ActionScript: The Definitive Guide
by Colin Moock

"ActionScript: the Definitive Guide" is truly just that - simply the most thorough book written on Flash's scripting language. Unlike most books available for Flash developers, ASDG was designed to be an often referred to desk reference. Colin provides excellent information about writing good code, how ActionScript works, and shows it in action. All of this is presented in logically ordered chapters so that "newbies" to programming and/or to ActionScript can quickly and painlessly get up to speed. In addition, the second half of the book is a Language Reference which is extremely useful for looking up syntax, choosing code and getting the technical details on anything Actionscript. If you already know ActionScript and simply want a book that is more thorough than the Macromedia help files provided with Flash, then this is the book you need. It is the only book in my Flash library that I constantly refer back to. As an extra note, Colin is working on the Definitive Guide for Flash MX. More details can be found on his web site (as well as code) www.moock.org

review by:
Raissa Mould
Freelance Flash Developer
www.mould-e-media.com

Paperback - 696 pages 1 edition (May 30, 2001)
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.; ISBN: 1565928520