actionscript 3 tutorial again?
Many of use throughout the years go online and use actionscript 3 tutorials to get something done. It's great when you know exactly what you want and sometimes you can even find an article that would give you exactly what you need to solve a problem. This isn't a bad thing but it leaves you with a huge gap in understanding the core concepts of code by understanding them you can understand these tutorials better and actually change them wouldn't that be great? We really believe in our content and in your capabilities to become a great developer(if your not one already ;) - wink wink) so we have opened up a full hour of our training in this session to be 100% free so you can try us out and see how easy it is to progress and learn actionscript 3 on our site.
Another important note. Although we are very very detailed sometimes you don't really want so much details you might have some experience and just want to strengthen your weaker subjects. to solve that problem we recommend you first take an exam. each course has an exam if your overall score is above 80% you don't really need that course taken again but just in case we will at the end of the exam enable you to filter out the videos you know so you can then watch only titles where you had a wrong answer. This feature is usually only available to our paying members but if you are a subscriber once in a while we give out free exams so its worth being a member even if you never become a full featured one.
Why learn ActionScript? Isn't flash Dead?
Let's get real here. It definitely looks dead in the public view and the powers at Adobe aren't really focused on building up the Flash brand. i could only assume its because its not "sexy" any more when you compare it to HTML5. Only problem with HTML5 is that its extremely hard to build a real solid understanding as there are many features missing for a developer such as hints and errors that help you while you are learning to become a developer. Now after saying flash is dead lets see why its not really dead the Adobians are focusing a lot of energy and money into making and strengthening flash(AKA AIR) as the mobile developer language, gaming solution and 3d engine of the future of the web. So although we probably are not going to create video players and banners in flash in the future we are going to use it for more advanced features (the ones that usually cost more to the client to build -- wink wink...).
Now you might be thinking... "Hey there guy behinds this text that i don't know his name why would i learn flash if i can learn html5 and be cool.. i want to be cool..."... mmm... very good point... i want to be cool as well... so how do we solve this problem of wanting to be cool but still learning that things that will make us better... so my best solution to that is our extra classes that focus on html5 and javascript to show you how similar the languages are and in many ways everything you learn in these titles could then be ported over in to html5/Javascript and we will show you how in our 02Hero titles.
What will i get out of the developer basics
You won't be cool well unless you are cool already .. just got to be honest here!. What you will be is smarter that is almost a fact smarter in a way that will make any programing language less foreign and more inviting. Many people when they see code there blood pressure rises they mumble hate words at the screen or just give up while trying to understand another getting start with actionscript 3 tutorial, losing sleep as clients badger them for an update. you don't need to be that guy any more(if your not him then ignore that line) you can actually understand why things work the way they do making you smarter and making it easier for you to communicate with your client and explain them things(they usually really like it) so even if you are not planing to be the lead developer knowing this skills that you will developer in the next few hours will make it a breeze to understand your developer and to actually read and play with there code(or if you are the developer you will have the tools to really grasp the basic stuff that will then empower you as you move on to other advanced topics on our site).
- Starting Point - the first thing we will do is explore the interface of Flash CS(CS4...CS5.5) in our first tutorial.
- Coding Basics 1 & Coding Basics 2 = the second and third actionscript 3 session overlap the first title and bleed into the 4th(to give you a bit more practice if you feel you need it if not please take the exam and skip the parts that are repetative).
- Operators, Conditionals - If & Conditionals - switch- And then we break into our first complex tutorial on operators and conditionals(They overlap a lot) so these 3 actionscript 3 titles are great to get you to understand how conditions really work and master the basics of any language.
- Functions - actionscript 3 Function tutorial will teach you not only about what functions are but how to work with them very critical to becoming a master developer.
- Objects & Array = Objects tutorial and Arrays tutorial are our next group of titles that break us into the world of complex data types. until now we worked with primitive variables and now we dig really deep into these two first complex data types.
- The Final Fortier Part 1 & The Final Fortier Part 2 = We kept the most fun part to the end with 2 titles on loops in flash one focused on getting to know how to work with actionscript loops while the other on more advanced actionscript features in looping.
Why shouldn't I use your competitors?
Well I'm not into bashing other sites as some of them are really great all i can do is talk about the value of mine. Our site is a small startup and its goal is to be a small startup. we don't have really any plans to take over the world or we would use marketing buzz and build a site that is best for all and gives little to all. instead our focus is razor sharp...(ouch that hurts) and detailed we really want our students to become masters in this trade and to do that we need to really teach and not focus on buzz so that's our agenda. Our teachers(aka mainly me ) is always available and always happy to talk to any student that wants or needs help, i actually really enjoy it as i love getting feedback and knowing that my work is need and used. although we have 1000's of students and 100's join every month i always have time for students as between us just about 1 out of every 500 would actually every email me so why not you be one of them as well and gain even more out of your training.
Ohhhh right i was going to talk about competitors a bit. most other sites will focus there attention at products that they can sell as a unit as most people will buy a book,video and never really watch it so the best money makers are titles that can attract users that will actually never complete the titles our mission is not that we give you over an hour of content as we don't want you to pay if you are not planing on being a real student we thrive out of helping our students grow and we want student that pick to join us and be part of our small start up to really enjoy and be part of it. every single student that interacts with our team has made an impact on our site from new training to changes in interfaces we love hearing from our students.
Ok got it.. I want in
Yay I didn't think it would be that easy ;) just kidding... Ok so its time to start learning if you have some experience coding then just join us pay the due and start taking exams when ever you have a score that isn't 100% you know you are ready to learn something know.. isn't' that fun instead of skimming through videos you can filter out hours o cf content. now if you are new to development or feel like you can use a better core understanding of the language you are in the right area of the site ideally you would want to take an exam before you watch a course as some times some things are intuitive so by taking an exam you can filter out things you will get on your own and at the same time not miss anything important. taking the exam first will give you a good understanding of what to think about while learning as well so we strongly encourage that. now if you didn't pay yet that's ok for that we have many free stuff on the site the first our for really starters is all free and all over there are many free stuff (i would check our YouTube channel as most of the free stuff are organized there and with hours of free great titles.