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Essential ActionScript 3.0 (Essential)
Author: Colin Moock
ISBN: 0596526946
Publisher: Adobe Dev Library
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Description: ActionScript 3.0 is a huge upgrade to Flash's programming language. The enhancements to ActionScript's performance, feature set, ease of use, cleanliness, and sophistication are considerable. Essential ActionScript 3.0 focuses on the core language and object-oriented programming, along with the Flash Player API. Essential ActionScript has become the #1 resource for the Flash and ActionScript development community, and the reason is the author, Colin Moock. Many people even refer to it simply as "The Colin Moock book."
Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move!
Author: Keith Peters
ISBN: 1590597915
Publisher: friends of ED
Retail Price: $39.99 Available From: Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Buy.com
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Description: In this book, you'll learn:
-All the ActionScript 3.0 (including math and trigonometry functions) and Flash rendering techniques you'll need to start animating with code
-Basic motion principles such as velocity, acceleration, friction, easing, and bouncing
-How to handle user interaction via the keyboard and mouse
-Advanced motion techniques such as springs, coordinate rotation, conservation of momentum, and forward and inverse kinematics
-All the basic 3D concepts you need to do 3D in Flash, from simple perspective to full 3D solids complete with backface culling and dynamic lighting
Flash has long been one of the most approachable, user-friendly tools for creating web-based animations, games, and applications. This has contributed to making it one of the most widely used programs for creating interactive web content. With each new version of Flash, ActionScript, its built-in scripting language, has become more powerful and a little more complex, too. ActionScript, now at version 3.0, has significantly matured as a programming language, bringing power and speed only previously dreamed about to Flash-based animation, going far beyond traditionally used keyframes and tweens.
ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook: Solutions for Flash Platform and Flex Application Developers
Author: Joey Lott
ISBN: 0596526954
Publisher: Adobe Dev Library
Retail Price: $39.99 Available From: Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Buy.com
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Description: Well before Ajax and Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation hit the scene, Macromedia offered the first method for building web pages with the responsiveness and functionality of desktop programs with its Flash-based "Rich Internet Applications". Now, new owner Adobe is taking Flash and its powerful capabilities beyond the Web and making it a full-fledged development environment.
Rather than focus on theory, the ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook concentrates on the practical application of ActionScript, with more than 300 solutions you can use to solve a wide range of common coding dilemmas. You'll find recipes that show you how to:
-Detect the user's Flash Player version or their operating system
-Build custom classes
-Format dates and currency types
-Work with strings
-Build user interface components
-Work with audio and video
-Make remote procedure calls using Flash Remoting and web services
-Load, send, and search XML data
ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns: Object Oriented Programming Techniques
Author: William Sanders
ISBN: 0596528469
Publisher: Adobe Dev Library
Retail Price: $39.99 Available From: Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Buy.com
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Description: This hands-on introduction to design patterns is for experienced Flash developers ready to tackle sophisticated programming techniques with ActionScript 3.0. Now that ActionScript has been reengineered from top to bottom as a true object-oriented programming (OOP) language, reusable design patterns are an ideal way to solve common problems in Flash applications. But learning ActionScript 3.0 is a challenge for anyone without adding this extra learning curve.
Flash MX 2004 ActionScript 2.0 Dictionary
Author: Macromedia and Flash Experts
ISBN: 0321228413
Publisher: Macromedia Press
Retail Price: $24.99 Available From: Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Buy.com
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Description: If you're a true Flash master and we're betting you are you know that the real power behind the throne in Macromedia's wildly popular Web animation software is its programming language: ActionScript 2.0. Offering a more robust programming model and better object-oriented programming support than ever before, ActionScript 2.0 allows you to take your Flash MX 2004 designs to new levels—if, that is, you know how to make full use of it. This volume, from the folks behind the software, makes sure that you do! In this highly cross-referenced dictionary, you'll find detailed descriptions of every ActionScript operator, keyword, statement, action, property, function, object, component, and method. What's more, an invaluable chart will help you locate definitions for symbolic operators or methods even when you don't know the object or component class.
