Neither the cd or the book provides any tutorials explaining how to use the program from scratch. It ONLY provides samples, and is not very clear on how to recreate them. I reached page 70 without learning a thing about the program. I am a professional multimedia designer, in the business for 10 years, and found this to be one of the most unhelpful books on a computer program. This is the only time that a Visual Quickstart book has failed to help me. Visual Quickstart's book on Flash is a very good choice.