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Nuf said. Maybe when things slow down :)

Ok, I set myself a goal for learning actionscript a few years back. I never looked at myself as a programmer or coder but….. This goal is totally worth it. I can now consider myself a Actionsript / Flex / Flash developer.

The reality is this. You will always be learning actionscript. Whatever you do don’t ever think you are going to know it all. I am around some really heigh level developers that I consider 10 times better than me and they are always learning new things about Flash, actionscript, and Flex, and what you can do with the language or Flash Player technologies.

This is by far the best thing I have done in my live. It has totally changed what I do for a living forever.

If you get a chance I am all about helping people learn actionscript. Please check out my blog and all the resources that I link to from there.

http://flashalisious.com

Got to get back to the gym!

Adobe put out actionscript 3 (AS3) this year. There are a tone of books and tutorials out there now. So do you dive in or not? The short answer is….Yes. If you want to be able to do some really cool things on your flash or flex projects then you need to start digging in.

AS3 will give you a tone of performance improvements and some are the new features are just great. If you are a new user to actionscript don’t start with AS2. Everything is headed for AS3 in a hurry. There are quite a few changes to the code and the way you code buttons and events are totally different in AS3. If you are a big AS2 user you will feel like this takes a lot longer but you will see and understand the benefit after you start using the new code.

So I guess I am updating my goal. It is Always to “Learn Actionscript” but now it is to Learn Actionscript 3.

There are some great books out there. Check out http://oreilly.com. I would say you need to pick up Essential Actionsript 3.0 and Actionscript 3.0 Cookbook ASAP.

learn more at Adobe Labs

Good luck and keep coding.

I have been learning as much actionscript as I can. It is a constant daily learning process. Right now I am starting to read this book called Actionscript Animation by Kith Peters. Very cool stuff. If you have not read this book you have to get it. You will learn all kinds of cool actionscript animation. Great stuff. Soon I will be posting some stuff that I learned in this book to my blog. http://flashalisious.com

If any of you want to join in on my blog I would love to have as many actionscript enthusiasts comment and join up as I can. We all will benefit as a community if we will share Ideas and work with each other.