Peachpit Releases ActionScript 3.0 for Adobe Flash CS3 Professional

October 26, 2007; 08:42 AM
Peachpit announced ActionScript 3.0 for Adobe Flash CS3 Professional by Todd Perkins (ISBN 0-321-29390-8), a hands-on guide to ActionScript 3.0, complete with insider tips and color illustrations.

ActionScript 3.0 for Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Hands-On Training provides a comprehensive review of ActionScript's features, from manipulating movie clips and responding to user actions with variables, to writing functions and conditional operators. Readers will learn how to add ActionScript to the Timeline of Flash movies, develop scripts in external ActionScript files, add content dynamically, control the playback of movies, and more. A CD-ROM with classroom-proven exercises and QuickTime training videos accompanies the book.

Author Todd Perkins is an Adobe Certified instructor who spends much of his time training people on Adobe's Web development software. Todd is half of the dynamic duo at the All Things Adobe podcast (chadandtoddcast.com). He is the author of the book Adobe Flash CS3 Professional: Hands-On Training, as well as ActionScript 3.0 in Flash CS3 Professional Essential Training in the Lynda.com Online Training Library.

About Peachpit
Berkeley-based Peachpit has been publishing the industry's best-selling books on the latest in graphic design, desktop publishing, multimedia, Web design and development, digital video and general Macintosh computing since 1986. Its award-winning books feature step-by-step explanations, time-saving techniques, savvy insider tips, and expert advice for computer users of all sorts. It is the home of the internationally recognized Visual QuickStart Guide series, the design imprint New Riders and its highly popular Voices That Matter series, and is the publishing partner for Adobe Press, lynda.com, NAPP, Apple Certified, AIGA Design Press and others. Peachpit is part of Pearson, the international media company. Pearson's primary operations also include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group. Learn more at www.peachpit.com and www.pearson.com.