Buying Flash mx book- help Please?

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I am planning to buy myself a flash mx book to use as a reference. Can anyone suggest a good book for me…so I don’t buy one that is garbage ahaha

*I don’t know much about actionscript, only basics
*I want to learn about adding music, text , video etc. from external sources
*or anything else that you guys may think is necessary to learn

thanks for your help :beer:

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i recently taught myself flash as well, tho i did have a macromedia director background, but here are some great books:
Katherine Ulrich - Flash MX, visual quick start guide (try amazon used)
Phillip Kerman - Sams teach yourself flash in 24 hours
PS Woods- Flash MX developers guide

but the best resource i found is the tutorials on this site. If i were to buy one book it would be the Katherine Ulrich book, then just use this site for everything else. Seriously, the tutorials on this site are excellent.

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I am planning to buy myself a flash mx book to use as a reference. Can anyone suggest a good book for me…so I don’t buy one that is garbage ahaha

*I don’t know much about actionscript, only basics
*I want to learn about adding music, text , video etc. from external sources
*or anything else that you guys may think is necessary to learn

Probably “Flash MX Bible” (good book for foundation).
“Flash MX ActionScript Bible” great actionscript book.

Thank’s just my opinion :sigh:

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  • the developers guide is best for action script and advanced stuff…
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mine are cheaper… hahaha!

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Here’s mine:

  1. Macromedia Flash MX Advanced - Visual Quickpro Guide - by Russell Chun.
    Although it’s entitled Advanced, if you want to go straight to the Actionscripts and direct to “test drive” then I recommend you this book.
  2. Phillip Kerman - Actionscripting in Flash. He will teach you gently from basic to advance of terminology and jargon of any Actionscripting, and in each section you will get a “workshop”.

I take it that you are a beginner in Actionscripting, so that’s my recommendation. If you want more, read Senocular tutorial in this site. I printed them out and read it.

Cheers

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great thanks guys…I look into those books

I do go through many tutorials on the site…they are great and easy to learn

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Circles, next time search please.

  1. Colin Moock - Actionscript - The Definitive Guide Edition 2
  2. Macromedia - Advanced Actionscripting from the Source
  3. Joshua Davis - Flash to the Core