It's been over two years now since I was last active here. (Back then the site refused to let me stay logged in for more than two pages)
I see plenty of great work going on, as always, with some using AS2 and others trying their hands at AS3.
Honestly, I would like to think of AS2 being a little more designer friendly, but I'm sure that many programmers will agree with me that it's a lot more bad than good.
At the same time, AS3 brings it closer to Java or C#, making it significantly harder for the average joe to pick up.
(There have been some pretty lousy reasons given for using AS3 over AS2 as seen in some of the comments around, though it's really a design issue.)
There are plenty of tutorial sites around. But I figure since I'm "back" for now, might as well put up some stuff of my own to help those with absolutely zero base at AS3.
TL;DR: Gonna post small mini tutorials in this thread and answer questions when asked.
Links:
Nothing for now. I will have something really simple about animated buttons up within the next two days.
It will cover the proper behaviour of buttons, why Movieclip over Button,
Not-mine-but-useful Links:
Tutorial Collaboration for AS2 (Covers lots of ActionScript 2 things)
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/344206
Note:
Some of you might think I'm wasting time. My time to waste, I guess?
It's taking a bit longer than I expected since I realised there is actually lots of things to cover if I want to go in depth.
So I'm cutting out the non-essential parts and will put them into separate tutorials at a later time if explanation is required.