Try to stay away from purchasing this book. The tutorials provided go along and skip over vital steps in the process of completing the tutorial, as if you are supposed to already know the in between steps. Me being a beginner with Flash, skipping over these steps in most of the tutorials left me sitting and wondering what I had missed. But going back and reading, I never did skip over anything... there were just steps missing in the text! Very Frustrating!! And the book's chapters are not ordered in the way that I would have like to have seen them. By the first few chapters, you are already doing action scripting. Not good if you're just starting with Flash.