Flash and ActionScript 3 - Fundamentals

- Choosing your development environment

- Manipulating movieclip properties

- ActionScript Basics

Variables and data types

Conditionals

Loops

Arrays

- Operators and Expressions

- Using Functions

Properties, methods and events

- Manipulating movieclip properties

- Mouse interaction events

- Using the main Event loop

- Using timers

The display list

- Adding and removing elements on the screen

- Managing object names

- Changing display hierarchy

- Building a dynamic navigation bar

Timeline control

- Playhead movement

- Working with frames

- Building a simple timeline based website

Object oriented programming

- Classes

- Inheritance

- Composition

- Encapsulation

- Navigation bar OOP approach

Motion

- Basic movement

- Geometry and trigonometry

- Building a particle systems

- Programmatic tweening with the TweenLite library

Drawing with vectors

- The graphics class

Drawing with pixels

- Bitmap manipulation with the Bitmapdata class

- Blend modes

- Filters

Text

- Creating text fields

- Formatting text

- Formatting text with html and css

- Loading external html and css files

Sound

- Actionscript sound architecture

- Playing internal and external sounds

- Changing sound volume and panning

- Read ID3 data from MP3 files

- Working with the microphone

- Visualizing Sound Data

Video

- Encoding

- Full screen video

- Captions

Loading assets

- Loading external images

- Loading external swf files

XML and E4X

- Understanding XML structure

- Creating an XML object

- Reading XML

- Writing XML

- Loading and parsing external XML files

- Building an XML based website

Connecting to a backend

- Set up amfPHP to communicate with a PHP server

- Building a contact manager application