Flash and AS3 links - general

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See also:

• Flash
• AS3 Links Tutorials

Across the board

• Flash resources @ Adobe Resource Center

AS3 Language Reference

• ActionScript 3.0 Language and Components Reference @ Adobe livedocs

Cheatsheets

• actionscriptcheatsheet.com
• ActionScript 3.0 cheatsheet

Feeds aggregators

• Actioncript, Haxe, Neko, Flex, Air feeds

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

Sites with codes and Examples

• Kirupa.com

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Documentation Links

See also Adobe Flex

Reference manuals

• ActionScript 3.0 Language & Component Reference
• Adobe Flex 2.0.1 Language Reference
• Flex 2 LiveDocs: Programming ActionScript 3.0

Other documentation

• Adobe Livedocs has fairly good documentation (maybe not suitable for beinners) e.g.
  • Getting started with ActionScript

• ActionScript 3 from Adobelabs. Maybe superseded by the above doc, maybe not ...

• ActionScriptCheatSheet.com Look at the downloads. Several excellent ActionScript cheatsheets.

AS2 vs. AS3 comparisons

• 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 :)

Overviews

• Grossman, Gary and Huang, Emmy (2006). ActionScript 3.0 overview, Adobe.
• ActionScript (Wikipedia)
• Comparing the syntax of Java 5 and ActionScript 3