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books

Adobe. ActionScript 3.0 Language and Components Reference. Online Documentation of the adobe, air, fl, and flash packages.

Adobe. ActionScript 3.0 API flash.display package diagram. excerpt from http://flexonblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/as3api_01.pdf.

Adobe. Flex 3.0 Language Reference. Online Documentation of the air, flash, and mx packages.

Colin Moock. Essential ActionScript 3.0. O'Reilly (June 2007). ISBN 0-596-52694-6.

John Maeda; Paola Antonelli. Design By Numbers. The MIT Press, 2001. ISBN 0-262-63244-6

Joey Lott; Darron Schall; Keith Peters. ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook. O'Reilly (October, 2006). ISBN 0-596-52695-4.

utilities

audacity ⊚
colorpicker ⊚
flash key code display [swf] [fla]
mxmlc, fcsh (Flex 3 SDK) ⊚
pca homework template ⊚ [example]
   (save to C:\Documents and Settings\<you>\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Flash CS3\en\Configuration\HTML)
swfobject ⊚

text editors

 Flash IDE (built-in text editor)
SE|PY actionscript editor ⊚
   alternate css styles for code exported from SE|PY ⊚

Apex Text ⊚
Cream ⊚
Editra ⊚
jEdit ⊚
Komodo Edit ⊚
SciTE ⊚

mac only

Smultron ⊚
Textmate ⊚
Text Wrangler ⊚

win only

FlashDevelop ⊚
Notepad++ ⊚
Programmer's Notepad ⊚
PSPad ⊚