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    • Advanced ActionScript Education
      Thread posted Jul 01 by Michael Krotscheck
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      Title:
      Advanced ActionScript Education
      Content:

      There's been a lot of discussion at the happy hours about the need for some good solid ActionScript 3 education here in Columbus. Not just introductory classes, but a meaty set of topics that skip the timeline altogether.  After talking with the people at Quick solutions last night, it seems we might have a space we can use as a classroom for an extended series, but first I'd like to get a feel of what people want to learn. Here's an list off the top of my head of what people have mentioned, please feel free to add to it. Note these are not Flash/Flex specific.

      Fundamentals

      • Applied Object Oriented Programming (Classes, packages, namespaces, polymorphism, etc)
      • Design Patterns- Singleton, Factory, Observer, Proxy, Command, etc.
      • MVC Applications & Frameworks.
      • Data & Consuming Services
      • AIR based classes: Files, Binary Objects, Window management
      • Debugging tools

      Advanced topics

      • Documentation
      • Ant, Subversion, Unit Testing
      • Project Structure
      • Cairngorm and/or PureMVC
      • Streaming Media (redux)
      • Motion Detection & Augmented Reality
      • Animating without the Timeline / Tweening libraries

      Is there anything else you guys want to see?

    Comments

    • Perfect! Great idea. Those are all topics of interest... minus Cairngorm ; )