Flash MX 2004 and 8 Books
The Flash books detailed below are a selection of popular Flash guides and tutorials. Whether you need an instant reference or a step by step guide on everything from learning the basics of Flash, setting up Flash for optimum performance, animation techniques or ActionScript basics through to Advanced scripting.
Sams Teach Yourself Flash 8 in 24 Hours
by Phillip Kerman
As well as covering the majority of the basic workings of Flash 8 in a helpful step by step way offers some unique insights including the new video features.
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Flash 8 Bible
by Robert Reinhardt, Snow Dowd
Comprehensive and user-friendly guide to the latest version of Flash. Packed with in-depth tutorials, tips and hidden tricks that appeal to both beginners and experts.
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Essential ActionScript 2.0
by Colin Moock
Strong introduction to ActionScript 2.0, a vastly improved version of Flash's programming language. Covers best practices and techniques to building extensible and scalable applications with MX 2004 and Flash 8.
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Foundation AS Animation: Making Things Move!
by Keith Peters
Takes a readable and concise look at animating objects from basic animation theory, velocity & acceleration, collision detection through to building a workable 3D engine and matrix math all in Flash with ActionScript 2.0.
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Flash 8 Essentials
by Glen Rhodes, Todd Yard, Stephen Downs, Craig Swann, Matt Voerman, Paul Barnes-Hoggett
Focuses exclusively on the new Flash 8 features: filters and blend modes, pixel-level control, image uploading, new text field, video and drawing improvements.
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Flash MX 2004 Beyond the Basics Hands-On Training
by Shane Rebenschied
Includes over 50 intermediate-level tutorials, ActionScript 2.0 based including how to dynamically load images and text, format with CSS, add music and video to building ActionScript-driven menus to name a few.
