It's time to tackle, tangle, and tango with the concept of variables. You'll see how you can use variables to add numbers and strings, or perform basic mathematical operations more efficiently. We finish with an overview of primitive values - and not the kind painted on cave walls!.

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Overview

Welcome to the developer basics, Coding Basics Part 2! Obviously at this point you're familiar with the mathematical part of Flash: the numbers, variables and basic math. If you're not already familiar with the Flash environment, you'd best revisit Coding basics Part 1it's vital that you understand the concepts featured in Coding basics Part 1! That course starts our exploration of learning how to code in Flash. You are strongly encouraged to take the Coding Basics Part 1 exam before taking this course. If you don't pass it, you need to take that course before diving into this one.

We are going to discuss brackets, operators , primitive variables - a quick intro. The introduction to brackets includes how to use them effectively as they are an integral part of Flash. I'll also share some little secrets (02 Tips) with you which will definitely make your life easier when coding or dealing with errors.

In this hour we%u2019ll look into:

• What Opens Must Close - Brackets and their usage plus one of my favorite shortcuts. This is a quick detour - I will let you in on a major 02 Tip! It's my favorite shortcut in the course and will help you manage the many brackets you'll come across in your work.
• Addition - The basics of addition for numbers and strings. In this class we explore how to add strings together (weird as it sounds) and how to add numbers together. If you think that isn't enough we'll even look at error 1084 and figure out how to avoid it!
• Mixing strings and numbers and their exceptions - we'll look into how to manage a mixture of string and numbers. When working with numbers and strings, it's important that we prevent Flash from automatically converting data so you'll not be automatically confused. To keep things simple, it's best to manage conversions on your own: we'll cover this to see why and how.
• Looking into Casting : Conversion of Data type - How do we take a string and tell Flash that we actually want it to be a number? The answer would be a new function. This function type is called Casting (a term we'll revisit in the future.)

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• The Developer basics 1 - a 12 hour training series. We are currently in the second hour of the Developer Basics, a step-by-step guide to code development.
• Starting point - the first title in developer basics 1. This FREE Flash tutorial is the perfect starting point for those of you that have never used Flash before.
• Operators - Learning how to code with operators, an essential key to becoming a developer. In this hour we'll explore the ins and outs of operators.
• Conditions - Learn the basics of the %u201Cif statement.%u201D Conditionals enable our code to branch (execute one chunk of code or another) based on the result of logical conditions.
• Conditions 2 - Learn to code with the %u201Cswitch%u201D statement. Switches are the "if" statement's little sister. They're not used as much as "if" statements, but they're very important building blocks.

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