Flash Level III – Dec 18th – Feb 5th

Flash Level III (Dec 18th – Feb 5): Thursday Nights 5:45pm -8:45pm
No class on Dec 27th or Jan 1st

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WEEK 1: December 18

Handouts:
Syllabus
ActionScript Basics Cheat Sheet
MovieClip and TextField Methods and Properties Cheat Sheet

Book:  Learning ActionScript 3: A Beginner’s Guide
Book Web Site:  http://www.learningactionscript3.com/
Book Example Files:  http://www.learningactionscript3.com/downloads/

Snow file from class:  ZIP

Week 1: Homework
Review Book chapters 2 & 3, and work through Chapter 3 sample files.

WEEK 2: January 8th

Quiz: Chapters 2 & 3         Quiz Answers: PDF

Sample files:
Sample of a Document Class (extending MovieClip) LINK ZIP
Display Object Types ZIP
Custom Event ZIP
Basic Menu and Page (using Events) ZIP

Homework: Read Chapters 6 & 7 in the book.  (probably another quiz next week).

WEEK 3: January 15th

Tweener Library: [ Home page ] [ Docs ]  [Download Tweener AS3 ver 1.31.74 ]
Download In-class Examples [ LINK ]
Download Sample Examples [ LINK ]

Week 4: January 22nd

Cheat Sheet for Drag-n-Drop, Tweener, Filters, and Hit Test [ PDF ]
Sample files for Drag-n-Drop, Hit Test, Filters, and Tweener [ LINK ]

Week 5:  January 28th

Topics:  Loading external XML, audio, images, swfs, and communicating with a server using URLLoader

Cheat Sheet for Loading XML, Images/SWFs, Audio and Basic Server Communication [ LINK ]
Example Files:  [ ZIP ]