ActionScript 3.0 Basics for Designers Class
This class can be used with any current version of Flash: (CS5, CS4 or CS3)
This class is for existing Flash designers who want to incorporate user interactivity in their Flash web site or Flash developers who have not made the switch from earlier versions of ActionScript.
Currently ActionScript 3.0 is the internal programming language of Flash, Flex and Adobe AIR. This object oriented language is more adherent to the ECMA-262 standard which many other languages (i.e. JavaScript) follow.
Students will learn the basics of the core language of ActionScript 3.0, how it is used within the timeline, interact with objects (movieclips) on the stage and library, develop simple animations with just ActionScript and understand the importance and how to create preloaders for your movies.
The class is only $25 and students can use either Adobe Flash CS5, CS4 or even CS3.
Topics covered:
Week 1: Trace statement, comments, variables, loops, functions and object basics.
Week 2: Manipulating movie clip properties
Week 3: Events: overview, targeting, propagating, timeline control methods
Week 4: More events: frame and keyboard events; timer events
Week 5: Loading external assets (images and movies); Display list explained
Week 6: Working with preloaders and sound
To give you an idea of how each lesson looks, here is the first lesson (.pdf).
Materials for Class
All the course materials for the class are sent via email as attachments within 48 hours of payment. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
I was still using ActionScript 2 and signed up for this class thinking I’d better stop avoiding AS3 and find out how to use it. The class was a great overview with helpful lessons and made me realize how much the language had changed. Frank was generous in posting some of his own code; it helps to see different approaches. I’m really glad I took the course, it was a real bargain.
Hi Robin,
Glad you liked my class, hope you were able to convert all your AS 2.0 scripts over, if you have any trouble let me know.
It covered the whole basics of Actionscript 3. I was already a bit familiar to AS3, but this course learned me more than I expected. And in a very concise & structured way!
Thanks Ed!
Love the class, instructions and dialog were very easy to understand and follow with plenty of examples to illustrate what he was talking about and in each example, the steps were fully explained.
No surprises in the code leaving you wondering where did that come from.
Thanks
Thanks Cheryl