Foundation ActionScript for Flash MX
Author: Sham Bangal
ISBN: 1590591666
Publisher: friends of Ed
Retail Price: $29.99 Available From: Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Buy.com
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Description: One of the biggest compliments paid to a friends of ED book last year was Amazon.com's judgment that "Foundation Actionscript is perhaps one of the finest introductory programming books ever written". With the release of Flash MX, scripting in Flash has moved from being a desirable asset to an essential skill in the world of web design. It's also become a whole lot more difficult, and the major advances with Flash MX are code based. If you're scared of the idea of code, but even more scared of missing out, this is the book for you. This is no simple re-write - with the help of friends of ED Flash guru Sham Bhangal, Foundation ActionScript has been re-written from beginning to end, with the addition of substantial new material to reflect the major changes bought about with Flash MX. If you've never coded in Flash, you're going to want to very soon. This book will make that desire reality, with fully worked examples and a chapter-by-chapter case study that turns into a fully fledged top ActionScript site by the end of the book. Book Info Written from beginning to end, with the addition of substantial new material to reflect the major changes brought about with Flash MX.
ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition
Author: Colin Moock
ISBN: 059600396X
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Retail Price: $54.95 Available From: Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Buy.com
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Description: It's a challenge to write a book for a wide audience without weakening its effectiveness for any one group. Flash 4 Bible provides a clear and thorough introduction to Flash 4 for beginners as well as a comprehensive guide to the application's more complex features, like ActionScripting, for intermediate and advanced users. No one gets shortchanged here.
Robert Penner's Programming Macromedia Flash MX
Author: Robert Penner
ISBN: 0072223561
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Retail Price: $39.99 Available From: Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Buy.com
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Description: Renowned Flash wizard and innovator Robert Penner reveals the fascinating programming and design concepts behind his signature creations. Detailing his groundbreaking designs, this book showcases Penner's work that merges math and design with Flash. You'll get an inside look at his sophisticated and unique approach to design--which incorporates advanced ActionScript programming--and discover exclusive techniques associated with some of the most groundbreaking interactive designs ever created.
Object-Oriented Programming with ActionScript
Author: Branden Hall, Samuel Wan
ISBN: 0735711836
Publisher: New Riders Publishing
Retail Price: $39.99 Available From: Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Buy.com
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Description: Two of the smarter young guns you'll meet in the Flash development world, Branden Hall and Samuel Wan, go back a way with New Riders, having contributed to *Flash 4 Magic* under the mentorship of J. Scott Hamlin. Sam and Branden didn't know each other at the time and followed their unique trajectories until they met at Flash Forward 2001 SF and clicked. Marathon coding sessions, creative problem-solving chains, and other such intellectual pursuits followed, culminating in a con call between Branden, Sam, and two New Riders editors.
Macromedia Flash MX Designer's ActionScript Reference
Author: Sham Bangal, John Davey
ISBN: 1903450586
Publisher: friends of Ed
Retail Price: $49.99 Available From: Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Buy.com
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Description: This doorstop provides the Flash MX designer with a rich reference for all things ActionScript-related. It features a designer-oriented A-Z reference of the ActionScript language, all appropriately demonstrated in FLAs on the accompanying CD. These examples illustrate ActionScript in context – that is, in the combinations that you're likely to encounter them in the real world. The book also has substantial narrative sections that cover global approaches to solving common design problems with ActionScript. This book is designer-focused, and aims to be the richest and most practical ActionScript reference on the market.
Flash MX: Advanced ActionScript
Author: James Mohler
ISBN: 0766829103
Publisher: OnWord Press
Retail Price: $42.95 Available From: Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Buy.com
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Description: Macromedia's Flash has taken the web world by storm, establishing itself as the de facto industry standard for web graphics applications. With the release of Flash 5, more and more users are tackling the demanding issues of advanced development and integration. In this timely new book, Purdue University's rising Computer Graphics star James Mohler picks up where his best-selling Flash 5: Graphics, Animation & Interactivity leaves off, presenting advanced solutions designed to help users extend the awesome power of Flash.
ActionScripting in Flash MX
Author: Phillip Kerman
ISBN: 0735712956
Publisher: Sams
Retail Price: $39.99 Available From: Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Buy.com
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Description: Tap into the full power of Flash MX by learning how and when to employ ActionScripting. ActionScripting in Flash MX is structured into 2 parts. In the Foundation section readers learn general programming theory and how it applies to Flash. Then the book progresses through more complex Flash ActionScripting applications, including functions, arrays, objects, components, and interfacing with external data. Short tasks and real-world analogies demonstrate specific concepts. In the Workshop section, the reader actually builds practical applications that range in complexity from beginner to advanced. At the end of the Workshop section, the reader will actually debug broken scripts.
