Advanced Flash 5, ActionScript in Action

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Summary: Excellent teaching methods - proofreaders apply please
Review: This is a good book and well worth its price. I especially liked the smartclip chapter and the keyboard has been very busy with me putting what I learned to good use. If you are a game writer this may be an excellent book for you also. There is a caveat here, however. The book is filled with errors, references that aren't there, missing flas, flas with "work" already done when they are meant to be the ones readers practice with. No doubt this was due to deadlines. Still [sigh]. This is a good book for getting used to writing your code from scratch. No references to the "normal" actionscript mode, so you more or less have to type away. Not a bad thing. If, however, you are the kind of person that is very "linear" and do not do well when you have to figure out why something doesn't work when you did ALL the steps correctly - this may not be the book for you.

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Summary: Dan's the Flash Man
Review: This is the third actionscript book I've bought and the last. It has everything I needed - great examples, rock-solid code, seriously professional yet friendly explanations, complete reference, cool web site. It covers games, ecommerce front ends, funky effects, XML, and it's just darn easy to read and understand - that's really why I like it. It's one of the top 3 computer books I've read - ever. Like I said, Dan's the Flash Man.