Need Advice for an ActionScript Learning Book

[papaan]

I would like to learn some ActionScripting. But do not know where to start, what to read. Anyone can point me to a direction? To a book?
Any help is much appreciated. Thank you
:)

[Gibberish]

What helped me was a flash bible and a lot of posts on as[org]

You only really learn by coding it. Find a project you want to do and break it into little functions.

[Flash Gordon]

Flash MX 2004 actioscript: Traing from the source.
I give it about an 85% about a B average. but it pretty good if you use your brain

[Taff]

ActionScript for Flash MX definitive guide.

THE book, although it doesnt cover AS2.0 or Flash MX 04 features (obviously)

[Laguana]

Like Gibberish said, choosing a goal and working towards it is how i learnt. Also looking at tutorials on the net and reading people's posts on forums such as this one should help too.

[thumbslinger]

What's funny is that the best, overall book I've read about actionscript was the VisualQuick Start with Flash 5 Advanced by Russel Chen.

He's got a new one for MX Actionscript, but every line of code in the older was still works and if MX converts it, well you're still in good shape.

Short, exact examples for everything without all the prose and 'funny' talk that the big thick books give.

At least for a beginner/intermediate

[misspelledyouth]

The book that kickstarted my actionscripting was the friends of ed Foundation Actionscript for Flash MX 2004. Great coding examples and written in a really easy to read style.

I rate all the FoEd books I've bought (5 so far :) ) extremely highly.

thank you Sham Banghal, wherever you are :D

[linsula]

I only started coding 2 months ago and I also found Foundation Actionscript by Sham Bhangal this best, takes you through a project from start to finish.

The Flash MX Bible is really good as a refernce tool too, but it really depends on how you like to learn.

One thing that really helped me as I had no coding experience before at all was to understand Object Orientated Programming, this really helped my visualise in my head what was going on , objects talking to other objects and how they do it! But I dunno what experience you have.

How I have been REALLY learning is to set myself small projects and just finding out via books, as.org and wereHere.com how to do the coding.

One thing is there are different ways to do stuff so there will always be a way!

Linds