I recently started learning ActionScript 3.0 for visualization. It’s object-oriented, just like C++ and Java, so I was thinking the learning curve should not be too steep. However, it took me a weekend and two more days to finish the first “hello world” type project.
A good thing is, Adobe provides free Flex 3 to students and faculties! And the development environment is quite handy to use.
Here are some useful websites:
flash error look up: quite useful for debugging.
http://judahfrangipane.com/errorsearch/ErrorLookup.html
Flex 3 API reference:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/
flare API reference:
http://flare.prefuse.org/api/
Google Maps Flash API reference:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/flash/reference.html
flare discussion forum:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=757572
http://goosebumps4all.net/34all/bb/forumdisplay.php?fid=28
