Foundation

By: Kristian Besley, Sham Bhangal, David Powers

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Paperback | 2 August 2011

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ActionScript is the native scripting language of Flash. ActionScript knowledge is essential within the world of Flash design and development, as Flash remains a leading tool for cutting-edge interactive design and development.

ActionScript is what gives Flash its power, but with that power comes a certain level of complexity, which can be intimidating. This beginners' book, significantly updated since the last edition, covers all of the basics of ActionScript using version 8 of Flash. The skills acquired by working through this book will enable you to move on to more advanced friends of ED books, such as Foundation PHP 5 for Flash, Foundation ActionScript Animation or Foundation XML for Flash.

This book contains all you need to understand and make use of ActionScript, and to have some fun while learning. The Foundation series teaching style is ideal if you're a non-programmer who wants to learn Flash programming quickly and thoroughly. The authors teach the basics, and provide an all-around proficiency in ActionScript, as well as Flash components within Flash 8. You'll gain the practical skills to build ActionScript based Flash projects, including making initial design decisions, structuring code, and testing. An ongoing case study means that by the end of the book, you'll have constructed a cutting-edge Flash site to showcase your newly learned skills.

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"This book covers the fundamental aspects of ActionScript. ... The writing style is very easygoing; numerous examples and illustrations are provided to help readers grasp this programming environment. ... the book can be read by anyone wanting to know the building blocks of some of the most successful Web sites. Written in a very reader-friendly manner, and providing many practical tips, this book needs to be on the desk of the aspiring Web programmer. I recommend it for learning an exciting technology." (Radu State, ACM Computing Reviews, Vol. 49 (12), December, 2008)

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Graphical & Digital Media Applications Digital Animation Digital Lifestyle & Online World: Consumer & User Guides Digital Video Consumer User Guides Computer Science Image Processing Computer Programming & Software Development Object-Oriented Programming or OOP Software Engineering Web Programming

Internet Guides & Online Services Illustration & Drawing Software Web Graphics & Design

Interactive Flash
Making plans
Movies that remember
Movies that decide for themselves
More power less script
Objects & classes
Objects on the stage
Games & sprites
Drawing API
Adding sound to Flash
Loading dynamic data with XML
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