# Would now be a bad time to start properly learning AS?

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**Created:** [July 24, 2006, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/would-now-be-a-bad-time-to-start-properly-learning-as/194548 "2006-07-24T15:14:50Z")\
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I was thinking of properly sitting down and learning actionscript this summer, as I only know the very basics, but then ive been reading about Actionscript 3 a fair bit, and thought is it pointless fo rme to start now?

I dont want to spend ages learning the language and then have to re learn a load of it when Flash 9 comes out, so do you think then I should just wait? How different will AS3 be? Would I be wasting a lot of time if I did start now?