I breezed through chapter 1 because I’ve done a little Flash before and the chapter was simple Flash stuff and some basic ActionScript flow of control which is just like any number of languages I already know.

One thing that surprised me was that when I saved one of the ActionScript classes in my a directory I specified, I got a class not found in classpath error. Classpaths in ActionScript was not something I was expecting to run into. It was easy to specify, but just a little surprising.

The other surprise was how responsive Flash CS3 was. My PowerBook is almost 3 years old and when I first got it, I was trying to do some stuff with a version of Flash that was not really snappy. I figured, new version, more stuff, slower. But it really is pretty fast. Maybe it’ll slow down as I do more complex stuff, but I don’t remember the old version feeling this responsive at any time.