If you are looking to improve your application development skills,
invest in this book.
I have been heavily involved in ActionScript for the last 6 years and
programming for more than 30.
This showed me a lot of really useful ways to improve the way
applications are constructed. Much more important that new API calls. It
gives you a new way to think about application problems.
BTW, stay away from timeline ActionScript. It makes for really poor
programs that are hard to debug and hard to maintain. 1 frame is enough.
Ron
http://books.google.ca/books?id=LjJcCnNf92kC&dq=head+first+design+patterns&psp=1
Andy Herrman wrote:
> Weird, my e-mails keep bouncing for this thread. Let's try again:
>
> Actionscripting knowledge is about all I do have. I've been working
> on a fairly complex Flash application for the past 6 months or so (our
> Flash developer quit and it landed on me), so I've picked up a lot of
> the programming stuff, but the design stuff like timeline and such I
> don't really know much about.
>
> One other thing I forgot to mention is that I'm also looking at
> possibly doing FMS training. However, the FMS application development
> training courses all have prereqs of the FMS Video course, but I'm not
> doing any Video related stuff with FMS so that course wouldn't really
> be relevant, though I'm worried that I might have trouble with the FMS
> course if I didn't take it. Any suggestions there?
>
> -Andy
>
> On 3/8/07, Kevin Bowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I really don't think you need to worry too much about this. A
>> someone who
>> is actually a trainer for these courses I'd say that if you can do
very
>> basic things such as converting items to a symbol, you know a bit
>> about the
>> timeline, frame labels, etc. you'll be absolutely fine on this
>> course. The
>> important thing is that you would need to have some basic action
>> scripting
>> knowledge. Have a look at the Flash 8 Actionscript course outline,
>> if you
>> know that stuff, sign up for the Advanced Design course.
>>
>> Kev
>>
>> Kevin Bowers
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy
>> Herrman
>> Sent: 08 March 2007 13:44
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [Flashcoders] Flash training suggestions
>>
>> Resending as this bounced the first time I tried (so if you already
>> saw this, sorry!):
>>
>> I'm looking for some suggestions on Flash training classes. My Flash
>> devel knowledge is in a somewhat interesting state in that I know the
>> basics and some advanced parts of AS2 programming, but don't really
>> know much at all about using Flash itself (timeline, creating UI
>> objects in the FLA, etc).
>>
>> I've found a few training courses that I could go to, but the ones
>> that look useful to me (the more advanced programming ones) have
>> prereqs of the simpler classes, where most of the material is stuff I
>> already know, with just a few things that I don't.
>>
>> For instance, this class:
>> http://www.trainsimple.com/courses/advanceddesign.html
>> has a lot of things I'd like to learn (Tween, extending MovieClip)
but
>> has prereqs requiring both basic AS knowledge which I have and basic
>> Flash design stuff ("Rich Content Creation), which I don't have. I
>> don't know if I'd be able to get the company to have me take more
than
>> one training course in the near term, and for what I'm doing the
>> advanced class would be much more useful, but I'm not sure if I would
>> have trouble in it due to not knowing the design stuff.
>>
>> Has anyone here been in a similar situation and found training that
>> was helpful without duplicating a lot of what you already knew? Does
>> anyone have any suggestions on training courses that would be
good, or
>> even just training companies that people have found to be good?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -Andy
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