What are the main difference between flash and actionscript?

Question

If I was going to learn one of these (flash or actionscript) from scratch, which one should I learn first, which one is easier/harder? Should I learn one w/o the other ?

Answer 1

Flash and ActionScript are not two different things. Flash is an authoring environment for creating rich, interactive, animated web sites and applications. ActionScript is the programming language used in Flash to actually describe and create that interactivity. It is possible to do a little bit of basic Flash without ActionScript (some simple animating) but not possible to learn or use ActionScript without Flash.