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ActionScript Cookbook Review by Argie
extremely helpful, even under Flash 8 / AS2
The Actionscript Cookbook is an extremely useful resource for aspiring and veteran designers. I've been designing/developing since Flash 4 and I still found this book very insightful and full of great hints and explanations.
A decent book for beginners but better for intermediate to advanced developers and designers. I'd recommend Colin Mook's Actionscript for Flash MX (also by O'Reily) which explores more fundamental concepts in Actionscripting 1 which are still pertinent in many cases to AS2.
I appreciated the code examples, although admittedly I think I did remember finding a few errors, however the errors were on the nitpicking typo level and I usually found after getting annoyed thatI hadn't written the code correctly.
Their example on Storing Persistent Shared Local Objects (flash cookies) was particularly useful.
Well organized and clear (and no, I'm not affliated with O'Reilly, lol)