Hello,
I used to use Flash 2 years ago. I wasen’t very advanced but I knew hot to do a lot of stuff (not too advanced, but not too basic). I stopped using it and I don’t remember much. I want to get started again. I am trying Kirupa but the Advanced tutorials give you codes for you to copy and paste them into your Actions window, they then explain it, but they don’t do it too well.
I really want to know why I am giving my movies all these actions. So I need to understand the code. So I was wondering where can I learn the code? Everything, what everything means and how to write it.
Simply put, I feel the best way of learning (anything, really) Actionscript is exposure to it. Play with code, experiment, learn new functions and use them rigorously, look at other people’s code, be inclined to learning it. There are a bunch of open source sites out there, including this one. Take a movie you like and dig into the code. Go through it step-by-step, have someone explain something you don’t understand (here preferably ;)), look up the foreign function in the help files. That’s another good source, Flash’s own help files. Most people tend to neglect that it’s there. All (or most) of the functions are listed in these files as well as examples to follow.
Start with basic code. Make a circle move right with some velocity. Then give it acceleration or something. Before you know it, you’ll have a highway full of circles moving at their own pleasure. All it takes is practice and experimenting.
