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Essential ActionScript 3.0 |
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2009-05-01 11:27:56 |
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There is a lot of excellent material here. Colin has always been my first choice for deep discussion on a subject. Others tend to cover a subject very superficially, leaving more questions than providing answers. Still, Colin could use an instructional designer to help him though. This book all too often suffers the usual disconnect between a subject matter expert and the learner.
The first practical improvement would be to fix the index. Far, far too many common subjects (capture, event capture, capturing phase?) cannot be accessed through the index. To be really essential, this book needs to allow the user to find answers quickly.
I like and appreciate Colin's work. This is a valuable book. It could be more complete, it could include more information about the drawing API, for example. And it could be just a little more concrete before it loses us in the abstract. I would have preferred to have some visual aspects to his first and most important example (VirtualZoo).
I find that the more I know, the more I appreciate this book. That's because when I know a little, I can return to this book to learn more. It is not much help as a starter though.
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"This book is so good and so needed for Flash CS3 and Flex Builder - Adobe should consider including a half-price discount voucher on the book when people register their products."
--Jacques Surveyer, The Open Sourcery
