Sirkent,

Thanks for the input.


I will be honest with you. I understand in concept what you are saying. I have been messing around with a Web Template I got and it calls for variables located in a text file in the directory of the Flash Banner.
Playing with that taught me more than the book ever did. But incorporating that into a Web Page is beyond my comprehension at this point.

I did check out the Sam's Book, however it dealt almost exclusively with animation aspects and almost nothing on action script. I can do the animation and have a good understanding of that aspect of the program. It is the programming part I am suffering with.

Most of these books I have read, including the Flash book, goes on for hundreds of pages about syntax, operators, functions, etc. But it will completely lose someone who knows nothing about programming.
A book of examples of “ This- Does This” would teach a lot more than straight definitions. Which is probably why I learned more from the template than from the book.

You might be able to explain in greater detail how to put the variables in a Web Page, but I will still not understand what I am doing. So I will still be back crying for help all over again on something else.

There is no way any of you can teach me the basics of programming over a Discussion Board.

But you can tell me where to start to at least comprehend what I am reading.
Once I do that I can figure it out myself.

So would I be better off reading basic books on actionscript and working my way up from there or would learning javascript from a beginner on up be easier?

I know enough at this point to know the two are very similar, the problem is all of these books are assuming a given amount of familiarity with programming to begin with. They all start out talking about C+ and Perl and Regular java in the first paragraph and the differences between them. That's great if you know something about those other languages. But if you don't, you are already a goner before you get off the first page.

I feel very much like someone in a calculus course who hasn’t even learned algebra yet.

So give me an idea where to start- how do you get the basics?

If I can get a basic understanding of this, I can do it myself.

The thing that amazes me the most is the thousands of pages I have already read and how little I really know.

I am hoping that once I learn Flash, and more importantly Action Script, that the rest will come a lot easier. All of these topics, CSS, SSI, and a host of others you guys use in your work , seem to be interrelated in that if you comprehend one, you will have a head start on the others.

At least it appears that way to someone who really doesn’t know anything.