Flash: Introduction

Flash can be argued to be a dying technology, but this is the time I picked to learn Flash. I have always wanted to learn it, but I never "got it". I can not think in the "visual way". Learning flash used to be about learning the IDE.

Luckily one can do first class flash programming today with actionscript3. AS3 is a javascript like language, with support for classes, namespaces, optional variable types etc.

There are command line tools to compile flash, but I have found the easiest way to do flash project using "Adobe Flash Builder". This is an eclipse based IDE, while I generally dislike IDEs, eclipse backing with support for refactoring, type based auto complete, debugger has mostly over come my problems with IDEs.

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