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)

• The best Flash game creation tutorial 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)

• Webdeveloper notes

• 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

• cbtcafe flash tutorials

• 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 Valley

• Flash Kit Index of Tutorials (lots of outdated ones too).

• Netdiver Flashware

• 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

• Getting Started with ActionScript 3.0 in Adobe Flash CS3

CS4 tutorials

CS4 introduction

• Introducing Adobe Flash CS4 Professional by Doug Winnie
• Video tutorials at Adobe TV has some CS4 video tutorials

ActionScript 3.0

• Flash CS4 Tutorial : Using the drawTriangles method to render 3D objects

Academic Flash courses

(should include lecture notes or Slides, plus examples)

• Introduction to Flash, Marie Taylor-Harper (Advanced Flash, under preparation ?)

Actionscript 3.0 and related tutorials

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

• Getting Started with ActionScript 3.0 in Adobe Flash CS3

• Tutorials at ActionScript.org has several action script tutorials, e.g.
  • Getting started with Actionscript 3

• Kirupa, e.g.
  • Using XML in Flash CS3/AS3

• 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.

• Sending Variables to PHP from Flash And Back again! (AS2)

• 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

Sites with codes and Examples

• Kirupa.com