Flash and AS3 links - documentation
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Documentation Links
See also
Across the board
- Flash resources @ Adobe Resource Center
Cheatsheets
Language References
- ActionScript 3.0 Language and Components Reference @ Adobe livedocs
- Adobe Flex 2.0.1 Language Reference
- Flex 2 LiveDocs: Programming ActionScript 3.0
Online books
- Programming Actionscript 3.0, Adobe Press, @ Adobe livedocs (814 pages)
Other documentation
- Adobe Livedocs has fairly good documentation (maybe not suitable for beginners) e.g.
- ActionScript 3 from Adobelabs. Maybe superseded by the above doc, maybe not ...
- ActionScriptCheatSheet.com Look at the downloads. Several excellent ActionScript cheatsheets.
Migrating from AS2 to AS3
- Understanding the changes in the display API in ActionScript 3.0 (short example code comparison)
- ActionScript 2.0 Migration (Adobe). This list list is huge :)
- Resources on Migrating from ActionScript 2 to ActionScript 3 @ mindsharestudio
Rapid Overviews/Presentations
- Grossman, Gary and Huang, Emmy (2006). ActionScript 3.0 overview, Adobe.
- ActionScript (Wikipedia)
- Comparing the syntax of Java 5 and ActionScript 3
- Object-Oriented Programming in ActionScript 3.0 by Peter Elst
- ActionScript 3 in Flash CS3 by mindshare studio
Books
- Essential Actionscript 3.0 by Colin Moock, O'Reilly. Comes with chapter excerpts and code examples
- Flash Game University by Gary Rosenzweig, Que (1st 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 (1st Ed.).