PRO608A summer2010

Instructor

Last Name	First Name	Seneca Username	Email	Blog Url
Clark	Simon	simon.clark	simon@zebraspot.com	Twitter

Students

Last Name	First Name	Seneca Username	PRO608a Matrix website	Email	Blog Url	IRC Nick
Gorscak	Ljubomir	gljubomir	matrix/~gljubomir	ljubomir.gorscak@gmail.com	Blogspot	ljubo
Granovsky	Andriy	aagranovsky		andregranovsky@gmail.com	-	param
Samimi	Ali	asamimi	Ali	ali.samimi@gmail.com	The Door	asa_
Choephel	Thupten	tchoephel	Thupten	thupten1234@gmail.com	Thupten's Blog	thupten
Khai Huynh	Khai	nkhuynh1	Khai's class note	kyle205@gmail.com	Khai Huynh's Blog	nkhuynh1
Butnaru	Stefan	sbutnaru	testing	stefanbutnaru@rogers.com	N/A	N/A
Joshua	Byer	jbyer	Joshua	jbyer@learn.senecac.on.ca	none	none
Zhang	Jia	jzhang11	Jia	jzhang11@learn.senecac.on.ca	none	none
Bagasrawala	Rashida	rbagasrawala	Rashida	rbagasrawala@learn.senecac.on.ca	none	none
Grewal	Harman	hgrewal3		hgrewal3@learn.senecac.on.ca	none	none
Nasir	Arsalan	anasir4		anasir4@learn.senecac.on.ca	none	none
Novichikhin	Konstantin	knovichikhi		knovichikhi@learn.senecac.on.ca	Blog Link	knovichikhin
Thanh	Dao	tdao3	Project	tdao3@learn.senecac.on.ca	none	none
Qing	Luo	qluo5		qluo5@learn.senecac.on.ca	N/A	N/A
Kanakarayar	Nalini	nkanakarayar@learn.senecac.on.ca	Project	none	none

Links

Course documents

Topics

Week 8

Class 1 class1.zip

• Basic Flash usage
• creating a document
• basic drawing
• defining actions in the timeline

• working with symbols

Class 2 class2.zip

• specifying a document class
• external ActionScript code
• creating classed library items
• creating a Global Static class for persistent storage and interdocument communication
• embedding in a webpage with swfobject2.2
• communication with javascript

Week 9

Class 3 class3.zip

• working with event listeners

• iterating over an object or array

• passing function references as parameters

• working with the Caurina tweener class.

Class 4 class4.zip

• using a swf as a navigation menu

• loading ajax content using jQuery

• Loading one flash movie into another

Week 10

Class 5 PRO608a Summer - Class Project 1

Work alone or in pairs.

Create a flash project that runs within a browser. It can be navigation, a game of some sort, interactive art, something that takes advantage of the graphic or interactive nature of flash.

Some ideas of elements to include are:

• Collision Detection
• Keyboard interaction
• Mouse Following
• Puzzle logic
• Constrained dragging
• physics engine
• Server side code interaction
• XML or JSON driven content

Include a short explanation of what you are trying to achieve with your project, and what points of interest can be found in your code.

Class 6 class6.zip

Marking scheme for Class Project 1

40% - complexity of attempted functionality

30% - Functionality of code (does it work?)

10% - Appropriate use of flash abilities

20% - Elegance of code

Projects

TBA