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 Very informational
I hate Flash. I bought this book to help me with flash. It was helpful and I started to understand the basics of flash. This is a must have for anyone getting into flash. I used this book but was unfortunately still not able to successfully learn flash, I guess flash and I will never get along, but I have faith in you that this book will help
 Excellent Resource
Great book--really helps me understand the concepts in Flash. Just in the first couple of chapters I knew alot more about the tools in flash and why I would use them.
 Somewhere between basic reference and step-by-step guide
I had to buy this book as it was used for a beginner's course on Flash, but I was very disappointed - not so much with the course but with this book. It tells you how to use this tool and how to use that tool, but never tells you WHY. Like, ok now I can convert to a MovieClip, but why would anyone want to do that, and so on and so on. If you know a bit about Flash, I guess you can easily dig up something in this book if you forgot how to motion tween or something - but then, as a reference guide as well, pretty much any other book on Flash is more thorough. Basically: this book is very superficial - I guess to not overload the novice - but then, it doesn't explain you much either. For the experienced Flash-user looking for a reference guide, look elsewhere.
It's a lookup book
Everyone who uses the Visual Quickstart Guides should be informed: they're lookup books, resources, not step-by-step how-tos.
Not so helpful
If you know your way around most toolbars, this book won't teach you much. It has been written for people who haven't used any complex software before. I had to buy the book for a course on Flash, but was disappointed when we covered most of the book in the first day. Easy to understand for a complete beginner. May be useful then.
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