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Lynda.com is a pretty good place for beginning.

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Get yourself on a short course, or go to Lynda.com and pay for one
months membership ($20) and follow the AS3 training videos on there.
Their pretty good. Also, bookmark actionscript.com and actionscript.org,
as well as the excellent kirupa.com. I also suggest buying Adobe's
ActionScript3 Cookbook, very good for reference code and some of the
theory and explanations behind things.

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x theSpaceGirl (miranda)

http://www.northleithmill.com

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Tips:
1. You won't learn anything through the Adobe forums. I don't think there are
very many people out here because nobody ever answers any posts. When you are
looking at forums... Look at the number of replies and when they were replied
to. Go to Flashkit.com. They reply to 98% of the posts in a timely fashion.

2. Search Google for AS3 Video Tutorials or beginner tutorials.

Hope it helps.

Wayne

that's a pretty inaccurate thing to say spectacular. the overwhelming majority
of posts in this forum have replys. and the posts in this forum that have no
replys are almost always either

1. not related to an actionscript issue
2. ask responders to download a file
3. contain many lines of code.

No way. I mean 26,325 replies. You must just be responding to the same one post
over an over!

SpectacularStuff ? you are so blowing smoke up somebody's orifice!

FireFreek ? I find it hard to belive that you watched all the demos and
learned them all in about 6 hours? Considering that the site lists 7.5 hours of
training just for AS3 alone!

Anyways, the best way to learn AS is by doing it. Pick yourself a small
project. Break it down into its component parts and try and do it. Read the
help files ? personally I found them more helpful in Flash 7 and 8, but they
aren't too bad and will help you out.

Don't be afraid to put aside whatever you are actually working on to make a
small little test file to see how some specific little part of your project
would work.

And post here with specific questions. Don't expect anybody to do the whole
project for you ? well NSurveyor might, but he hasn't been around so much
lately! :)

So for example don't expect that you will be able to build a fully functional
dynamically loaded and user configurable video/mp3 player with closed
captioning, e-mail interaction, and an xml generated photogallery on the first
day. Also don't expect that anybody is just going to do the coding for you!

Work on parts of it. Work on just some basic video or just a little dynamic
XML from a back end database, etc. Ask for specific help in specific posts.
Different volunteers here have different skills and areas of expertise so it is
good to get their attention by creating posts that reference their specific
topics.

Good luck.

PS: The forums have been down for most of the past week due to a planned (and
failed) forum update from Adobe. So if that may be why it seems that there
aren't too many questions being answered. But usually these are very lively
forums.

Hey,

All I know is my related issues and a lot of other related issues that are
here. Not even a comment in them. I even had to reask for help with something
that nobody bothered to answer. What other impression am I to receive from
these forums. There were a lot of others in here that I noticed were here
after 3 days unanswered. The posts that I had went unanswered except for 2
now; this one and another one. (Giving credit where credit is due, that person
that answered the post is brilliant at AS3 WOW!!!!).

What else am I supposed to think? After my other post was here for 4 days
unanswered I posted in flashkit and had help in about 2 hours. You tell me
what to think. When I wrote that I looked and the first page of requests and
all of the replies were 0,0,0,0,0,17,0,0,4 or something close to that
(including mine that had been there for 4 days and was close to the top.)

Wayne

Yes there are many active people. A lot of folks use newsreaders to answer
questions and those folks don't show a count under their names. Also some come
and go more than others and you might see them for awhile, but then not for a
few weeks.

None of us (at least that I know) are paid by Adobe for this. There are a few
authors and others who might have some other arrangements with Adobe.

Despite the past week. I would say that this is one of the quickest,
liveliest, and best places to get advice that I have visited for the last 5
years. And yes while we could navigate here during the past few days you might
have noticed a distinct lack of "reply" or "new topic" buttons almost the
entire time.

I didn't notice the lack of new topic buttons or reply hence how I was able to
post topics and reply to this one. However I must say that today's look at the
first page shows that almost all but 1 post has been answered which is indeed a
major improvement and kglads response time to my other post was quite quick.

Wayne

i don't think anyone was able to post in any of the adobe flash forums (and
probably the other forums) between 9/23 and 9/28. adobe was attempting to
change the basic structure of all their forums. it appears they've given-up,
at least, for now and we're back to the old forum setup.