Getting Started

Adobe Flash Professional CS5 provides a comprehensive authoring environment with tools for working with 2D and 3D animation, sound, vector and bitmap graphics, text, and video. Adobe ActionScript 3.0 is a sophisticated programming language that is totally integrated into Flash CS5 to develop rich interactive projects. The ActionScript techniques that you will learn in this book can be used with the great design and animation tools in the Flash interface to create rich interactive applications, games, e-learning content, and e-commerce tools for the web, the desktop, and mobile devices.