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From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium

The book Flash 8 ActionScript Bible is a great, practical and complete book if your aim is to learn ActionScript. 2.0. It is an easy-reading book, but you should know that you must be familiar with the Flash 8 environment before reaching for this book. The first part of the book, the Getting Started, has many useful details. Maybe there are more details than the needed at the beginning. But, when you are starting to miss the practical issues, the book gives you simple exercises that became more complex in a nice way. And you realize that the details were just there because the authors don’t want to save words on good explanations and examples. In the second part, “Using Core Classes”, the authors start to complement the contents of the different chapters, what means that they did a lot of work of re-writing and polishing prior to publishing. Not all the contents were crystal clear for me and there are more errata than I’d like, but they are not big problems actually. The book is organized very well, from easy to hard, always remembering the previous issues. I have reached part three: “Working with Display Objects”. I am enthusiastic.