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Very Happy Flash Newbie, Mar 12 2010
This review is from: Flash CS4 Professional Digital Classroom, (Book and Video Training) (Paperback)
This is my first review at Amazon, but I was so impressed with this book, I just had to let others know.
I was drowning to a sea of Flash information in a course I'm taking - lots of notes, lots of looooooong, hard-to-sit-through videos, and another text that just didn't seem to be jiving with my brain or learning style. I purchased this one in desperation to get some clear info or at least something that was concise and easy to read.
This was that book.
The authors take you through tutorials in each chapter, step by step (i.e., click here, choose that, do this, then that) and it's written in an easy style that helps learning - they even throw in a sense of humour here and there. Makes it much nicer to learn something that can be dry and brain-numbing.
I find the layout really nice. Some books are too "busy" with icons and side notes and what-not cluttering up the page. Not this one. It's clean and clear but you're never lost, just the same. (Who needs distracting icons??) And the full-colour printing is a huge plus as well.
This book comes with a disk that holds videos and sample files that you can work along with. HUGE bonus! The videos are great - long enough to run you through the techniques, very clear in instructions, but not dragged out or boring. In a word, *professional*.
The author is not only highly qualified with Flash, he obviously knows how to teach, as well. I'd highly recommend this book to anyone just starting out with Flash.
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