Foundation ActionScript for Flash 8

Foundation ActionScript for Flash 8

by David Powers (Author), David Powers (Author), Kristian Besley (Author), Sham Bhangal (Author)

Synopsis

Supports Flash 8, due later this year; will be a huge market Provides professional best practices-strong emphasis on planning, documentation, and adhering to strict and clean coding from the outset Teaches you to create dynamic, reusable rich-client web applications and services

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More Information

Format: Illustrated
Pages: 648
Edition: 1st Corrected ed., Corr. 4th printing
Publisher: friendsofED
Published: 01 Apr 2006

ISBN 10: 1590596188
ISBN 13: 9781590596180

Media Reviews

From the reviews:

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)

Author Bio
Kristian Besley has worked with multimedia for three years, but has been creative with computers for much longer. He currently develops Flash-based material within an educational environment. This material includes interactive presentations to illustrate how scientific things work, as well as graphical user interfaces and tools allowing web-based content creation with basic computer skills. He was a contributing author on the seminal Flash Math Creativity, and many other friends of ED books. In 2002, he launched the world's first bi-annual HTML markup-based TableArt competition. The competition was an unbelievable success.