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I noticed that action script 3 is almost overlooked subject in our forum, am I right?Is there anybody who is interested in that topic?Flash applications can not go anywhere without actionscript, so if you are interested in flash and would like to make something interactive with the action script programming is the route to go.Please let me know if you would like to share some samples or ideas in that topic.

In this short tutorial I'm going to show you a very basic flash animation of a fan, just in 3 lines. Assumed knowledge: Familiarity with Flash Professional interface and drawing tools 1- Open Flash Professional 2- Click File>New and select Flash File (ActionScript 3.0) 3- Use the drawing tools (brush or oval) to draw a fan shape 4- Select the shape you just drew and hit F8 to convert it to a movieclip, give it a name and make sure the registeration point is in the center, click OK 5- After clicking OK, the the movieclip you created needs an instance name. Select it and click PROPERTIES or hit Ctrl+F3 to open the properties window. Give it a name "fan" Now for the code. 6- Select the first frame and open the ACTIONS window by hitting F9 7- in the actions window type the following (notice the comments on the code after a //:) //This line means: every time the movieclip enter frame event hapens the function "rotatefan" runs fan.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, rotateFan); function rotateFan(e:Event):void{ //This line means rotating the fan around the registeration point(center in our case) 3 degrees clockwise fan.rotation += 3; } //end of code 8- Save your fla and hit Ctrl+Enter to run compike and run. Note: You could change the speed by increasing the rotation value. The compiled swf could be found here The source fla could be found here I hope that helps introducing a beginner to flash actionscript animation Comments are most welcome

In this review, I will talking about of many books that has been published by Sitepoint over the years, but what makes this book unique besides being free to download [https://www.sitepoint.com/thinking-web-voices-of-the-community/] its practically 12 books in itself as this book was written by several members of the Sitepoint community and thus brings several different perspectives as you read this book. Of course, when I say twelves books in one, most of what is covered can be found in Sitepoint's library itself or any book store on/offline that talks web or computer. You could say that if your interested in computers in some fashion or another, this would be a go to book to figure out where you want to start first. As this book covers three type of people; developers, designers, and programmers and of course the branches from those three main groups is too much for this review but gives you an idea what interests you the most. For me though, the chapter that stands out the most for me is "The Different TCP/IP Protocols" because this relating more towards computer hardware while the rest of the book is gear more towards internet based topics, such as, web design, web programming, graphic design etc. Of course, if you had ever taken a computer hardware course, like yours truly, or spent the time understanding the hardware or build computers from scratch. A lot of this information you should be able to recognize rather quickly. Such as the OSI model, TCP/IP model, how an IP address is broken down, the various protocols that use TCP/IP such as FTP, DHCP and of course the most important protocol of all HTTP. Though i would like to point out when it comes to TCP/IP, you would want more technical books that talk about it and prepare your brains to get all mushy after reading one of those books. Like I said though, this chapter stands out like a sore thumb just because its more technical then the rest of the book. Either way, this book is a fun read and worth getting, not because its free or anything but provides valuable information to help open you up to the world of computers.