Foundation ActionScript for Flash 8

Author:   Kristian Besley ,  Sham Bhangal ,  Eric Dolecki ,  David Powers
Publisher:   APress
Edition:   1st ed.
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9781590596180


Pages:   648
Publication Date:   10 April 2006
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Kristian Besley ,  Sham Bhangal ,  Eric Dolecki ,  David Powers
Publisher:   APress
Imprint:   APress
Edition:   1st ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.213kg
ISBN:  

9781590596180


ISBN 10:   1590596188
Pages:   648
Publication Date:   10 April 2006
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

Table of Contents

Interactive Flash.- Making Plans.- Movies that Remember.- Movies that Decide for Themselves.- More Power, Less Script.- Movies that Remember How to do Things.- Objects and Classes.- Objects on the Stage.- Reusable Code and Realistic Movement.- Games and Sprites.- Drawing API.- Adding Sound to Flash.- Loading Dynamic Data with XML.- Finishing the Futuremedia Case Study.- Advanced Actionscript: Components and Classes.

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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)


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)


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 Information

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.

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