Flash and AS3 links - general
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Across the board
- Flash resources @ Adobe Resource Center
AS3 Language Reference
- ActionScript 3.0 Language and Components Reference @ Adobe livedocs
Cheatsheets
Feeds aggregators
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 (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.).
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