# Learning Actionscript?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/learning-actionscript/33727>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 22, 2003, 9:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/learning-actionscript/33727 "2003-10-22T21:55:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![CoDe\_ReD](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/code_red/32/336_2.png) [@CoDe\_ReD](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/CoDe_ReD)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 9:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/learning-actionscript/33727/1 "2003-10-22T21:55:49Z")

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Hi people.

I’m Niels, 17 years old and I live in the Netherlands. I’m interested in flash. I like making flash animations and building websites in flash. I can make a descent website using the tutorials from this site, but I have one problem. I don’t know actionscript. It’s so hard to learn. I’ve tried experimenting with it, but I just can’t get it. I’m eager to learn and I really do want to learn actionscript. Where do I start? Any of you guys have a site with lessons, or a book or something like that? I really want to understand this stuff so I can create cool websites and other nice animations. I figured out Photoshop all by myself, without any help. I want to figure this stuff out too but I just can’t get it right. Please help me…

P.S. I dunno if this is the right place to post this… Plz forgive me if it is the wrong place.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/learning-actionscript/33727/2 "2003-10-22T21:59:54Z")

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I’ve never read these books before, but from what I hear, they’re pretty good so you might want to pick one of these up at the book store.

ActionScript : The Definitive Guide by Colin Moock, Gary Grossman

Any Friends of Ed books are good as well.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/learning-actionscript/33727/3 "2003-10-22T22:03:24Z")

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ThnX! One day I’ll be just like you elektrongeek… a big bad flashing machine…

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 10:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/learning-actionscript/33727/4 "2003-10-22T22:04:21Z")

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I learned pretty much everything I know in AS from [www.kirupa.com](http://www.kirupa.com) , experimenting on my own, and [www.google.com](http://www.google.com) for more information on specific AS commands that I didn’t understand.

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**Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 10:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/learning-actionscript/33727/5 "2003-10-22T22:07:09Z")

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there are many threads like this… search the forums, you’ll find a lot of threads about getting started 🙂

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**Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/learning-actionscript/33727/6 "2003-10-22T22:09:50Z")

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Common Phrase: **Search**

May sound rude, but chances are you will find your answer just by using the forum search feature, the [kirupa.com](http://kirupa.com) search feature, or just a search engine. And you will save yourself time waiting for an answer as well as save us time having to answer your question. If all else fails, feel free to post your question.

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**Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/learning-actionscript/33727/7 "2003-10-26T14:35:18Z")

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I recomend you to use this book :

FLASH MX ACTION SCRIPTING  
By : Derek Franklin/Job Makar

Its really good I learned a lot from it, u can find it very cheap on e-bay and if you’ll like to buy it makesure it comes with the cd which has the exercises.  
and if you’ll like to not spend any money its ok you can still learn action script my advice would be to learn this things first then youl get every thing else from tuts:

start with Movie Clip/button event handlers such as :  
[AS]on(press){  
do this;  
}  
on(release){  
do that;  
}  
onClipEvent(enterFrame){  
do this;  
}  
//and then learn conditions like:

if(condition){  
do this  
}else{  
do that;  
}  
//learn variables they are very important.  
//and learn some basic comands like:

startDrag (this);  
stopDrag();  
hitTest()  
\_root  
\_parent[/AS]  
etc…  
does this help???