December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
1088 pages
192h 4m
English
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PART I
I. ActionScript Fundamentals
Part I covers the core syntax and grammar of the ActionScript language: variables,
data, statements, functions, event handlers, arrays, objects, movie clips, and compo-
nents. By the end of Part I, you’ll know everything there is to know about writing
ActionScript programs.
• Chapter 1, A Gentle Introduction for Nonprogrammers
• Chapter 2, Variables
• Chapter 3, Data and Datatypes
• Chapter 4, Primitive Datatypes
• Chapter 5, Operators
• Chapter 6, Statements
• Chapter 7, Conditionals
• Chapter 8, Loop Statements
• Chapter 9, Functions
• Chapter 10, Events and Event Handling
• Chapter 11, Arrays
• Chapter 12, Objects and Classes
• Chapter 13, Movie Clips
• Chapter 14, Movie Clip Subclasses and Components
• Chapter 15, Lexical Structure
• Chapter 16, ActionScript Authoring Environment
• Chapter 17, Building a Flash Form
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