The best book on Actionscript that i have read
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I have read a few books on Actionscript and i must say that this book is top of my list. Keith Peters does very well in explaining every example, which makes this book a lot of fun to read. There is a lot of practical examples to get stuck into, which i think is very important when learning actionscript! Also be prepared to learn a lot on trigonometry and Math!! which i must say isn't as hard as i thought. Enjoy!
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The Best Animation book on the market
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This book is fantastic and a real pleasure to read, here's why I like it.
The examples are clear and well explained, everything is backed up with examples and diagrams. Even the Trigonometry chapter has plenty of exmples and introduces the topic far clearer than most trig text books have ever done.
No actionscript experience, animation experience or math experience is assumed so anyone can pick this up and start creating cool animation effects, these techniques can also be applied to other languages like Java.
It's very easy to read and I have even found myself reading it in bed, if you want to learn to program animation, learn animation tricks and improve your flash, actionscript or java animations....get this book.
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Indispensable
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Hi all,
This is, without a doubt, the best book on the basics of 2D and 3D interactive animation I've ever seen. It's clear, concise and easy to understand even if your maths is very poor, like mine! You can take this book in at any level, from copying the code from the projects and adapting it to your needs in a very superficial way or really getting into how it all works and create your own code and classes from scratch.
It'll introduce you to OOP (Object Oriented Programming) quite painlessly and you'll learn just how useful, powerful and time-saving it is, which is almost a necessity in AS 3.0.
If you want to include any interactive animation in your projects at all, this book is indispensable.
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Great book
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This book is great for all actionscript developers. The examples are specific to AS3 but most could be refactored into AS2 examples easily. The object oriented coding is clean, although not always encapsulated well. The book is clear and easy to follow. It explains most concepts very well. It is full of examples and covers basic to advanced physics.
I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to brush up on game physics.
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What a brilliant book !!!
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I'm fairly new to Flash and wanted to dip my toe in Actionscript 3.0 to see what cool stuff I could learn. I was actually very apprehensive about doing this as my background is more graphics & web design rather "programming / scripting". However this book is fabulous. It has just about every cool thing you would want to do in flash, and completely liberates you from the rather limiting and dull timeline based animations. The book is extremely readable and very clearly explained. Keith Peters really does hold your hand all the way through it, and gradually builds up examples from basics into really jaw dropping effects, (and there are so many effects effects covered in this book). I thoroughly recommend this book for beginner & intermediate Actionscripters, you will be amazed at what you can achieve. Don't be scared, its great!
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