Essential ActionScript 3.0 (Essential) by Colin Moock
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Book Reviews of Essential ActionScript 3.0 (Essential)
Book Review: In response to bad reviews...
Summary: 5 Stars
I think far too many people are used to reading For Dummies or Head Start books and they have forgotten how to learn. The few low scores this book has received are due to a couple of factors: 1. The readers don't have the mental capacity to grasp the concepts. 2. They're trying to read through the book without memorizing keywords and concepts (this lead someone to refer to the nomenclature as technical jargon which it is not). 3. They want to start creating immediately and jump right into applicable content instead of starting off with the basics and building on them.
This is by far the most precise programming book I've ever read. I love his clear and concise style of writing and simple definitions. It is NOT a "For Idiots" style book. Moock Defines keywords in one sentence. It is imperative that you memorize the keywords and concepts before moving on. Work through the code until you understand it. I spent about 50-60 hours in the first 6 chapters.
Book Review: Great AS3 Code Book!
Summary: 5 Stars
Among all the AS3 books out there, this is a great book! If... You are an EXPERIENCED programmer with a few years or more of industry programming background. I would not present this book to a non-programmer or someone with very little programming experience, otherwise you will 'die on the vine' with all the technical jargon in this book. I see some people misinterpret the title ILLUSTRATED. It does illustrated the constructs of code building, not in terms of pics or graphics. I am new to ActionScript and Flash, but not to programming. I own a soft copy of this book, but have purchased a hard copy. This book thoroughly explains the topic to its 'nuts and bolts' level for programmers that is easy to follow and understand. If you truly wish to learn ActionScript 3.0 from the bottom up and you are an experienced programmer, this is the book to do it with. This book will make an excellent reference when needed on occasion, too.Book Review: Great actionscript 3 book!
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't know why some comments describe this book (it is not for beginners)?
I'm not so good in flash or actionscript 1, I can't write a good program because I don't understand object-oriented and also I didn't study programming before, I just started with actionscript 1, for that I sorted my self as beginner!
But I can understand the book (although I'm not English speaker), it's not too difficult, perhaps some topics or chapters little difficult, so I repeated reading till I understand.
I tried to read another books about actionscript 3 and all of them have main problem, there are no systematic informations or terms and basics simplification, all I got from these books codes to copy it to my programs!
I give this book 5 stars because I feel the writer try to make me understand, for that it's the best book I have read about actionscript 3.
Book Review: excellent
Summary: 5 Stars
it may be possible to learn actionscript with no previous knowledge using this book and for the dedicated individual i would encourage it. it's a much more complete explanation of how things actually work instead of just throwing code at you to copy. it'd take you a lot longer to get up and running than from a book strictly for beginners but at the end you'd be a lot better off. yeah the first chapter being about classes is a little heavy, but making your main class is the first thing you'd normally do. may as well get in the habit early.
i would say the audience that could get the most benefit from this are those who have a good understanding of some other language and would like to apply that to the particular syntax of actionscript. i learned to use as by reading through the language reference, and this book was helpful in filling in some gaps in my knowledge.
Book Review: EA3 is even better than EA2
Summary: 5 Stars
I was new to OOP, having come from the timeline world of Flash. I tried Essential AS 2 and found it helpful to a point, after which the author seemed to presume that I had already worked with other OOP languages.
AS3 is just as comprehensive as AS2, for the advanced programmer, but so much easier for the beginning student. Colin spoon-feeds the basic OOP concepts for the first few chapters and then dives into getting work done with AS3.
What a joy to read! I'm finally creating projects, instead of reading code samples, like I did in EA2.
This is a great reference and teaching tool. If you work with Flash or Flex, this is a "must-have" for your library.