Customer Reviews

Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Classroom in a Book

5 star:		(15)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(7)
1 star:		(18)

 

 

There's nothing more frustrating than investing 2 hours to do one lesson in this book only to realize there are missing steps. So you think you must have done something wrong and try again. But no, it's just a terrible book. Several chapters have missing steps which screws up your entire project. Save your money or buy a different Flash CS3 book. ANY OTHER BOOK. What a waste. If there were a zero star rating, I'd rate it at zero.

As an instructor I found this book highly unreliable. I can't believe that any of the the folks who gave this a 5-star rating actually read it. It is unfair if that is the case, as this book is not inexpensive. I don't have the money or time to waste on a book that just brings me frustration.

The lessons in this book are poorly planned and many times in each lesson I was left wondering what to do next, or worse yet, why I was doing something. The lessons take a lot more time than advertised, and many don't get you to the end result. I agree with many of the reviews here - except the one that looks like it was written by the publisher. I can't recommend any other books, but I sure can tell you that this book isn't any way to learn Flash. I bought three of these class room books and the only one worth anything is the photo shop book.

I spent hours struggling with this book because it was an assigned text book at my school.

I am pretty sure that they are missing critical steps in this book.There is no way I can repeat their lessons this many times and still not get the expected result.

This book will probably work if you need a bit of a brush up, but if you are a complete newbie like me - and can't deal with errors and problems wait for the revised version.

As far as I'm concerned the book is very poorly edited and probably hasn't been beta tested on novice users.

I've used the Classroom in a Book series for Photoshop & Illustrator and they were great so I was expecting to be a fan of this one as well.

I feel like I've been spinning my wheels and going nowhere. After spending all day trying to work through the first part I gave up and figured I needed a fresh start. Today the lessons still didnt work and I even had a friend try to help me. Didn't anyone try these before they printed it? I feel like a guinea pig.

I have several of the "Classroom in a Book" series, and have always been happy with them. However, this one has been quite a disappointment to me. Especially, since I only bought it because it was required for a class that I'm taking.

Now, after having his students purchase this "pricey" book, our instructor says that he's sorry and wishes he had picked another one. I am sorry he didn't spend more time on his choice before he required us to buy it!

This is the first time that I have ever "reviewed" a book on Amazon, even though I visit this site all the time. I just wanted to give out a little word of warning to folks who are thinking of purchasing it, since I have been so disappointed.

Good luck with your Flash projects, though!

I have finished the first eight lessons out of ten. The project I created in each lesson is exactly like the one they show you before you start, which means that I did them right.

The problem then? I didn't learn anything!

This is the most useless Classroom in a Book program I've used. There is no explanation for why you are supposed to do something. And, they have done so much of the work before you start the lesson that you couldn't possibly create something on your own.

I bought this book hoping I would learn how to create some simple basic flash animations but I can't. So, now I have to look for another book. I wouldn't recommend this book.

This book may be an adequate (barely) text in a classroom environment, but in either a self-learning, or on-line environment it is next to useless. The exercises are pure "cook book" instructions (do this/do that), with little or no explanation of the underlying rationale. Even after doing all of the exercises in the book, I feel I have no real grasp of how Flash works.

I'd gotten as far through the book as I could where things had worked, and worked fairly; lessons 1-4. Then with lesson 5, different story.
It would seem with what most of what the book instructs the user to do, enough attention to detail was not paid to the #5 working sample: The book takes the user through the steps like he's supposed to be in the driver's seat, hence really learning by doing. But, the animation may not have been 'stripped' of it's finishing steps that it instructs the user to do--they're already done. This was inconsistent with the previous lessons, which had all left enough steps to do from "scratch", as the book guides you through. At one point, I noticed it got a little careless about some of the instruction in that same problematic lesson, and I found that doing one of the steps was literally not possible--and no other details for it were given. It drove me elsewhere to get answers. Extremely frustrating!!

I am a new user of Adobe CS3. I bought this book to help with using Flash. While doing the Lessons, the book leaves out important steps. A 90 minute lesson turns into a full day as you go through the help, search online, trying to figure out the lesson. Actually had to buy another book to supplement this one. Did the Photoshop CS3 and the Dreamweaver CS3 class room in a book. Both are better written, and highly recommend the Photoshop book. Currently working on Illustrator. That book is going good.