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Author:
Keith Peters
By FRIENDS OF ED
Average Customer Rating: 
List Price: £31.49
Our Price: £3.13
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 A fun read and a bit of physics, 2009-10-14
The example scripts are a little outdated being mainly built in the Flash IDE and not in what most serious developers would use (Flex, FlashBuilder etc...).
Saying this I must admit it's not very important as it is more about the basic motion && user interaction concepts it provides in very good detail for the basics to get started in making things more organic etc... I would not say it will turn you into a cutting edge games developer but is one step from Application developer in this direction.
If you are new to AS3 I would recommend buying this book with a more serious up to date Flex/AS3 book.
Better late than never!, 2005-11-23
This is the book! This is the most complete book about acionscript I've never bought. Don't get me wrong, colin mook is amazing with his books, but they will always stay a reference book for pure actionscript syntax and concept behind what and why use certain language. But this book is the book that tell you how make ALL those cool animation that you really need and that we all see on the web. It tells you why certain things moves like this and the author is a superb teacher. Really, don't get this review as a WOW review, get it as a fact. Like things bouncing uh? and how about moving things super smooth? peeps this book is what we were waiting for so long. It's here finally. Better late than never! (a pure, simple, nice actionscript lesson about creating what we really would like to do).
Excellent, 2006-01-14
I really love this book. In the first 40 pages I've learned more actionscript than from two other books. Keith Peters concentrates on the important things, leaving away the useless clutter.
It is an interesting read, also if you don't specially want to program animations. By the way, don't miss the foreword from Aral Balkan.
Great Book, 2005-12-26
This is a great book if your trying to learn actionscript rather than using Flash tweening. It helps with the basics and will be of interest to a wide range of people from those who want to learn basic animation to those wanting to write there own flash games. The book will gives you a good set of techniques that you will be able to use in your own Flash projects. Maybe not for the total flash beginner as some of the chapters cover trigonometry, rendering, collision dectection, kinematics, and 3D flash. Written for Flash MX2004 and Flash 8. A nice buy for those wanting to extend their flash animation knowledge.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.78
EAN: 9781590595183
ISBN: 1590595181
Label: FRIENDS OF ED
Manufacturer: FRIENDS OF ED
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: 2005-10-01
Publisher: FRIENDS OF ED
Studio: FRIENDS OF ED |
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