How to learn AS3?
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How does everyone learn AS3? Are there any good books or good sites to learn AS3?
Or can anyone give me some tips on learning AS3.
Thanks.
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I started with www.lynda.com. The have allot of excellent tutorials. I started there with Flash and AS3. They are video tutorials, and you can repeat them if you need to. It is a paid service (eithier purchase the DVD or join lynda) It gave me a good base to explore other more advanced features in AS3 (not to advanced...I'm not that good yet).
After that I went to different sites with tutorials, of things that I wanted to try, and learned by taking what I got from the tutorials and
tried it myself. (lots of trial and may errors).
For those things I need help on I can't find anywhere else I come here. EXTREMELY HELPFUL!
Hope you find what your looking for and have fun with it
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I've never been fond of books and avoid them for the most part... I'll occasionally pull out the dictionary to be sure I'm using a word correctly, but that's about it. My approach to learning AS3 involved having a fairly good (not great) self-trained background in AS2, and deciding one day to take the plunge to learn AS3. So I concocted a project that involved some fairly complicated workings and set about tackling it, one error message after another. As is the case with JonnyDL, many trials and errors. I believe I learn more making errors and solving problems. I usually encourage people to fight the battles, lose the hair and sleep... the victories are sweeter and the learning tends to stick.
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I agree with all the comments. Colin Moock's book is a good intro but there's no substitute for the crash-and-burn school. Even after you've been working with ActionScript for years, you can pick up something new here every day from more experienced users by sharing the problems you're having.

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I too agree with the comments here, and took much the same approach of trial and error learning. Another resource that I've found extremely useful is the included help files in Flash. Both the Programming ActionScript 3.0 section and the ActionScript 3.0 Language and Components reference are items I use frequently. The Language Refernece in particular has been useful with new concepts, since almost every class entry includes example code that can be copied and pasted into a blank FLA. Ultimately it's about putting in the time to understand the model, and gaining the experience to understand why things happen so that you'll know how to create the applications or projects you need. And as previously mentioned, the community here is one of the best on the internet, everyone is extremely friendly and helpful.
Good luck!
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Thanks. These are some good answers

