Thursday, December 24, 2009

How long does actionscript take to learn and where can i learn it outside of college?

As the question says how long does it take to learn actionscript and where can i learn outside of college?How long does actionscript take to learn and where can i learn it outside of college?
The problem is that learning ActionScript requires learning a lot of other programming concepts. Usually these concepts (OOP concepts) are taught with more meat and potatos languages like Java and C#.





But don't be discouraged because if you are willing to learn than you can do this no problem. If you don't know Flash pick up Flash Professional 8 by H.O.T at lynda.com. ISBN 0-321-29388-6. Okay, and the next thing you need to do is just pick up an ActionScript book. Just go to your local book store and look in the computer section. Look for the book with the most code and fewest pictures. If you buy one book it'll be about $50 and if you buy two it'll be about $100. That might seem like a lot but it's well worth it.





You may come into problems where you don't understand the terminology. Just read up on OOP (try Java, it's not hard) and then come back to ActionScript once you get it down. If you actually work at this you can be making websites in a week and games in a few weeks.





Good luck!How long does actionscript take to learn and where can i learn it outside of college?
Most colleges don't teach Actionscript. But there are two type of people in this case :





The person with no programming experience, it will take this person over a month to understand the concepts and basic about Actionscript because they don't have any previous programming knowledge.





The person with programming experience this it will take this person less than a week to under how to program in Actionscript because they know how a program works.





To learn Actionscript you can just buy a book they are pretty cheap now or days it should cost you about 10 bucks or you can check out this website http://www.ahfx.com/ which has a basic tutorial and if you don't like to read just check out youtube they have tutorials there
How long? That depends on how good a programmer you are already. If you're not, figure on 6 months to learn programming first. Then about 3-6 months to learn AS. Then it's up to you how long it takes to become good at it.

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