Flash Action Scripting for Beginners

[PolarBear]

Hello, can anyone recommended a book on learning Action Scripting for someone who has never touched action script or scripting period ? Something that does not make scripting strange?

[LeadMagnet]

I recommend the tutorials on Actionscript.org Flash, Flex & ActionScript Resources and Tutorials
They start slow and build up speed as fast as you want them too.
I had an actionscripting class in college, but the classes went so slow i ended up ignoring my lecturer and doing those tutorials instead. I made the right choice.

[flick]

cool, thanks for that Lead, am passing it to kelv as he's just started learning flash but the book he's bought doesn't have much about actionscript really :)

[Mack]

Amazon.com: Essential ActionScript 3.0 (Essential) (Essential): Colin Moock: Books

[kip]

A free Actionscript 3 book, opensourced

[fermanaziz]

ActionScript cookbook is good to start

[ofey]

Is it possible to write actionscript code in an editor save it as .swf or whatever and then play it in Flash player and not have to use the Flash program (which I can't afford) at all?

[Mack]

Your gonna need the application.

[LeadMagnet]

There is a 3rd party application for creating flash, and it's free i think, but not as good.
Actionscript files are text files and can be written in any text editor, but you'd still need and IDE to compile it into an SWF.

[ofey]

Folks, Thanks for the reply. I had not realise the .swf is a binary file. Do you know the name of this mysterious 3rd party application?!