Introduction

Over the past few years I have been building up a small library of books and every once in a while there are posts of Flashkit asking for book recommendations, so I thought I would compile a collection here. Unless noted other wise, I actually own the books I have listed here and can recommend them from first hand experience.

ActionScript

ActionSctipt 3

• Essential Actionscript 3. 0 by Colin Moock

• Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation : Making Things Move! by Keith Peters

• ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook : Solutions for Adobe Flash Platform and Adobe Flex Application Developers by Joey Lott, Keith Peters, Darron Schal

• Advanced ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns by Joey Lott, Danny Patterson

ActionScript 2

• Object-Oriented Actionscript for Flash 8 by Peter Elst, Todd Yard, Sas Jacobs (With)

Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)

• Adobe AIR in Action by Joseph Lott, Kathryn Rotondo, Samuel Ahn

Flex

• Flex Solutions : Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and 3 Developers by Marco Casario
• Flex 3 Cookbook : The Adobe Developer Library Guide for Rich Internet Application Developers by Joshua Noble, Todd Anderson, Joey Lott, Chafic Kazoun, Abey George

General Programming

Design Patterns

• Head First Design Patterns by Eric Freeman, Bert Bates, Elisabeth Freeman, Kathy Sierra (With)

Algorithms

• Beginning Algorithms by Simon Harris, James Ross

Application Design

• Beautiful Code : Leading Programmers Explain How They Think by Greg Wilson (Editor) , Andy Oram (Editor)