starts defining the use of functions AND arrays together, the other begins explaining the use of operators. The chapter ends with an extravagant example of a color object use WITHOUT explaining how the bitwise operators actually did the work. The result is that I still don't see the practical use of bitwise operators. Every chapter is the same. It ends with an example beyond the scope of what was just explained in that chapter.I feel that author Joey Lott understands this subject so well that at many points forgets that many readers in the audience are native beginners, that unless they have grasped the concepts someplace else, they would be absolutely lost. Not to mention typos, like listing mismatches and so on. Yet, I rate this book with 4 stars because of the outstanding quality of its knowledge and better approach to solve most common problems in everyday work. They would usually deliver an easier (at least more practical) way to overcome a particular scripting need.
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