Learning Flash

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Myself and my partner are interested in learning Flash for the purpose of providing more impressive web based front end systems. We have a good background in software development, and more recently have attended courses in Photoshop & Illustrator. Their seems to be no courses offered (in the Galway area) for Flash 8 (or Flash at all for that matter).

What we want to know is (from those of you already well versed in Flash), what's the best way to learn. We both have found that learning programming languages from a book is far easier than trying to teach yourself graphics skills using tools such as photoshop and illustrator. For example it was to us anyway much more valuable to have someone who is a qualified graphics design tutor teach us about graphics design and using the software as tools, as opposed to burying our heads in a book and coming out the other end merely knowing how to find less obvious features. Is the same applicable to Flash in your opinion. I have lost count of the number of times I have been in a bookshop with the likes of "Flash 8 Bible" in my hand and have felt reluctant to make a purchase.

So firstly, do you know of any courses available in Galway?

do you know of any good online courses available?

Can you recommend a good book that will compliment our skills with programming and other adobe products. It's terrible because we have access to Flash software, we can see how it would be useful for what we want to do, yet we have no efficient way of learning it. It seems quite abstract from anything we've seen before, but then again I would be willing to put that down to the fact that our self learning approach to date has left us somewhat bewildered.

forbairt

In galway ... and don't know of any good courses ... that said I've also not looked ...

I'd recommend you check out lynda.com ... if you can spend a few quid .. 20 ? or 50 a month ... and can make the time you can get a hell of a lot of a return using lynda tutorials ...

I'm self taught ... and wouldn't be an expert and wouldn't be good with flash ... I can get things done with it when needs be ... and have done a fair bit of actionscipt in it

My recommendations ... get a good book ... join up with lynda for a month and see how you are getting on ...

I think a course will only take you so far ... its mostly down to ****ing about with it yourself and having the time to

Rancidmaniac13

http://www.cartoonsmart.com/

I'm pretty sure that's the URL. My friend learned flash from this website and it's pretty good. The first few video lessons are free but then you only have to pay for the ones you want. He does packages like menus, games and animation... It's pretty good, as far as I know. This guy certainly knows his stuff. Oh, and it's all videos so there's no boring theory stuff.

forbairt

Rancidmaniac13 wrote:

http://www.cartoonsmart.com/

I've seen their stuff before and while its good its geared more towards cartoonists so not exactly a front end ...

Huggles

http://www.flashkit.com/

The above has tutorials from the very very basic to the very advanced.

What I tell my juniors: practice, practice, practice, trial and error etc.

forbairt

TheGooner wrote:

http://www.flashkit.com/

The above has tutorials from the very very basic to the very advanced.

What I tell my juniors: practice, practice, practice, trial and error etc.

I'll see your flashkit .. and I'll raise you a ... http://www.kirupa.com/

Huggles

forbairt wrote:

I'll see your flashkit .. and I'll raise you a ... http://www.kirupa.com/

I see your Kirupa and I'll raise you http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash

forbairt

TheGooner wrote:

I see your Kirupa and I'll raise you http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash

and I'll possibley raise you a correct link cus yours broke :P

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash/index.htm

Huggles

forbairt wrote:

and I'll possibley raise you a correct link cus yours broke :P

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash/index.htm

I fold :mad: