Ebook: The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 with ActionScript

This book gave a second class presentation on animation within Flash CS4, which was sufficient for me as an experienced After Effects animator, but I'd have to guess is would not be sufficient for someone without animation experience. The Intro to Actionscript 3.0 section was in no way an introduction, unless the reader is an experienced programmer. Having successfully programmed Flash projects in Actionscript 2 using the 'canned' mouse events, go to frame functions, etc, I had hopes of this book taking me to the next level in using actionscript 3. Unfortunately, I've found the writing of the Actionscript portion of the book pretty much incomprehensible ... even to the point it has not provided me with the information necessary to program a button to go to a frame on the timeline.

I bought this book based on the reviews found here, but have not had the experience they did. If you are new to programming, DO NOT buy this book.