Flash 5 book

[kid A]

I finally got around to buying a book about Flash 5 - and the one I got was SAMS Teach Yourself... in 24 hours/lessons. I got that because it was cheap and I only really want a brief introduction to flash, without all that ActionScript fancy. I'll get into that later.

Anyone have any experience with this book? I have two other SAMS books, Photoshop and PHP4, but haven't really looked that much at them. They do look good though, if not a little less intuitive than some other books.

Thoughts?

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[13kft]

you'll probably get more out of the tutorial included in Flash and the other tuts on macromedia.com.

The sam's books are just OK for graphics programs, they tend to offer a couple of nuggets of good stuff in a general blandness of tutorials. cheap they are, yes.

I would recommend the Visual Quickstart Guides for cheap books on graphics programs.

If you have the $$, the "friends of ed" books have interesting tutorials that go way beyond the usual "make the ducky move across the screen... make the ducky quack when you click..." I think the beginner book is called "foundation flash 5".

Flash rewards experimentation.