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

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Customer Reviews:

No lessons - "this is how you use this, this is how you use that..." [Posted on 2007-02-25]
I bought this book to learn Flash...and I was dissapointed. There are no lessons, it's pretty much a user's manual. "Here is the brush tool and this is how you use it. This is the fill button and 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 for you. I'm going to exchange this book for sams teach yourself Flash 8 as it has lessons and you learn to use the program as a whole.

Not so helpful [Posted on 2007-03-24]
If you know your way around most toolbars, this book won't teach you much. It has been written for people who haven't used any complex software before. I had to buy the book for a course on Flash, but was disappointed when we covered most of the book in the first day. Easy to understand for a complete beginner. May be useful then.

It's a lookup book [Posted on 2007-08-18]
Everyone who uses the Visual Quickstart Guides should be informed: they're lookup books, resources, not step-by-step how-tos.

Somewhere between basic reference and step-by-step guide [Posted on 2007-11-15]
I had to buy this book as it was used for 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 to use this tool and how to use that tool, but never tells you WHY. Like, ok now I can convert to a MovieClip, but why would anyone want to do that, and so on and so on. If you know a bit about Flash, I guess you can easily dig up something in this book if you forgot how to 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 to not overload the novice - but then, it doesn't explain you much either. For the experienced Flash-user looking for a reference guide, look elsewhere.

Excellent Resource [Posted on 2008-02-15]
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 and why I would use them.

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