About the Book

The ActionScript 3.0 Bible, 2nd Edition, aims to be your ultimate guide to ActionScript 3.0, the common language of the Flash Platform. It's written by a programmer for programmers (and aspiring programmers!), with as much detail as could possibly be crammed into a thousand page tome. It is completely up-to-date with the absolute bleeding edge of Flash — Flash Player 10.1 and the common features in Flex 4, AIR 2, and Flash Professional CS5 — buy now and enjoy fresh!

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• Massively updated and revised
• Program for mobile devices including Palm WebOS, Android 2.0, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone 7 Series!
• Learn AS3 you’ll use in Flash Professional CS5, Flash Builder 4, Flex 4, and AIR 2
• Run and modify over 200 new examples in your browser, with no software or setup required
• Use the speedy new Vector class
• Interface with web services in any language
• Display print-quality text with the Flash Text Engine and Text Layout Framework
• Learn 3D math and program your own 3D engine with AS3
• Write and run powerful pixel shaders with Pixel Bender
• Synthesize and analyze sound digitally
• Display, analyze, and capture audio and video

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Samples

Excerpts provided by Wiley include the Table of Contents (PDF) and Chapter 1: Introducing ActionScript 3.0 (PDF).

You can also read some of the book on its Amazon page.

The whole text of the book is available through Safari Books Online!

About the Stylish and Handsome Author

Roger Braunstein is a multidisciplinary programmer and the Chief Roger Officer of partlyhuman inc., an independent development and design shop in Brooklyn, NY. Besides this book, Roger is an author of the first edition of ActionScript 3.0 Bible, and a short e-book, Introduction to Flex 2. Roger builds games, mobile apps, interactive art, tools, web apps, and websites using any technology he can wrap his head around. In just the past two years he's built stuff for LEGO, MoMA, Tim Burton, Antony and the Johnsons, AOL, HBO, Puma, General Mills, Sport Chalet, Pepsi, Coke, The French Culinary Institute, OMGPOP, and more. Additionally, he keeps busy with a series of independent projects. Did I mention he wrote a thousand-page book, too? When not in front of a computer, Roger enjoys normal human activities such as biking, cooking, reading, traveling, taking photos, rollerskating, and dancing to music made on GameBoys. He is perpetually too preoccupied to put anything interesting on his site http://partlyhuman.com/, but you can use it to get in touch with him.