Quote Originally Posted by mr_malee
you speak gibberish... sleep my child, there is a long journey ahead of thee
Depends on how good his knowledge on object oriented programming is. If you know that, learning as3 isn't that difficult. Especially if you have some experience with c# or java.
If you don't understand what a class or object is, or what inheritance is, then yeah, it'll take a while to get used to everything.