Hi All. I'm an advanced beginner, i know the basics, how the application works, a bit of actionscript... Now I was wondering how did the pro's/advanced users evolve from here? Did you use a book(s) or just a lot of tutorials and experimenting? (What book(s)?)
As someone said, most people started early and evolved together with Flash itself.
Nowadays, however, someone can pretty much jump in the program and start doing crazy stuff - if he already has a grasp of OOP programming. Flash Actionscript, like all other languages, require some long time to understand and master.
My opinion is that tutorials don't do much. They show you how to do one specific task, introduce you to one single solution, but what makes someone 'good' is his ability to read the documentation and then apply it to whichever problem he's facing. I used a few tutorials to learn Flash on the Flash 2/3 days, but since then all I did was reading books and the documentation.
Moock's books are the best you can ask to get a real sense of Actionscript.
effects etc and apply them in a site. My goal is to create these kind of sites, hopefully in the future as a job. Can anyone give advice?
The thing with Flash is that you can make websites that are 90% handmade animation/navigation and 10% code, or the other way around. Most people start with 90% timeline stuff/10% code way, then moves towards the 10% timeline stuff/90% code - simply because while using a lot more code requires a better knowledge of actionscript and all-around Flash experience, it's also much faster and easier to work with in the long run.
For example, although I do sites that are considered 'design' websites (lots of animation etc) I must have used timeline tweenings only two times in the past 2 years - and because I wanted some keyframe animation that wasn't possible to be reproduced by code.
So I'd say that, yes, you need to learn a lot of actionscript to achieve your goals in the *right* way. Even if you're just reusing animation code from other packages, for example, having an understanding of what's going on will help you properly lay out your site navigation and content control.
- zeh
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