I looked at that XML book in the bookstore and dicovered its ghastliness in
time. The very worst Flash book I ever bought was one of the first
Actionscript 2.0 books: Object-Oriented Programming with ActionScript 2.0 by
Tapper, Talbot, Haffner (New Riders, usually an ok press). I read it and
thought one would have to write about 10,000 lines of very cryptic code to
make a component or even a subclass of MovieClip.
Early on, I bought loads of early friendsofed books that were really, really
bad, in the Flash 5 days when they were almost the only press to cover
"advanced" Flash programming. But several of their more recent books are
actually good. Aside from the XML one, Flash 8 Essentials actually covers
the new Actionscript (along with IDE stuff) in a serious way in a short
book, and the new Object Oriented Actionscript (Elst/Yard) is also good and
uses design patterns.
Millie Niss
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http://www.sporkworld.org
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From: "Ryan Potter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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I bought that book too. It is the worst computer book I have ever read.
At their talk they gave on the subject at MAX a couple of years ago (it
could have been flash forward), Joey Lott kept having to correct them from
the audience. He was so nice about it, but it was pretty obvious they
didn't know what they were talking about.
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Jason
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 4:21 PM
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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Noob, basic questions on actionscript,book
suggestion
This is not the same book as some older friendsofed books on XML and
Flash
(using A.S. 1.0/older versions of Flash) which were terrible.
LOL. Another XML and Flash book to avoid is "Flash and XML: A
Developer's Guide" by Dov Jacobsen and Jesse Jacobsen. Very pretty, but
filled full of off-topic stuff and hardly anthing you can make much use
of, let alone understand. Not only that, filled full of Flash
worst-practices. I wasted a good $35 on that one a few years back.
Should have plopped into one of those cushy chairs at Borders and
skimmed for a good while instead of making a quick impulse buy. Anyway,
just have to get that off my chest =:)
Jason Merrill
Bank of America
Learning & Organizational Effectiveness
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