Flash and AS3 links - general

Draft

Across the board

• Flash resources @ Adobe Resource Center

AS3 Language Reference

• ActionScript 3.0 Language and Components Reference @ Adobe livedocs

Cheatsheets

• actionscriptcheatsheet.com
• [http://actionscriptcheatsheet.com/downloads/as3cs_top_level.pdf ActionScript 3.0 cheatsheet

Rapid Overviews/Presentations

• Object-Oriented Programming in ActionScript 3.0 by Peter Elst
• ActionScript 3 in Flash CS3 by mindshare studio

Online books

• Programming Actionscript 3.0, Adobe Press, @ Adobe livedocs (814 pages)

Books

• Essential Actionscript 3.0 by Colin Moock, O'Reilly. Comes with chapter excerpts and code examples
• Flash Game University by Gary Rosenzweig, Que (1th Ed.). All code in actionscript 3. Keeps away from OO programming for the most part. Comes with support forum and code examples.
• ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook: Solutions for Flash Platform and Flex Application Developers by Joey Lott, Darron Schall, Keith Peters, O'Reilly.
• Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move! by Keith Peters, Friends of ED.
• ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns: Object Oriented Programming Techniques, by William Sanders, Chandima Cumaranatunge, O'Reilly
• Advanced ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns by Joey Lott and Danny Patterson, Adobe Press (1th Ed.).

Migrating from AS2 to AS3

• Resources on Migrating from ActionScript 2 to ActionScript 3 @ mindsharestudio

Toolkits

• Papervision 3D
• APE (Actionscript Physics Engine). Free AS3 open source 2D physics engine for use in Flash and Flex, released under the MIT License

Sites with codes and Examples

• Kirup.com