What are some good books for Object Oriented Progamming in Actionscript 2

Question

What are some good books for developing a better understanding of Object oriented programming in Actionscript 2 and Flash ?

Answer 1

Essential ActionScript 2.0 from O'Reilly

Its got a great examples of most of the object oriented concepts including inheritance, polymorphism, interfaces and even how to implement MVC concepts into your Flash app to separate design from logic as much as possible.

This book not only got me up to speed on OOP concepts in Flash, but solidified my understanding of object oriented programming in general.

Answer 2

I'll second the recommendation for Moock's book (Essential ActionScript 2), and throw one in for Object Oriented ActionScript for Flash 8, too; there's some overlapping concepts between them, but I enjoyed having the voices four different authors in a single book. (Plus I usually find the FriendsOfEd texts a bit more reader-friendly in general than the O'Reillys, just tonally.)

I also found De Donatis's book Advanced ActionScript Components enlightening as well -- it's a bit more advanced, so you might want to stash it away on a wishlist and come back to it later if you're new to OO and AS, but it's well worth the effort; it covers the Flash component architecture and its extension in great detail, and introduces XLEFF, De Donatis's XML-based layout engine, which is somewhat conceptually similar to Flex, and an interesting option if you're working in AS2-land.