ActionScript 3.0 for Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Classroom in a Book (Paperback)

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The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn ActionScript® 3.0 for Adobe Flash CS4 Professional

ActionScript® 3.0 for Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Classroom in a Book contains 14 lessons. The book covers the basics of learning ActionScript and provides countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.

Learn to add interactivity to Flash files using ActionScript 3.0: Control timelines and animation, write event-handling functions, and control loading of and interaction with data, text, video, sound, and images.

“The Classroom in a Book series is by far the best training material on the market. Everything you need to master the software is included: clear explanations of each lesson, step-by-step instructions, and the project files for the students.” —Barbara Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor, Rocky Mountain Training

Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does—an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.

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The Adobe Creative Team of designers, writers, and editors has extensive, real-world knowledge of Adobe products. They work closely with the Adobe product development teams and Adobe's Instructional Communications team to come up with creative, challenging, and visually appealing projects to help both new and experienced users get up to speed quickly on Adobe software products.

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Adobe Press; 1 Pap/Cdr edition (November 22, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321579216
• ISBN-13: 978-0321579218
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #12,900 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A designers way to learn actionscript, January 2, 2009

By	D. Brinkman (Southern CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is simply the best book I have seen for designers to learn actionscript. I have gone through countless actionscript books, all of which seem like they are written by programmers who just assume you know basic programming. I'm a designer, not a coder! This book helped me bridge the divide and I gratefully spent the money on it. It was worth every penny.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FINALLY, March 4, 2009

By	Kenneth L. Wells "kenwells.com" (Decatur, GA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

So ActionScript 3.0 has been out for a couple of years and FINALLY it dawns on Adobe to have a AS3.0 book that is for people that didn't get a masters' degree in computer science. And for all you folks that tried with all your might to concentrate hard and start learning 3.0 with a book and pure will, prepare to advance. The book is straight forward, written for designers instead of the other 64 AS3 books.

Now, you can get started. The book tells you helpful things on the way like "you need to get really good at using 'event listeners' because you are going to use them all the time in your basic projects".

You designers have finally found the book to actually get you started. Pretty soon, you'll be helping the Java and C# programmers with ActionScript instead of the other way around. And your stuff will actually still look nice.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth the Money, February 14, 2009

By	Rob "ActivelyX" - See all my reviews

I purchased this book after I read "Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Classroom in a Book" in order to get more insight on some the features of ActionScript 3.0. I wasn't disappointed. I thought the chapters were well organized. And everything worked the way the book said it would. Just follow the directions and you should do well.

Of course, it's an introductory course. But once you finish, you should be able to work with the online materials to find what you need for more detailed information.