Dan sez... > I would have agreed until the last two revs. I am not personally > acquainted with the situation, but several friends of mine who teach > and study multimedia development at our local university have > complained bitterly to me in the past year about how MM has made > development in Flash all but inaccessible to folks who don't grok > scripting. I'm not sure how they've managed to do this -- or if it's > just a perception -- but it's hurt them in this university curriculum.
Chipp & Dan, FWIW, I concur. IDT (Instructional Design & Technology) degree programs, from what I know, have relied heavily on MM programs (first Director, then increasingly Flash on presumption of Director's imploding doom). >From what I have read and observed, many of these programs initially used Hypercard but shifted to Director & Flash to accomodate PC-using students (ultimately the clear majority). Long before I obtained such a degree, I recall reading discussions (largely from the HC list) and initiated some private ones on the subject, and they all supported what you have said, namely, that when Hypercard was the authoring software used, these individuals in the degree programs were able to learn it suffficiently to continue using it beyond the requirements of their degree program (that is to say, voluntarily). However, I have yet to meet a single individual who has done likewise with Director or Flash. Not one. Including me. The learning curve for those two products is markedly steeper: take a look at your 'average' _Director for Dummies_ sort of book and you'll see how the 'inventive user' is catastrophically-adrift in a sea of C-like dot syntax that goes on forever and is incomprehensible (add to that the, until previously, foreign concept of a timeline-based interface for this audience); Flash's ActionScript (or whatever it's called these days) isn't a whole lot different, being based, I think, heavily on JavaScript meant to look more like a Java/C-lite than a 'real' x-Talk. They are not inherently 'inventive user-friendly'. And, hence, you end up with the graduates of such degree programs who go on to teach it themselves not being very good teachers of it. And thus the cycle continues. > OTOH, that group is now investigating Rev, so all is not lost! --I only wish CSUF were one of them... :-( Judy _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
