Flash Resources

Nice site. I would also suggest adding my site. It is updated alot with new flash tutorials and sometimes swift 3D tutorials.

http://www.awestyproductions.com

Nice list.

Question for you all. I’m a 100% Noob at Flash, and I keep on getting recruiters calling asking if I know it, and it’s more frustrating every time I have to say “nope, sorry”.

My first step is to install the free stuff on my XP machine - in other words, have the ability to compile/create something in Flash, before I even want to entertain a tutorial on Actionscript or anything else.

So my questoin is: Is the best link to follow, this one below ? :

http://www.actionscript.com/Article/tabid/54/ArticleID/towards-open-source-flash-development/Default.aspx

I found this link under the “Tutorial” section in the first post of this excellent thread and clicked on the “ActionScript” link where there were a bunch of resources there and then found the “Towards Open Source Flash Development” link.

At this point, I don’t really want to know about Frameworks, or OO Dev’t for Flash, etc… Just want to write something in Flash, so that I could pass an Interview, and then be able to write ActionScript for an employer. That be all.

Thanks. My question, to sum up, is: would this link be a good one i.e. downloading Eclipse and all the tools on that page?

Steve

Update
I joined the “osflash” mailing list, and posted a similar question on how to get started programming Flash on windows, with free tools and got this response:

To start developing with only os tools, the following tools might be of interrested :

As an IDE you can use :
Eclipse + ASDT (as2)
Flashdevelop (as2/as3)

As a compiler you can use :
Flex 2 SDK (actionscript 3)
MTASC (actionscript 2)

In case anyone here wants to join:

osflash mailing list
osflash@osflash.org
http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org

Another update:

is a probably better link for starting out completely new with ActionScript on Win platform

Excellent list. I would like to tag on http://megaswf.com which provides free swf hosting. Also, the swfobject folks recently uploaded v2.0 to http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/ and v1.5 remains on the blog.

Lee Brimelow (Author of gotoAndLearn.com ) also has a blog about Flash related topics - http://theflashblog.com/

Thanx M40_ :slight_smile:

Hello i think beedigital dot net should be on there to

so great!!

Great list dude!

how bout adding the flash script gallery?

I like flash-valley. This now my reference.
Thanks for sharing it.

I just want to add “tutorialized” one of my favorite also. :slight_smile:

flashactionscripttutorial com
for Actionscript resources

wow that’s a great list, I had to bookmark here :slight_smile:

hi Tijmen , i read your post its really very useful to flash beginner thanks for sharing this information please provide the actionscript for it, thanks again…

Here’s another one: http://www.flashstall.com/

Here are some books that I would definitely recommend:

Learning Actionscript 3.0 by Rich Shupe and Zevan Rosser
Foundation Game Design with Flash by Rex van der Spuy
Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation “Making Things Move!” by Keith Peters

@Tijmen

Would www.mmfiles.com fit in this list?

Thank you.

hey Tijmen
I think another useful link is www.flashconf.com can you add it?