This workshop is intended for Flash developers who have the basic skill set introduced in Flash: The Basics and Flash: Interactivity Basics and are ready to take the next step. ActionScript 3.0 is the most recent iteration of the ActionScript language and is incorporated into Flash CS3. ActionScript is the basis of creating interactivity in Flash and a strong foundation in the basics of the language is necessary to create useful Flash applications.

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Participants will:

• learn how to use the Actions panel
• learn the basics of object-oriented programming in ActionScript 3.0
• learn how to comment code
• create and use variables
• understand the differences between events and actions
• script buttons
• script simple animation
• understand data types, operators, conditionals and loops

The following workshops are suggested prerequisites to this workshop:

• Flash CS4: Interactivity Basics

Participants should already be able to:

• work in the Flash interface
• create original graphic content using Flash drawing tools
• animate graphics by applying tweens, frame-by-frame and nested animations
• work with the flash library
• create both linear and non-linear movies
• create and deploy symbols and instances