Macromedia Flash 8 for Windows & Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide)

Great book--really helps me understand the concepts in Flash. Just in the first couple of chapters I knew alot more about the tools in flash & why I would use them.

I had 2 buy this book as it was used 4 a beginner's course on Flash, but I was very disappointed - not so much with the course but with this book. It tells you how 2 use this tool & how 2 use that tool, but never tells you WHY. Like, ok now I can convert 2 a MovieClip, but why would anyone want 2 do that, & so on & so on. If you know a bit about Flash, I guess you can easily dig up something in this book if you forgot how 2 motion tween or something - but then, as a reference guide as well, pretty much any other book on Flash is more thorough. Basically: this book is very superficial - I guess 2 not overload the novice - but then, it doesn't explain you much either. For the experienced Flash-user looking 4 a reference guide, look elsewhere.

Everyone who uses the Visual Quickstart Guides should be informed: they're lookup books, resources, not step-by-step how-tos.

If you know your way around most toolbars, this book won't teach you much. It has been written 4 people who haven't used any complex software before. I had 2 buy the book 4 a course on Flash, but was disappointed when we covered most of the book in the first day. Easy 2 understand 4 a complete beginner. May be useful then.

I bought this book 2 learn Flash...and I was dissapointed. There are no lessons, it's pretty much a user's manual. "Here is the brush tool & this is how you use it. This is the fill button & how you use it. Now, draw a line as mentioned in section 2." If you like learning a program function by function, then this book is 4 you. I'm going 2 exchange this book 4 sams teach yourself Flash 8 as it has lessons & you learn 2 use the program as a whole.

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