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

[paul wehner]

Thank you for speaking for designers everywhere. However as a designer I want

geek speak and am still waiting for an effective book on actionscript.


Every book published to date w/ the exception of Flash 4 Magic and Crocteau's 

merely offer a interface walkthrough and a few tired examples circa flash 3


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





"Michael at WebFlyer.com" wrote:


Don't know if I agree regarding Mohler's book. I found it to be a disappointment and

very,very shallow in the ActionScript area.


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>

>         "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.


As I said to Branden last week, I have yet to have a designer come into my class and

ask : "Show me the hairy code,man."


They need the canned solutions. What they also need, and it was something I was

advocating, was the "why" but not in geek speak. The other aspect of the argument

that was completely overlooked was that when it comes to "hairy code" a designer

will call 1-800-GET-GEEK.


Designers need the 'canned" stuff that shows and explains the rudimentary things

that are done on a day-to-day  basis. This stuff does not exist and it is a

continuing source of frustration.




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