Flash and AS3 links - tutorials
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Flash Tutorials
This section only should index good and free tutorials. No junk indexes with nothing but advertisements. There is a problem with Flash Version. Various Flash versions are considerably different and most sites include older stuff...
Web sites with tutorials
- Both just links or "real" repositories
- Since there exist very little Flash 9-only collections, I also include sites with older information. There is quite a huge difference between ActionScript 2 and 3, but drawing and the elements of the Flash environment (timeline, etc.) are not that different.
- Collections - both text and videos
- Lloyd Rieber's Flash Tutorials (both text and video)
- Adobe Flash Developer Center. Includes some tutorials, including video tutorials
- Oman3D. Contains both good text and video tutorials (the latter from learnflash.com).
- Steve tutes (good, but Flash 8)
- FlZone.net has a tutorial section with ratings (links to other sites)
- Flalog, self-described as Flash Actionscript Tutorial Solution Experience
- Collections - mostly video
- Video tutorials at Adobe
- Wikivid Flash. Index of Video Tutorials (mostly Flash 8, but CS3 is similar) from the whole web. Probably the biggest index of training videos.
- cartoonsmart.com/ Includes three good Flash video tutorials, e.g. shape tweening and a button tutorial.
- LearnFlash.com. (Some good free ones, scroll down, for more registration is needed)
- GotoAndLearn, a long list of video tutorials.
- Collections - mostly text tutorials
- lukamaras.com Probably one of the best short tutorials site (mostly Flash MX/Flash 8)
- Flash/ActionScript Tutorials at Kirupa. Gook, but mostly < Flash 9
- WebWasp (some content is free, *.fla files are sold)
- W3School Flash Tutorial. Short step-by-step tutorials.
- ToxicLab.org. About 99 little Flash tutorials submitted by various people. The ones I have seen are short and nice.
- Collections - to sort out
- EchoEcho.com Flash Tutorials (including drawing, tweening and buttons, etc.)
- Flashkit.com (A Flash Developer Resource Site)
- Find "Adobe Flash CS3" on YouTube.
- Flash Tutorial at webworksite (For Flash 5, but still useful).
- Flash Kit Index of Tutorials (lots of outdated ones too).
- Tutorom.com. For now only a tutorial on Flex or some old versions of Flash. Expected to see AS3 tutorials appear in the near future (the site manager is fond of Flex).
- Flash Tutorials @ smartWebby. I haven't tried any of them, no idea what they are worth.
- Flash @ TutorialsOutpost. I haven't tried yet. Not clear whether covers CS3.
- Subsites of http://about.com, e.g. webdesign and [http:animation.about.com animation] have several flash related resources. You need to search ...
Recommended introductory CS3 tutorials
- Basics (graphics and animation)
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- ActionScript 2.0
- Simple Design Patterns in Adobe Flash MX by Peter Parente. ActionScript 2.0
- ActionScript 3.0
Academic Flash courses
(should include lecture notes or Slides, plus examples)
- Introduction to Flash, Marie Taylor-Harper (Advanced Flash, under preparation ?)
General AS 3 Tutorials
- Adobe's Developer Center includes many "quickstart" articles but also more substantial tutorials and finally book excerpts. Examples:
- Filtering XML data in Flash applications using ECMAScript for XML
- Filtering and formatting data in the DataGrid component
- ActionScript and object-oriented programming (several good tutorials at Adobe's Flash Developer Center)
- ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook excerpts: From custom classes to the rendering model (Several free chapters of this book)
- Migrating your Flash applications to ActionScript 3.0
- Tutorials at ActionScript.org has several action script tutorials, e.g.
- Flepstudio has a series of tutorials.
- Flash-db.com has a series of tutorials.
Game Programming
- Actionscript 3 (AS3) Game Primer @ 8bitrocket
Component programming
(to sort out)
- AS3 Mouse Events and Mouse Related User Actions by Drawk - Really useful.
- Quick Tips for Making ActionScript 3 Components by Ben Stucki.
- ActionScript 3.0 Forums at Kirupa.com. Also includes [ ActionScript 3 Tip of the Day]
- Animating Dynamic MovieClips in AS3 by Kirupa.
- Eric Cancil. A blog with AS3 code.
- $.console A console for debuggin, pops up over your application (looks good, not tested so far).
AS 3 Example-based tutorials
- Flash Tutorial - Copy Motion as ActionScript 3.0
- Metah.ch has a series of tutorials with source code.
AS 3 Examples
- Flex Treemap Component
- Updated: List of Best Animation Packages for AS3
- On user-triggered and user-controlled interface animation