# Books!? **URL:** \ **Category:** programming\ **Created:** [February 26, 2007, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/books/217393 "2007-02-26T16:34:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RidingDirty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a5b964/32.png) [@RidingDirty](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RidingDirty)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/books/217393/1 "2007-02-26T16:34:13Z")
As I continue with my flash-studies and my design document I get more and more questions popping up in my head. The reason is mainly that I havnt read a single book about gameprogramming in flash, actionsscripts, or flash in general. Everything I learnt so far is from online-tutorials… So, from my experience in C++, PHP and others, it is always better to start out with a good book, since online tutorials almost never cover thoose 6-700 pages of basic knowledge that is good to know. Only online-tutorial that I found that was capable of explaining every single point was a HTML-tutorial 9 years ago… So therefore, I ask all of you a little more experienced actionscripters and flash-ers to share what books are good for reading. I want to know the basics as my right-pocket. Even though I already got knowledge about variables, containers, loops and such from my C++ studies, I still feel that I want to redo everything in actionscripts, since even though it might seems similiar there is alot of differences. So, what I look for currently is good books that covers the basics in flash 8 and actionscripting in general: - The eviroment in flash 8, the functions and such that can be found - The basics of ActionScripting - A book that covers lowlevel game-programming using AS/flash - A book that takes it further - Networking, using XML, socket-servers and other stuff. So, even though Im currently capable to do some stuff in flash, I feel that I would be better of if I got the basics covered fully, not only the parts I currently see a use for. Also, if there is any online-tutorials that you feel covers this type of stuff good, feel free to provide a link. Then Ill have something to do while waiting for the books to arrive 😉 Best Regards