ActionScript 2.0 Essential Training [CD-ROM]

Joey Lott (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2004

ActionScript 2.0 is a powerful scripting language that allows you to create complex and highly interactive Flash applications. In ActionScript 2.0 Essential Training, Joey Lott will teach you the essential skills and reveal the insider information you need to begin developing Flash applications. The training begins with an overview of programming terms and concepts used in ActionScript such as datatypes, variables, expressions and operators, switch statements, arrays, functions, etc., and then quickly moves on to show apply the concepts using practical examples. While this training title was recorded in the Flash MX 2004 interface, it is appropriate for users of Flash 8 as well. Exercise files accompany the tutorial, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.

Topics Include:

• The work environment
• Datatypes and variables
• Expressions
• Variables
• Objects
• Arrays
• Movie clips
• Buttons
• CSS in Flash
• Sound
• Video in Flash

Duration: 10 hours
On 1 CD-ROM

Editorial Reviews

Review

Learning ActionScript 2.0 in Macromedia Flash MX 2004 is one of the best instructional training programs I've used. -- Bill Perry, Flashdevices.net, January 23, 2004

From the Publisher

Each lynda.com CD/DVD course offers hours of training movies that you watch on your computer. The movies are recorded in pixel-perfect quality, and include the authors' narration and movements as they teach the subject matter. Courses include the same project files that the instructors use, so you can follow along at your own pace. lynda.com tutorials are great for visual learners and people who like to learn by doing. Topics include software applications, workflow optimization, tips and techniques, and much more. Play, fast-forward, and rewind for easy learning.

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Product Details

• CD-ROM: 600 pages
• Publisher: lynda.com, Inc (February 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1930727682
• ISBN-13: 978-1930727687
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,482,120 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Buy- If you like to watch people type!, December 10, 2007

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D. Syverson (WastedMoney, U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ActionScript 2.0 Essential Training (CD-ROM)

I'm on my third time with this disc, you'll have to watch it at least that many times just to get clued in. This is basically Joey Lott's love letter to himself. He types and talks, types and talks, etc. He never tells the student what's coming or why. So.. you watch him type not knowing what to look for, where the project is going or how your own approach should be structured. Basically, he goes through the actionscript code lighting fast and the gives a shallow "quickie" summation at the end of each chapter of what you just saw, after you're already past it. Time and time again, chapter after chapter you'll watch Joey type. If you want to educate yourself on the "how" and "why" of actionscript and be able to formulate your own game plan for your Flash Projects, look elsewhere. The main thing you'll come away with in this DVD is the knowledge that the author knows it. (But, he just can't teach it to you.) I gave it a two, because it goes through quite a few chapters.

5.0 out of 5 stars like uploading directly into your brain, November 16, 2007

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James East "ratboy" (Boulder Creek CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ActionScript 2.0 Essential Training (CD-ROM)

I only wish there were more products like this. While not delving deeply into the syntax of AS2 or the theory of OOP programming (doesn't cover authoring your own classes)it does cover the basics throughly. It walks you step by step through one useful example after another. Have ADD? No problem just load this puppy up plug in you ear phones and you're in the zone.

4 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quick Way to Learn!, December 11, 2005

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D-MAG.org Reviewer (Lexington, KY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ActionScript 2.0 Essential Training (CD-ROM)

Honestly, before reviewing this CD, I was a little skeptical about using CDs to learn something like Actionscript. I felt that I would probably need to invest in some good reference books and take a class at a local training center.

I was very surprised how well put together I found the CD. I was familiar with Joey Lott's written work like the Macromedia Flash MX 2004 ActionScript Bible and Complete Flash Remoting MX. However, I had never used any other material from him before.

The CD interface was easy to navigate. You can rewind, fast forward, stop and other features. The most valuable feature I found though, was actually the pause feature.

Once I would watch the instruction, I would pause it, minimize (resize) and try it right then on Flash MX 2004. This helped reinforce my learning, as well as, prove to me I could do it.

Lott's examples and techniques were easy to understand and follow.

If you are not the "book learning-type person," or like me, you just don't always have the time to read a 1,000 page book, try the line of CDs from (...)

Loren is also the Group Manager of D-MAG.org, the Digital Media Artists Group in Lexington, KY.