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Title: Flash 4! Creative Web Animation (3rd Edition) by Derek Franklin, Brooks Patton ISBN: 0-201-35470-5 Publisher: Macromedia Press Pub. Date: 09 November, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.59 (95 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good learning tool
Comment: This book is a good one for taking you from ground zero as far as knowing how to use Flash to being comfortable with everything and creating your own stuff. I had an animation up and going (one I created myself, without tutorials) in minutes. The book covers the tools, what they're for, how they can be used pretty well. Combined with the tutorials and the help files that comes with Flash this book is a great tool to learn Flash with. This isn't a book for experienced users unless they just need a basic reference, but there is a wide range of things covered here. How to draw with Flash, sound, animation, interactivity, even putting movies on the web, or making them into gifs or jpegs for the web, it's all talked about in relatively nice detail. There are typos, however, but that's more of a minor annoyance and not much of a hinderance at all. The important information is clear enough that unless you're immensely bothered by typos, you'll enjoy this book no matter what. It's a helpful tool, but I think I'll need another, more advanced book eventually. This book has enough information and help that I should be able to go from ground zero to getting myself employed doing Flash, it's worth checking out. This isn't the sort of book (especially since Flash 5.0 just came out a few months ago) that is going to have a second edition come out, so typos and errors won't be fixed. I think it was money well-spent though, I'm a satisfied customer.
Rating: 5
Summary: $$ Worth The Money $$
Comment: I found this book to be an excellent resource for using this software the way it was intended to be used. It's a rare thing to find useful documentaion that comes with a product and describes how to use the procuct to it's fullest. Flash 4 is no exception! The software does so much, but if you were to judge it's potential based on the manual that comes with it, you'd think it was half the product that it really is. Also, it's tough to find any ONE third party book that EVRYONE is happy with. Everyone has a different learning style that works for them. Some of us learn by reading, others by seeing, and others by doing. This book is designed to take the reader (or learner) by the hand and walk them through the most fundamental aspects of the product. Lots of us like to look through a table of contents, see the subject we're after, jump right to that page, and expect things to be comprehensible. Not so true with this book. If you're like me, you'll learn best with this book if you start from page 1, have patience, and read through it chapter by chapter. DO THE EXAMPLES, watch the movies on the CD, study them, and apply what you just learned to your own projects. The product is quite complex and does some fantastic things. There's no quick and easy answers to blow you through all that Flash 4 has to offer. But the authors of this book seem to understand this and present it in such a way as though you were taking a course on the subject. No instructor is going to start teaching in week 12, what ought to be taught in week 3. Stick with them, try not to jump ahead, and when you're finished, you'll have an extremely solid grasp of the software (much more so than if you had picked up a "quiky" book). I now have four books on Flash 4 and have read all of them cover to cover (and some more than once). This book, by far, takes the cake!
Rating: 2
Summary: Good for starting a fire
Comment: The authors express when creating a Flash program, organization is the key. This book is far from organized. They spend too much time talking about things instead of doing them. Self-help books should have tons of visuals and tutorials, this lacks in both areas. The authors should have sought self-help in organizational skills before selling this book to the masses. One more thing, and this is to all authors of self-help books in any area and that is put your books in a spiral notebook form, its a real pain trying to keep the book open and do the tutorials at the same time. I won't torch it as of yet, but Chicago winters can be brutal.
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Title: Flash 4 Magic (WITH CD-ROM) by David J. Emberton, J. Scott Hamlin, David Emberton ISBN: 0735709491 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Graphics, Animation & Interactivity with Flash 4.0 by James L. Mohler ISBN: 0766816958 Publisher: Delmar Learning Pub. Date: 21 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Flash 4 Bible by Robert Reinhardt, Jon Warren Lentz ISBN: 0764533568 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Flash 4 for Windows and Macintosh Visual Quickstart Guide by Katherine Ulrich ISBN: 020135473X Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 15 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.99 |
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Title: Dreamweaver 2.0 Hands-On Training by Lynda Weinman ISBN: 0201354527 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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