Flash 5 Hands-On Training [Paperback]

Kymberlee Weil (Author), Green. Garo (Author), Lynda Weinman (Author)

Book Description

Series: Lynda Weinman's Hands-On Training | Publication Date: August 29, 2001

Jump in immediately and get your hands dirty with Flash 5 Hands-On Training. The book’s project-based exercises, modeled on acclaimed teacher Lynda Weinman’s unique brand of instruction, are the ideal way for busy professionals to learn this cutting-edge Web technology. The book emphasizes the practical: You’ll master core Flash principles using classroom-tested techniques and hard-won tips that you can apply to real-life projects.

Flash 5 Hands-On Training gives you a complete learning experience, combining the best of book-based and classroom instruction. You get the flexibility of following the book’s clear, step-by-step exercises at your own pace, plus a CD full of sample files and QuickTime movies demonstrating key techniques. Armed with a thorough grounding in actual Flash problems and their solutions, you’ll soon be creating your own professional interactive and animated Web sites.

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From the Back Cover

Jump in immediately and get your hands dirty with Flash 5 Hands-On Training. The book’s project-based exercises, modeled on acclaimed teacher Lynda Weinman’s unique brand of instruction, are the ideal way for busy professionals to learn this cutting-edge Web technology. The book emphasizes the practical: You’ll master core Flash principles using classroom-tested techniques and hard-won tips that you can apply to real-life projects. Flash 5 Hands-On Training gives you a complete learning experience, combining the best of book-based and classroom instruction. You get the flexibility of following the book’s clear, step-by-step exercises at your own pace, plus a CD full of sample files and QuickTime movies demonstrating key techniques. Armed with a thorough grounding in actual Flash problems and their solutions, you’ll soon be creating your own professional interactive and animated Web sites.

About the Author

Author and designer Lynda Weinman--creator of lynda.com, a leading force in Web-design training--has taught digital arts since the late 1980s at Art Center College of Design, American Film Institute, San Francisco State University, and UCLA. Lynda also is a featured columnist and writes on digital graphics and animation for numerous national and international magazines. Her bestselling books, including Designing Web Graphics, have been translated into six languages and are used by Web designers and teachingprofessionals nationally and internationally.

She and her husband, Bruce Heavin, founded and operate the Ojai Digital Arts Center in Ojai, California, which offers small, intensive workshops in Web design. Lynda has recently launched a series of training videos under the lynda.com imprint. For more information on her books, videos, and workshops, visit www.lynda.com.

Garo Green is the director of training at lynda.com in Ojai, California. He's worked extensively in the development of custom curriculum and courseware for software training, and has over five years of teaching experience in both hardware and software applications. In addition, he has an extensive knowledge of HTML, computer graphics, and Web design. He is well versed in Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Freehand, Photoshop, GoLive, and ImageReady. He has also been a featured speaker at the Web99 and FlashForward2000 conferences. Prior to joining lynda.com, Garo was a software instructor and intranet developer for State Farm Insurance Company.

Product Details

• Paperback: 768 pages
• Publisher: Pearson Education (August 29, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201731347
• ISBN-13: 978-0201731347
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,153,215 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lyndo.com is tops - bought book, January 29, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Flash 5 Hands-On Training (Paperback)

I can't say enough about how Lynda and assoc. writes books. I've bought too many books, such as Flash Magic books, Visual Quick start Foundation Flash & others. Really, I bought too many that sit unused becuase they were not inspiring to me!<<<<

I know that I am coming from a beginner to intermediate user, but I have a mad passion for REAL well written tutorial books with quicktime movies. Lynda's books deliver BIG TIME!

She take GREAT care, step by step, trying to show you how to do her tutorials with out loosing a step.

The other books such as Visual Quickstart books and Flash Magic books really seemed to be geared for more of advanced geek type user. All of them and I've read and browsed many, do not teach as complete as she does.

I just feel that there are not very many books out there that teach software the way Lynda's books do. There is something very uplifting about her books. i almost feel like I could go door to door trying to sell her books they are that good.

Sure there will be geeky people that feel her approach is to simplistic. But they miss the BOAT BIG TIME!!!!!!!!!

O by the way I bought Foundation Flash as well. Again, all the other books that are not written by her from other companies just don't have the gift that she does! That real step by step approach.

We all go through life trying to find things that are uplifting, artistic. We see Van Gough paintings, we great bridges built. We see and hear great music.

We also see and read great books.
She can teach, and teach very well indeed.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It gives you a solid foundation, April 1, 2002

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Alfredo Campos Mejia - See all my reviews

This review is from: Flash 5 Hands-On Training (Paperback)

I give 5 stars to this great book and I'll tell you why.

At first I was little impressed by the size of this book, but when I started to read it I discovered that it was so fast and easy to read.

This book is intended for begginers and intermediate Flash users.

I have 5 Flash books, 3 intended for beginners and 2 for intermediate, and this one has really made me feel that Flash is under my control. It has given me tips you won't find in the Flash help.

It has 17 chapters. I have read one chapter every day. In less than 3 weeks you will learn what every Flash user, beginner, intermediate or expert should know.

The knowledge you'll gain with this easy reading book (but full of information, excercises and samples) will help you all the way until you become a Flash master.

Wanna save time and money? Buy Flash HOT Book. These guys really know how to teach. They don't try to impress you with dark concepts you can't understand. They haven't forgotten they were newbies some day. They know the art of teaching.

I really recommend this book to beginners. Soon you will have the knowledge and tools to unleash your creativity and start creating movies and web sites.
Then you can buy whatever intermediate or advanced book you want. You'll be ready for the next level stuff.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best tutorial I've taken, October 23, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Flash 5 Hands-On Training (Paperback)

I've taken a number of software tutorials and this one was the best. First, the exercises were short ones so I could walk away from the computer and come back and not be lost. Second, I found very few errors in the book, and the ones I did find were non- tutorial-affecting. I've taken far too many tutorials in which the files weren't available on the CD or the lesson didn't work as described or there were glaring grammatical or spelling errors throughout.

I liked this book a lot because it didn't spend as much time on the graphics aspect of Flash as other books do (and then they spend too little time on the animation aspect). I've dinked around with the program before. Now I feel I have a sound background in the program. This is one of the few tutorials I have ever completed; it's the first Flash one I have. The projects held my interest and showed me things about the program that I hadn't yet discovered.

I recommend this book to any beginner and anyone who has played around with the program but doesn't have a good grasp on its capabilities.