| Flash CS4 Professional Digital Classroom |  | Authors: Fred Gerantabee, Aquent Creative Team, AGI Creative Team
Publisher: Wiley
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Edition: Pap/Dvdr
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ISBN: 0470410930
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.78
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Publication Date: November 24, 2008
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iFlash CS4 Professional Digital Classroom/i is like having a personal instructor guiding readers through each lesson, while they work at their own pace. This book includes 13 self-paced lessons that let readers discover essential skills and explore new features and capabilities of Adobe Flash Professional. Every lesson is presented in full color with step-by-step instructions. Learning is reinforced with video tutorials and lesson files on a companion DVD that were developed by the same team of Adobe Certified Instructors and Flash experts who have created many of the official training titles for Adobe Systems. Each video tutorial is approximately five minutes long and demonstrates and explains the concepts and features covered in the lesson. This training package shows the basics of using the program, such as using layers and instances to build animation sequences, as well as advance features, such as using ActionScript to create interactive Web page components. Jam-packed with information, this book and DVD takes users from the basics through intermediate level topics and helps readers find the information they need in a clear, approachable manner. p bNote:/b CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
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 Adobe Flash CS4 Digital Classroom Book Review August 11, 2010
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I would say that this is a good book for learning how to use the Adobe Flash CS4 Professional software. The tutorials are well-written and they also have video tutorials and lessons on the CD that comes with the book. However, not all of the video tutorials reflect the lesson plans for each chapter, it may show only a segment of a chapter's lesson. Other than that, I would still say that it is a good book to quickly learn how to use this software.
 Flash Pro June 25, 2010
D. D. Smith (TN USA)
I started the book recently, have not finished yet. I knew how to use CS3 version of flash and wanted to learn the improvements. This book is fantastic for learning the upgrades and I think you could learn flash without knowing anything about it from this book. Well written.
 Pretty good, but a little too short on ActionScript May 22, 2010
W. Mate (Beverly Hills, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
To begin with, teaching web programming or web design through books is a monumental task. Programming comes easily to some, but is much more difficult for others. Certain publishers and authors work well for some, and not for others. For instance, I have yet to meet a Visual Quickstart Guide that I could follow, whether it be Photoshop, Dreamweaver or Illustrator, but I know plenty of people who swear by them. Conversely, this book worked well for me, but might not for someone else. Tech books are very tied to learning styles and you might have to try a few different publishers before you find what works for you.
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br /In general, this is a pretty good book for learning the basics of Flash animation, provided you are not interested in learning a lot of ActionScript. The chapters on ActionScript are pretty slim, and unless you are already familiar with ECMA Scrip syntax, ActionScript can be somewhat difficult to grasp. For instance, I still don't why I have to type :void; after certain ActionScript functions. Doesn't 'void' mean 'void?' Well, in ActionScript, not exactly. But since ActionScript can be such a powerful tool, especially for enhancing interactivity, I wish more space in the book had been devoted to it. The videos on the DVD are helpful - but they only cover one small aspect of each chapter, which is unfortunately, usually that of easiest task to master. It would have been better to include videos of the more difficult tasks.
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br /The book is very easy to read and equally easy to follow. The lesson files are helpful, although some of them have too much already included from the start, so that you are jumping in in the middle rather than starting from the ground up. For some chapters, that worked just fine; but for others, I felt that I would have learned more if I had had to create more of the project from scratch.
Good for it's time, but Flash is Dead May 13, 2010
Jason Semko (Los Angeles)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I enjoyed the book, it does get you started off on Flash pretty well. Not much on action script. (This is my review)
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br /But who really cares, Flash is dead anyway, being replaced by HTML5. Okay, so it's not completely dead, Flash will still be used for games and simple applications. After all, Flash does not agree with SEO and Mobile devices. (This is my opinion for the future of buying this book if you plan on making websites in flash)
Excellent choice for beginner in Flash May 6, 2010
Reuben Debono (Malta)
This is an excellent book for anyone trying to start experimenting with flash since it covers nearly all aspects of flash.
br /it does not focus a lot on the programming language Actionscript maybe due to size limitations but on all other aspects the authors provide a pretty good job.
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