Good Books

Thanks. I have I've started to read Moock's book. For someone new to programming it is difficult to follow but I have to admit once I re-read portions of it a couple of times I start to understand. It's very comphrehensive.

I also have the Learning.ActionScript 3.0 A beginners guide, ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook and Bible. Between the fourbooks hopefully I will be better at this.

Thanks again!

i am reading this book ... ( Moock's "Essential ActionScript 3.0") and it is good ... it is one of the most balanced book ...

This is also a next talked about book i am also reading it ...
Learning.ActionScript.3.0.A.Beginners.Guide

I always look out for AS3 books and so far nothing surpassed Moock's "Essential ActionScript 3.0" in my opinion. The author has been able to target developers of different levels. I have to side with Joergen in stating that it has a very thorough intro to AS3 and it builds very nicely and consistently to a pretty high level of language understanding. In my opinion one of the most important things in learning a language is to have a solid birds-eye view of language concept. Book delivers this very well.

Naturally it is granted that no matter how long the book is it will never be able to describe all the possible usage but if you know what questions to ask and where to find info - you are in business.

For instance, Moock doesn't go into video or audio. But, being equipped with a solid understanding you can easily find supplemental more focused publications.

I looked at ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook and although it shows some technics it looks pretty uninspiring and useless after Moock's book.

Hope it helps.

ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook
by Joey Lott Darron Schall Keith Peters

ActionScript 3.0 Bible
by Roger Braunstein, Mims H. Wright, Joshua J. Noble

Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0
by Todd Yard, Peter Elst, Sas Jacobs,

I am very fond of Colin Moock's "Essential ActionScript 3.0" from O'Reilly (Adobe Developer Library). It is both a thorough introduction to as3 and an OOP textbook.