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I know the REALLY basic stuff like stop(); and that kind of stuff. I want to become serious about programming and I am going to buy a book on it.

I don't really understand what you want, but I can try to help anyway.  If you want to make an object move with the arrow keys, just use code snippets (with Flash CS5) and change the variable names and you might fool your teacher.  The real answer is this:

This is the code (Actionscript 3.0): wrote:

import flash.events.KeyboardEvent;

stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, keyPressed);

function keyPressed(evt:KeyboardEvent):void
{
    switch(evt.keyCode)
    {
       
        case Keyboard.UP :
        //Your code goes here
        /*Example:*/trace("You pressed the UP key")
        break;//the break; is very important
       
        case Keyboard.RIGHT :
        //Your code goes here
        /*Example:*/trace("You pressed the RIGHT arrow key")
        break;//the break; is very important
       
        case Keyboard.DOWN :
        //Your code goes here
        /*Example:*/trace("You pressed the DOWN arrow key")
        break;//the break; is very important
       
        case Keyboard.LEFT  /going clockwise
        //Your code goes here
        /*Example*/trace("You pressed the LEFT arrow key")
        break;//the break; is very important
    }
}

If you have access to Code Hinting you don't have to write the import flash.events.KeyboardEvents part.  Hope this helps you cheat on your homework!

Thank you

My goal is to finish like 5 of those tutorials a day.