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Hi I come from a background of 1 year of HTML/CSS/Javascript/PHP/MySQL and recently Flash based websites atracted my atention.I know that I have to learn Actionscript 3.0 and Flash program to create this type of websites but what other Technologies do I need to learn?
And also can you recomend some good books for each technology?
As @scriptocalypse mentioned Flash for general purpose sites might not be the best fit, however Flash is still widely used for Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and games.
Most seriously development with ActionScript is done with Flash Builder which may or may not include using the Flex framework to get a jumpstart on the UI. So I’d say definitely take a look at adding Flex to your list of things to learn.
Any large scale Flash/Flex app can get pretty unwieldy without a micro-framework, Adobe has pushed Cairngorm but I personally prefer Robotlegs, there’s also PureMVC which I used before Robotlegs (I prefer RL because it uses native AS3 events, as well as dependency injection which is easier to test).
Speaking of testing (which is always a good idea), there’s FlexUnit and ASUnit.
If you’re looking to get into game development Flixil and PushButton are popular frameworks.
The best programming book, ActionScript or otherwise, I’ve read is Essential ActionScript by Colin Moock. There’s a RobotLegs book out there but the website docs are so good you might not need it.