OK, now I don’t want to come off as very negative here.  But I have got to say that I am surprised at how slow the Adobe Flash site works.  It seems to take a very long time to pull info from the Actionscript online Dictionary.  I can only assume that they are using Flash to display this info and that may be why it takes so long. 

Thinking about my time with the Adobe site makes me compare it to Sun’s Java site.  Maybe it is because Java is a more structured language while Actionscript is a script, but I have a much easier time tracking down info on the Java site.  Of course, learning Java is much more difficult than Actionscript.  I have to admit that I find Actionscript’s fast and loose variable definition a bit hard to keep track of.  I like the strong typing in Java.  But I got up to speed on basic Actionscript in a few days.  Java takes longer than that to learn.

My greatest help for learning Flash and Actionscript is not from Adobe but from Flash gurus who have posted examples and tutorials on their sites.  Without these sites, I would be weeks away from completing my Flash projects.  A few that have proven helpful for me are

 http://www.kirupa.com/

http://www.cbtcafe.com

http://www.webdevelopersnotes.com

 Thanks for all the help.

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