RE: FLASH: What about *this* Flash book? (Mohler)

[Michael at WebFlyer.com]

	I've had Mohler's book for several weeks now and I find it one of the

better books out there. It has a pretty large section on actionscripting and

it covers all of the fundamentals very well.


	Unfortunately the actionscripting sections in most Flash books are really

poor, I've only encountered 2 books, so far, that cover it better than most

and Mohler's books is one of them. The other is "Flash 4! Creative Web

Animation" by Franklin & Patton. Actually the later has the biggest section

I've seen on actionscripting and it's very methodical. Overall however

Mohler's book is one of the best books out there. I'm looking forward to

seeing what the "Flash 4 Bible" has to say on the issure of actionscripting.


	"Flash 4 Magic" is another very good book as well, but it's more of a

cookbook sort of approach which is good for some people but I feel it's not

good for many of us, myself included. It gives great "canned" solutions but

doesn't do as good of a job explaining the "why" which I feel is much more

important than the "how". You can give almost anyone a solution, in any

language i.e. PERL, JAVA, etc, but that doesn't always go very far towards

makeing someone an effective programmer... unfortunately.


Just my 2 cents worth.


Yrs,


Michael

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Subject: Re: FLASH: What about *this* Flash book? (Mohler)



> Graphics, Animation & Interactivity with Flash 4.0 by James L. Mohler


I think that Chrissy was giving this book away at some point so someone

other than I must have it. I actually had Prof. Mohler as an instructor when

I was in college, and I think he is brilliant. He has written a number of

books on interactivity and design. When writing the book he looked for works

people could donate to the book for tutorials and I actually pitched one in

for Tell Targets. Other people contributing (I believe) are the people from

Insomnious (who have redesigned their site recently) and there was some

involvement from the people at Vecta3D. Like it says in the description,

this was written to be a textbook that Prof. Mohler could use in a class to

teach Flash. I think the book does a good job of taking people from the

beginning and getting them to the more difficult material. I haven't read

John's book or Flash 4 Magic, but I am guessing that if you are JUST looking

for actionscripting, this isn't the book, however if you have never taken a

class in Flash here's your chance, this book does a good job.


I am a bit biased so if anyone else uses the book, I would like to hear what

you think.


Michael Krisher




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