Flash ActionScript

(3 Days)

Description

Flash ActionScript is designed to teach experienced Flash designers the fundamentals of programming Flash Player content using the ActionScript programming language. The course is task-based, with students learning by doing.

Over the next 3 days, you will build an animated visual game in Flash, and learn core programming skills, terminology, and key aspects of the Flash Player along the way.

Along with thoroughly covering the fundamentals of programming in ActionScript, the course focuses on best practices, stressing the importance of readable, self-documenting, maintainable code.

Audience

This course is for people without prior programming skills that have Flash experience (or who have used it only for animation).

Outline

Course Introduction	Controlling Visual Objects With ActionScript
Using And Writing Functions	Using Text, Dates, Math, And Paths
Understanding And Handling Events	Managing Color, Sound, And Data With Classes
Making Decisions And Repeating Yourself	Animating With ActionScript