This is the companion site for "Object Oriented Programming with ActionScript" from New Riders Press by Branden Hall and Samuel Wan with contributions by Andreas Heim and Nigel Pegg.

This book is not about quick fixes or cool techniques (though the reader will learn quite a few). Instead, the book teaches it's readers object oriented programming pricipals and how to apply those principals to ActionScript in Flash MX.

The name of this site comes from the codename of the book. "Wheelmaker" referred to the goal of the book - to teach it's readers how to write well designed Macromedia Flash based applications by applying the well worn lessons of computer science. That is, to help it's readers from having to "reinvent the wheel" and making them "wheelmakers" instead.

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