Macromedia Flash MX ActionScript for Fun and Games (with CD-ROM)
Author: Gary Rosenzweig
ISBN: 0789727994
Publisher: Pearson Education
Retail Price: $45.00 Available From: Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Buy.com
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Description: Anyone with moderate Macromedia Flash experience who is looking to acquire or improve their understanding of ActionScript will find this book a valuable resource. Author Gary Rosenzweig is highly respected in the Macromedia community and pioneered the use of advanced programming techniques in Macromedia Flash. For this edition, he has updated the games from the previous edition and has added several new projects. Each chapter studies and then deconstructs a new type of game or gadget such as hunt and click games, catch and avoid games, or action and adventure games and the CD contains the project source code.
Macromedia Flash MX: Training from the Source
Author: Chrissy Rey
ISBN: 0201794829
Publisher: Macromedia Press
Retail Price: $44.99 Available From: Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Buy.com
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Description: With the introduction of Flash MX, the folks at Macromedia have transformed a pretty cool designer's tool for Web-based interaction into a full-fledged, professional-level application for developing sophisticated online content. Serious tools, however, typically require some serious instruction-and Flash MX is no exception. Luckily for you, there's Macromedia Flash: Training from the Source.
Foundation ActionScript for Macromedia Flash MX
Author: Sham Bhangal, Ben Renow-Clarke
ISBN: 190345073X
Publisher: friends of Ed
Retail Price: $29.99 Available From: Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Buy.com
Status: Usually ships within 24 hours |
Description: With the release of Flash MX, scripting in Flash has moved from being a desirable asset to an essential skill in the world of web design. It's also become a whole lot more difficult, and the major advances with Flash MX are code based. If you're scared of the idea of code, but even more scared of missing out, this is the book for you.
This is no simple re-write - with the help of friends of ED Flash guru Sham Bhangal, Foundation ActionScript has been re-written from beginning to end, with the addition of substantial new material to reflect the major changes bought about with Flash MX.
If you've never coded in Flash, you're going to want to very soon. This book will make that desire reality, with fully worked examples and a chapter-by-chapter case study that turns into a fully fledged top ActionScript site by the end of the book.
Object-Oriented Macromedia Flash MX
Author: William Drol
ISBN: 1590590147
Publisher: aPress
Retail Price: $44.95 Available From: Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Buy.com
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Description: Teaches object-oriented programming skills using Flash MX ActionScript. Assumes no previous programming experience and encourages Flash users who normally avoid ActionScript. For readers who want to do more than load and publish the pre-built Flash MX templates. Softcover.
Macromedia Flash MX ActionScripting: Advanced Training from the Source
Author: Derek Franklin, Jobe Makar
ISBN: 0201770229
Publisher: Macromedia Press
Retail Price: $44.99 Available From: Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Buy.com
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Description: Macromedia Flash MX ActionScripting: Advanced Training From the Source teaches readers ActionScript using a hands-on, project-based approach. This book will be different in several ways. Instead of just explaining how scripting works, explains scripting by translating real-life activities into scripts, so that users can begin to see the association of how programming and scripting is something they instinctively already know how to do. Readers will be shown many methodologies and techniques for building nearly thirty real-life Flash ActionScript projects, including sample games, wireless applications, Web sites, and more, enabling them to work faster and more efficiently. The companion CD-ROM contains all project files and images necessary for each project in the book.
Flash ActionScript: f/x & Design
Author: Bill Sanders
ISBN: 157610821X
Publisher: The Coriolis Group
Retail Price: $44.99 Available From: Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Buy.com
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Description: ActionScript for Flash 5 is a quantum leap from previous versions of this scripting language for Flash. Using ActionScript the Flash 5 developer can add interactive functionality like never before, and this book explains and shows how to get the most out of Flash 5 using AcitonScript. The book covers all major concepts in ActionScript for Flash 5 including the actions (statements), operators (which have changed significantly from previous versions.
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