Recource Exploration

For my second blog post, I did another recourse exploration. When I was working on my SIMON flash game project I ran into a few problems, and as a result I had to do a littel research and reading to figure out how to work through this problems. The first site i visited was called Republic of Code wich contains a vast amount of informaiton on AS3(actionscript 3) I needed to freshen up on some of my knowledge about event handling, arrays, and working with sound. The contain very simple and easy to understand explanations, and even instill you with some of the logic of why and how you would use certain elements, such as a using a MouseEvent over an Event. Republic of code definately keeps it very simple and light in order not to confuse the reader.
The websites interface is very easy to use and navigate; the menus are self explanitory and one can even use a search engine if they are unable to find exactly what they are looking for in the menu. They also maintain a forum section where people can share and collaborate on different AS3 projects, and one might be able to find some help. I myself used this forum and found people willing to help me work through my SIMON project. Republic of Code is maintained regularly and is up to date on the new and current AS3 code principles.

http://www.republicofcode.com/

The other resource I checked out might help some people who don't have the money to buy expensive AS3 coding books, or also for people who are looking for books that might be more to their gear of learning. O'Reilly Media (O'Reilly publishing compnay) offers free chapters of their published books for people to view. Though limmited in what they provide for people to read for free, it is still plenty of knowledge one might be able to use. I personally used it to find a way to use arrays inside a timer and for loop; i later came to the realization that was the the most effective method, but what I read did give me a start in the right direction. O'Reilly offers some of the best resource books out there for AS3, and the ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook, a very heavy duty resource book for more advance users. Though some of their material is geared for advanced users, they also offer free chapters for beginners and intermediate users. Also if you are looking to buy a resource book, and don't want to go to the hassle of going down to your book store and look through them, O'Reilly gives you the benefit of looking through some of these chapters and see if you like the book enough to buy it. Again though the numbers of chapters they offer for free is limmited, they still contain plenty of basic principles crucial to further developing AS3 code, just check out their archives,

http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/