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Book:   Essential ActionScript 3.0
Subject:   Essential ActionScript 3.0 is Even Better
Date:   2007-07-16 06:44:33
From:   John Hall
I was new to OOP, having come from the timeline world of Flash. I tried Essential AS 2 and found it helpful to a point, after which the author seemed to presume that I had already worked with other OOP languages.


AS3 is just as comprehensive as AS2, for the advanced programmer, but so much easier for the beginning student. Colin spoon-feeds the basic OOP concepts for the first few chapters and then dives into getting work done with AS3.


What a joy to read! I'm finally creating projects, instead of readying code samples, like I did in EA2.


This is a great reference and teaching tool. If you work with Flash or Flex, this is a "must-have" for your library.

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