Sams Teach Yourself ActionScript 3 in 24 Hours

Phillip Kerman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

400 Seiten

2025
Sams Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-672-33066-7 (ISBN)

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ActionScript 3 is the foundation language for Adobe's entire Flash Platform, which can be used to build applications of unprecedented richness and power. In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, Sams Teach Yourself Adobe ActionScript 3 CS4 in 24 Hours will help ActionScript 3 beginners and upgraders gain true mastery over ActionScript 3, so they can build production applications for virtually any environment. In this book's straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds on everything that's come before, helping you learn all of ActionScript 3's core features and techniques from the ground up. Friendly, accessible, and conversational, this book gives ActionScript 3 beginners a practical grounding in the entire language, without ever becoming overwhelming or intimidating. Coverage includes: creating interactivity, working with data and multimedia, using XML, designing effective programs, troubleshooting and debugging, and much more. Throughout, step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common ActionScript 3 questions, issues, and tasks... Q and As, Quizzes, and Exercises help you build and test their knowledge... "Did You Know?" tips offer you insider advice and shortcuts... and "Watch Out!" alerts help you avoid problems. By the time you've finished with these lessons, you won't just understand ActionScript 3: you'll be comfortable using it in real-world projects.

Philip Kerman is an internationally recognized expert on the use of the Web and multimedia for training and entertainment. He is author of the best-selilng Sams Teach Yourself Flash in 24 Hours and the highly-regarded Flash ActionScripting (New Riders). He frequently presents at Flash and Adobe development conferences, contributes to Flash publications, and has taught Flash and other Adobe authoring tools in workshops worldwide. Kerman programmed the all-Flash website www.m-three.com for Paris France Inc., a site that was included in both Communication Arts Interactive Design Annual and the British Design and Art Direction Annual.

PART 1. ACTIONSCRIPT BASICS
Hour 1. Where to ActionScript
Hour 2. Translating Thoughts to Code
Hour 3. Getting out of the Timeline
Hour 4. Understanding Datatypes (and Variables)
Hour 5. Listening for Trees Falling (Event based programming)
Hour 6. Assembling Building Blocks of Code
Hour 7. Consolidating Code Using Functions (could be “Using Functions”)
Hour 8. Manipulating Text and Handling Keyboard Events
Hour 9. Applying the Basics

PART 2. ADVANCED ACTIONSCRIPTING
Hour 10. Storing Multiple Values in Arrays
Hour 11. Drawing & Transforming Graphics Using Code
Hour 12. Pushing Pixels with the Bitmap Classes
Hour 13. Loading External Data
Hour 14. Using XML
Hour 15. Playing Sounds and Video with Code

PART 3. OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING AND CUSTOM CLASSES
Hour 16. Creating Custom Classes
Hour 17. Dispatching Custom Events
Hour 18. Extending Classes to Add Functionality
Hour 19. Extending Components and Native Classes
Hour 20. Understanding OOP
Hour 21. OOP Architectures and Design Patterns

PART 4. APPLIED ACTIONSCRIPT
Hour 22. Constructing Projects
Hour 23. Developing a Programmer's Attitude
Hour 24. Bulletproofing Your Code with Debugging and Testing

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.6.2025
Verlagsort	Indianapolis
Sprache	englisch
Maße	191 x 232 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Software Entwicklung
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Web / Internet ► Web Design / Usability
ISBN-10	0-672-33066-0 / 0672330660
ISBN-13	978-0-672-33066-7 / 9780672330667
Zustand	Neuware