Introduction to ActionScript 3.0

Event ID: L10281
Info: Jul 10 • Fri • 9:00am-4:00pm • 1 mtg • UHM Sakamaki C104, Manoa MultiMedia Lab • $135
With: Rich Shupe

Flash's greatest potential can only be achieved through scripting, and even a competent designer needs to know how to demonstrate simple prototypes of new work. This full-day intensive introduces you to the core language fundamentals, makes extensive use of the new display list and event model, and demonstrates some key migration issues from prior versions of ActionScript. More than anything else, this class builds your programming skills and frees you from the Timeline. Rather than walking away knowing how to cobble together a few widgets, you learn enough to write your own scripts from scratch.

Level: Beginner. Day 1 of the workshop, Introduction to Flash CS4, or equivalent is required.

Rich Shupe is the founder and president of FMA, a full-service multimedia development company and training facility in New York City. Shupe teaches a variety of digital technologies, lecturing on these topics at Macworld, FlashForward, and other national and international events. He is also a professor at New York's School of Visual Arts teaching in the master's program. As a technical writer, Shupe is a regular columnist at DevX.com and the author of multiple books, including Flash 8: Projects for Learning Animation and Interactivity (O'Reilly), Flash CS3 Essential Training (Lynda.com/PeachPit), and the soon to be released Learning ActionScript 3.0 (O'Reilly). FMA develops CDs and websites for clients including McGraw-Hill, Phillips, 20th Century Fox, and Nickelodeon, and trains digital media professionals in Flash, Processing, JavaScript (DHTML/AJAX), HTML, XML, and more. Check out his website at www.fmaonline.com.