Where to start

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So I finally upgraded to cs3 from mx. I downloaded the upgrade off of adobe which worked great, install went fine. My problem is I feel like I have to re-learn everything. It is sooooo different. I guess when the last version you bought is 8 or so years old that happens. Are there any good books out there? I was looking at

I just stared at the screen this morning, it took me 10 minutes to find out how to see the actions. Then when I got there, I couldn’t even make a simple button. I guess I’ll just start reading the tuts again, it helped before and its all I have now.

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I’d suggest learning OOP AS3 from the ground up. It’s not hard.

I don’t know about that book, but this book that was just released has received much praise.

http://www.learningactionscript3.com/

This site is good too:

http://www.gotoandlearn.com/

The way I see things happening with Adobe is a de-emphasizing of the Flash IDE. Learning to use Flash cs3 itself and especially with timeline coding, I think, limits options. The more AS you know, the more flexible you will be. Also, there are projects in the pipeline that will enable a node editing API. In this case you will only need a basic understanding of AS