Flash development

I’ve been really bored the past few weeks so I’ve been thinking of stuff to do.

There’s still chores to be done but really, chores were made for procrastination!

I wanted to read new computer books but the delivery will not be for another 3-5 weeks. In the meantime I took out one of my old computer books: “Beginning Flash Game Development for Dummies”. Have had this book for ages but never really bothered to do the actual work. So I decided to make it my project for the upcoming weeks.

However, after some research I realised that the ActionScript used in the book is pretty much outdated. It’s still using Flash MX 2004.

My question now is – should I bother learning AS 2.0 or just move on to 3.0?

I guess 2.0 is good to learn but I won’t really be a full-time Flash developer so I don’t have any use for it. Learning 3.0 makes my book pretty useless though :(

Or I could just continue doing the work in the book and move to 3.0 when I’ve finished it.

What do you think?

January 31, 2010. Tags: actionscript, development, flash. Uncategorized.