ActionScript

ActionScript 3.0 is a powerful, object-oriented programming language that signifies an important step in the evolution of the capabilities of the Flash Player runtime. The motivation driving ActionScript 3.0 is to create a language ideally suited for rapidly building rich Internet applications, which have become an essential part of the web experience.

Earlier versions of ActionScript offered the power and flexibility required for creating truly engaging online experiences. ActionScript 3.0 now further advances the language, providing superb performance and ease of development to facilitate highly complex applications, large datasets, and object-oriented, reusable code bases. With ActionScript 3.0, developers can achieve excellent productivity and performance with content and applications that target Flash Player.

Who should attend?

Flash designers who want explore a new area of Flash. Developers who have yet to approach Flash and wish to start from the most familiar point of view. People with a passion for logic and math, and want to start a new career.

Requirements

It is important to be able to understand coding languages. Prior knowledge of either HTML or Javascript can simplify the learning process. Best would be to have already took our Action Script 3.0 for beginners [B-AS-104] Level 1

0. Creating an ActionScript Project (Tools you need)

1. ActionScript 3 Language Basics (6 hours)

1.1 Variables, Constants, Operators and Expressions
1.2 Loops, Conditions and Error handling
1.3 Functions
1.4 Arrays and Dictionaries
1.5 Classes and Packages
1.6 Events

2. Display List (8 hours)

2.1 Basic visual classes
2.2 Keyboard and mouse interaction
2.3 Basic animation and Tweens
2.4 Creating custom visual classes
2.5 Drawing and Masking
2.6 Bitmaps
2.7 Text
2.8 Filters and Transforms

3 Utility classes (2 hours)

3.1 Dates and Times
3.2 XML

4 Communication Between Flash and the Browser

5 Network (3 hours)

5.1 Saving and Loading data and assets
5.2 Streams and Sockets
5.3 Security

6. Sound, Video and Camera

7 Printing, Accessibility, Clipboard and other utilities
8 ActionScript Libraries for AIR applications

Duration

3 days, 8 hours per day, from 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM (including lunch break)
or
6 evening sessions of 3 hours, from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Price

The cost of this course is $ 1,200 net. Discounts are applied starting from groups of 4 persons and more.

*The course duration will be shorten to 2 days or 4 evening sessions only, when a class has 3 or less than 3 students.
*The course will be conducted with a minimum of 3 students.

Get much more from your Flash!

ActionScript 3.0 is a very powerful, object-oriented programming language that signifies an important step in the evolution of the capabilities of the Flash Player runtime. The motivation driving ActionScript 3.0 is to create a language ideally suited for rapidly building rich Internet applications, which have become an essential part of the web experience.

Earlier versions of ActionScript offered the power and flexibility required for creating truly engaging online experiences. ActionScript 3.0 now further advances the language, providing superb performance and ease of development to facilitate highly complex applications, large datasets, and object-oriented, reusable code bases. With ActionScript 3.0, developers can achieve excellent productivity and performance with content and applications that target Flash Player.

Who should attend?

Users already familiar with coding, who have already taken the course ActionScript 3.0 - Foundation of Excellence, or have at least 2 years of experience in ActionScript.

1 Advanced Language Topics

1.1 Classes, inheritance, interfaces, overriding
1.2 Functions revisited
1.4 Dynamic objects revisited, introspection
1.5 Garbage Collection
1.6 Namespaces

2 Animation

2.1 Basic animation in ActionScript, Tween engines
2.3 Basic physics: velocity,acceleration, boundaries, friction
2.4 Advanced physics: easing, springing, collision detection, kinematics

3 3D Animation

3.1 Basic 3D animation, Introducing 3d libraries (Papervision3d, Away3D)
3.2 Scene, Objects, Materials
3.3 Camera, Lights, Shaders
3.4 Effects, Collada
5 Design patterns
4 New in Flash Player 10

Duration

2 days, 8 hours per day, from 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM (including lunch break)
or
4 evening sessions of 3 hours, from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Price

The cost of this course is $950 nett. Discounts are applied starting from groups of 4 persons and more.

Get the best from your Flash!

ActionScript 3.0 is a powerful, object-oriented programming language that signifies an important step in the evolution of the capabilities of the Flash Player runtime. The motivation driving ActionScript 3.0 is to create a language ideally suited for rapidly building rich Internet applications, which have become an essential part of the web experience.

Earlier versions of ActionScript offered the power and flexibility required for creating truly engaging online experiences. ActionScript 3.0 now further advances the language, providing superb performance and ease of development to facilitate highly complex applications, large datasets, and object-oriented, reusable code bases. With ActionScript 3.0, developers can achieve excellent productivity and performance with content and applications that target Flash Player.

Who should attend?

Flash designers who want explore a new area of Flash. Developers who have yet to approach Flash and wish to start from the most familiar point of view. People with a passion for logic and math, and want to start a new career.

3 DAYS

0. Creating an ActionScript Project (Tools you need)

1. ActionScript 3 Language Basics

1.1 Variables, Constants, Operators and Expressions
1.2 Loops, Conditions and Error handling
1.3 Functions
1.4 Arrays and Dictionaries
1.5 Classes and Packages
1.6 Events

2. Display List

2.1 Basic visual classes
2.2 Keyboard and mouse interaction
2.3 Basic animation and Tweens
2.4 Creating custom visual classes
2.5 Drawing and Masking
2.6 Bitmaps
2.7 Text
2.8 Filters and Transforms

3 Saving and Loading data and assets

Duration

3 days, 8 hours per day, from 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM (including lunch break)
or
6 evening sessions of 3 hours, from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Price

The cost of this course is $ 950 nett. Discounts are applied starting from groups of 4 persons and more.

*The course duration will be shorten to 2 days or 4 evening sessions only, when a class has 3students only.
*The course will be conducted with a minimum of 3 students.