Customer Reviews

Flash 5 Fast & Easy Web Development (With CD-ROM)

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This is a great book for a novice user. Easy to learn alot really fast beacuse of its easy to follow screen shots and good examples. I recommend that advanced users STAY AWAY! You will not be happy. Great for the visual learner..... Graphic artists that want get into animation... this is a good beginning.

This book is great! Most computer books are so boring and dry, but this one has a sense of humor and is just as easy to follow. This book cuts right to the chase and gives you the realistic information that you need to know. But presents that information in a way that you can deal with, and actually learn from. It's a good one. Get it!

I find this book to be a great intoduction to Flash. It's not for advanced users, but I'm glad there is book aimed at us novices. I keep it on my desk and refer to it all day long. There is a sense of humor to the writing and the examples and lessons are great step-by-step tutorials of the kinds of things I wanted to learn how to do. It's very useful in trying to understand what Flash can and can't do and it has a lot of good information about planning a Flash project and what you will need to think about for the final Flash movie file. The only weird thing is that the book is about Flash 5 but it comes with Flash 4 on the CD Rom. You'll have to buy Flash 5 or download a trial version from Macromedia since versions 4 and 5 are substantially different. The book won't help you if you only have Flash 4.

I found this book to be very descriptive and help with the understanding of how Flash 5 works. I recommend it to all who are scared when opening Flash 5 for the first time. This will get you going!

Interesting examples presented in a light hearted way with easy to follow projects. A nice way to reintroduce my deteriorating Director skills with Flash 5. This is definitely a beginners book, so don't expect any indepth coverage of Action Scripting.

This book is alright, but I did not learn anything new from it. It is a decent book if you are using flash for the absolute first time. For Intermediate to Advanced users- DO NOT waste your time on this book. It is not worth the money. I have used Flash for 3 weeks and I have to skip to almost the end of the book to find out something new. It does not cover many of Flash capabilities. I liked

Flash 5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

much better.

ah the wonders of flash, and ah all the horrible books on it.... ill give it 2 stars since maybe it was just too rushed a book to be put out..... that really sums it up, ill have to say

HORRIBLE! A waste of money, valuable time, and trees.
Teaches nothing of vaule to a designer and especailly the programmer. Sad Flash examples. The book is just not intouch with reality in todays market. Aviod the anger of writing a bad review, use another guide.
Recommendation for Flash5, Quickstart Guide Flash and Quickstart Flash Advanced.

You would hope that a book about Flash would afford you more education than comes with the product. This does not. It 85 percent screen shots (macintosh screen shots) and 15 percent text. This book is good if you aren't too bright and the manual that came with the software or the step by step tutorials are too complex. (highly unlikely) Returning my copy today, will try another author.