One of the biggest compliments paid to a friends of ED
book last year was Amazon.com's judgment that "Foundation Actionscript
is perhaps one of the finest introductory programming books ever
written".
With the release of Flash MX, scripting in Flash has moved from being
a desirable asset to an essential skill in the world of web
design. It's also become a whole lot more difficult, and the major
advances with Flash MX are code based. If you're scared of the idea of
code, but even more scared of missing out, this is the book for
you.
This is no simple re-write - with the help of friends of ED Flash guru
Sham Bhangal, Foundation ActionScript has been re-written from
beginning to end, with the addition of substantial new material to
reflect the major changes bought about with Flash MX.
If you've never coded in Flash, you're going to want to very
soon. This book will make that desire reality, with fully worked
examples and a chapter-by-chapter case study that turns into a fully
fledged top ActionScript site by the end of the book.
Sham Bhangal started out as an Engineer, specializing in
industrial computer based display and control systems whilst
freelancing as a web designer in his spare time. The web design took
up more and more of his time until the engineering had to go. He has
been a key friend of ED since the early days, and his past successses
contributions to the Foundation Flash5, Flash 5 Studio, and Foundation
Photoshop - as well as authoring the original Foundation
ActionScript.