Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 700 pages
- Published by: Peer Information
- Edition: 1st Edition May 2001
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1903450357
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1903450352
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Book Dimensions:
9 x 7.5 x 1.5 inches
- Weighs: 2.5 pounds
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These are people who know where you want to go, and they can tell you how to get there. 9/10.
Book Description
ActionScript is Javascript for motion-web designers using Flash. In the summer 2000 release of Flash 5, the capabilities of ActionScript as a fully-fledged scripting language have expanded dramatically. The pressure on web designers using Flash has been seriously stepped up. If you want to compete in state-of-the-art interactive web design, you had better learn ActionScript.
Reader ReviewsThis book is, along with Moock's Actionscript book for O'Reilly, the first really solid book covering programming in Flash 5. That includes good stuff on planning projects, code structuring, OOP, design, and XML much more in depth than any other Flash book I've seen. It is definately advanced, perhaps not to the point of some of the hardcore OOP coders on the Flash lists, but quite complex and more than enough to challenge most readers, which is good. The projects are good and varied, and it seems like Friends of Ed has at last gotten someone to insure that coding styles are reasonably consistant throughout the book--other of their Flash books have been essentially collections of inconsistant and often incompatible articles. The usual suspects do show up (spaceship games and rotating 3D cubes), but presented with a level of detail and thoroughness totally absent in other books (short tutorial in matrix math anyone?) The great chapters on Sound and XML are almost worth the price alone, but the standout chapter is called "Creativity in Practice" and covers invaluable stuff like: working in teams, interaction planning, prototyping, information architecture, even some usability. In other words, the stuff that professional designers do the 80% of the time they're not messing around with software. It's exciting to see these topics appear in what could have been just another coding book. I won't dock it a star, but one qualm is that it doesn't come with a CD (again contrary to Kevin's review below). You have to download about 80Megs of files from the publishers site. Come on guys, if there's no CD at least knock a few bucks off the price. And even at high-speeds, that 80Meg download is kind of a pain.
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