Chapter 1. Introduction

Ready to start learning how to develop Flash Facebook applications? You will be in a few pages.

In this chapter, we will:

  • Learn what the big deal is about Facebook, and why you should be interested in developing an application for it
  • Get you set up with a web host, which you'll need for developing any online Facebook application
  • Establish how much AS3 you need to know already, and what to do if you don't
  • Take a quick look at the project that you'll be building throughout most of this book
  • Find out how to deal with the debugging complications that arise when developing a "browser-only" application like this

So let's get on with it...

What's so great about Facebook?

Seems like everyone's on Facebook these days—people are on it to ...

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