Customer Reviews
Engaging and easily understandable - By: Mr. W. E. Linssen, 10 Nov 2008 
I've got oodles of programming books & I'd put this one up with the best of my collection. It's carefully written to ensure all levels of experience & aptitude are catered for, I'd class myself as somewherein the intermediates with a decent knowledge of actionscript 2 & I found it enormously useful.
All examples & diagrams make perfect sense, & the explanations they use have actually helped me come to terms with other programming paradigms I'd used but never fully understood.
Thoroughly recommend this one.
The best book I have read on the subject - By: S. Harris, 23 Aug 2008 This is the best book on Action Script I have read. It doesn't just explain techniques but it explains why things are so. For example, it explains why it's sometimes better to use sprites than movie clips & why you should always remove event listeners when they aren't needed.
I have read Colin Moock's book as well as the ActionScript 3 Bible & the documentation provided by Adobe. To my mind, this book is the best of all because it allows you to start using ActionScript 3 straight away. With a lot of books, you have covered many pages before you do anything useful. This book has you putting stuff on the screen straight away.
I already had knowledge of ActionScript 2 but I would have thought it would be useful to beginners too.
For those who already have some knowledge, it consolidates & adds to what you know.
I really feel quite confident with the language nowin a way I didn't before.
It is well supported with downloadable examples from its companion website.
The book has an excellent layout format & makes good use of colour.
Awesome... - By: Mr. G. E. Parker, 29 Jul 2008 After endlessly searching for a decent AS3 book but having to settle with intermediate to advanced book I found this little gem & started some research. After finding reviews on the flashblog & other resources I decided to go ahead with the purchase.
not only is this book well illustratedin full colour, it also gives you a sense that your learning at a steady pace without feeling like your missing something as you progress.
The online resource site offers all of the files needed to sit & study the chaptersin the book closer.
I have also recently embarked on what I thought was a problem with one of the resource files & emailed the support group, I was astonished to get a reply within 15 Minutes, pity that I was being a fool & there was no problem. Non the less the help was amazing.
I can't recommend this book enough for anyone wanting to make the jump from AS2 to AS3 or for anyone completely new to AS3.
Thank you
Easir to follow than Big Colin - By: A. McPhee, 25 Jul 2008 I really like this book, It's a lot easier to follow than Colin Mook's essential one (Which of course you do actually need as well) Pretty straight to the point, easy to read & understand although I'm probably slap bangin the middle of the target audience - intermediate user with a fairly good understanding of key concepts & how OOP works. I don't recommend it for the absolute beginner & calling it "A beginners guide" is a bit misleading but as a transitional guide, its really good.
There are quite a few typos, it must be said & some of them are quite confusing. I also found that the choice of variable names occasionally made it less clear as to what's intended.
Overall, highly recommended & pretty much the second AS3 book you should have (Although buying it before Mr Mooks is probably a better idea if you get my drift)
I generally now use this one as my main learning guide & "Essential ActionScript 3.0" as a more detailed reference
best buy fopr every actionscript level - By: Philip Illlum Thonbo, 15 Jul 2008 If you read this book & Essential actionscript 3 i actually belive you will be able to learn just as much if not more from Learning Actionscript 3 even though essential as3 is over 3x heavyer both mentally & physicaly - based on the fact the this book delivers the contentin such an lite & understanable wayin full color.
