I think the tutorials are actually nice

http://bloo-apple.110mb.com/myCode7.h tml

In AS3, scale and alpha range from 0 to 1, so setting something's scale to 200 will make it enormous

"A while function requires if statements and I will show you how to program those later on. A do loop requires you to have an array"

This is a fairly odd way to phrase this... First off, all loops require a condition. A for loop is the same, it just requires additional information such as the counter variable and what to do with the counter variable upon each loop. So saying that while loops 'require if statements' isn't correct. Also, do loops do not require you to have an array. A do loop works exactly like a while loop, the only difference is the placement of the condition

while(false)
{
}

the preceeding loop will never run

do
{
}
while(false)

however this loop will run at least once, no matter what, because the condition is explicitly not checked until the end of the loop.