They say you shouldn’t count your eggs before they hatch, but I figure this is more like counting your fetuses in the third trimester. Either way, I’d like to announce that our new book, ActionScript 3.0 Bible (Wiley), is in the final stages of editing and will be out this Fall! Roger Braunstein, Joey Lott, Josh Noble, and myself, Mims Wright have been busily typing since August or so to make it happen. As this is our first book (except for Joey) we’re very excited to see it finally coming together.
The description on Amazon is gravely inaccurate and the cover design is atrocious, however, you are welcome to pre-purchase it with my guarantee that it is not bad.
The AS3 Bible is a comprehensive guide to learning ActionScript 3.0. It’s platform agnostic with regards to Flash CS3 and FlexBuilder – we focus on ActionScript only rather than frameworks. Every effort has been made to approach the language from a point of view where a beginner with little programming knowledge could pick up the book and learn AS3. At the same time the book addresses the needs of experienced Flash programmers by highlighting the new features in AS3 as they relate to previous versions of ActionScript. We think this book will be a great read for beginning to intermediate developers looking to learn ActionScript 3.0 and will make a great reference book for more advanced developers. Look for it in September or October of 2007
I concur, if you are looking to learn AS3, this will be the action-packed book to have!
(Mandatory plug alert!) And if you’re looking to learn just Flex, my book in O’Reilly’s Short Cuts series, Introduction to Flex 2 is here for you!
But seriously, wait for the AS3 Bible. It’s gonna rox0r your s0x0rs.
eek, that is a frightening cover.
I’m very eager to get this book, as that previous ______ Bible series editions have been very good.
It’s October and still no book! Wish you guys had a date for release so the anticipation would stop slapping me around.
Gots ta have it!
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got my hands on the book – how come there are no source files available on the website?