Essential ActionScript 3.0 (Essential) by Colin Moock
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Book Reviews of Essential ActionScript 3.0 (Essential)
Book Review: Essential ActionScript 3.0 - Colin Moock
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is brilliant. It's encyclopedic. It is a must-have to better understand AS 3 and to hopefully lower your frustration when coding. I am a designer fairly new to AS 3 and found this book gave clear, detailed explanations on every aspect of AS 3. Like an encyclopedia, each chapter breaks down specific core concepts, from Arrays and XML, into their basics. Information is laid out well and can be found quickly simply by looking at the book's table of contents. As a reference book, it fills in the "why" that other books on Flash or on-line tutorials don't have time or space to cover in easy to understand detail. Colin Moock avoids confusing jargon and de-mystifies ActionScipt.Book Review: Extremely helpful!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is awesome.
I learned Actionscript 2.0 through the school of hard-knocks and forums. It was my first real programming language so I learned what it did but not really anything about classes and the construction of flash programs.
This book is extremely detailed, including everything about AS3 such as Object Oriented Programming, constructing classes, and explaining every part of each class. I'm only on page 100 (of 900), but so far, this book exceeds my expectations. If you're worried about any of the negative reviews, just buy this book. It is amazing and was totally worth logging into Amazon and posting this review for.
Book Review: Great book for transition to AS3
Summary: 5 Stars
If you're like me you got pretty settled with your way of working in AS1 and AS2. AS3 was such a radical change, relearning the way you program was daunting. The Flash help documentation, while extensive, wasn't exactly helpful in making the transition. This book was the perfect translation of what I needed to know to make it to the other side of the wall. Most of the books I was finding out there were just rehashes of the way things used to work and were missing the key element of how to adjust your thinking to make a true AS3 switch. Colin Moock has an excellent style of explaining things that an artist/programmer can actually understand. Kudos to Colin!Book Review: I do not understand how any programmer could hate this book. It is brilliantly written.
Summary: 5 Stars
I am amazed at how thorough and organized this book is, but it is from a programmer's perspective. Some people said that this AS 3.0 book is not as good as his previous AS 2.0 book, but I disagree. Adobe has made major changes to the language, which (unfortunately) coerces ActionScript programmers into using object oriented programming techniques. This makes programming more difficult for designers, and more palatable for many programmers. Please don't blame Colin Moock for Adobe's changes ... he has done a brilliant job explaining the new ActionScript.Book Review: Great book!
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent. This book was recommended to me by a colleague, and I can't recommend it enough.
As a C# and VB.NET programmer, I had plenty of experience to jump into the middle, but I found myself enjoying the early chapters so much that I decided not just to skim them, but to read them as carefully as the rest of the book. And in doing so, I was rewarded with tidbits of information that I would have otherwise missed.
Anyone who wants a thorough understanding of ActionScript 3.0 would find this book incredibly valuable.