IN THIS PART

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Part I starts this book off with a collection of basic overviews, spanning Chapter 1 and Chapter 2. It begins with a survey of ActionScript, providing a list of new feature highlights, a brief explanation of procedural versus object-oriented programming, and gets you started right away with your first script.

It concludes with a review of core language fundamentals, most of which remain consistent across all versions of ActionScript. The material at the outset of the book serves as an introduction to ActionScript for those new to the language, or as a refresher for those already familiar with it, and allows you to focus later on ActionScript 3.0–specific syntax.