Class #9 - Thursday, May 22nd, 2008


  1. Example from today's lab class, that uses the MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER event. Chapter 4 of BGP book.

  2. Email from this afternoon: What to read, etc.

  3. Assignment one: Yesterday's BGP Chapter 3 Project Student Quiz pages.

  4. arRAYcing rectangles: Race of the Four Rectangles without using Arrays and with using Arrays.

    GROUP EXERCISE today to move them back to their starting blocks.

  5. We played with the ideas from Exercise 4.7 Pages 85-88 of your textbook (Chapter 4 - Types of Animation). We downloaded Exercise4_7.fla and looked at the various Symbols that made it up during today's lab class. Play around with this file. Try to do the page 86-87 exercise on your own.
  6. I demonstrated the Chapter 5 game: Exercise5_3.fla - Tank versus Enemy Ships today in class. You also received a handout of all the ActionScript code for the final version of that example game: Exercise5_3.fla, which we will be discussing and playing with portions of during several classes.

    PLEASE READ AND REREAD CHAPTER 5. Try things. Get familiar with the game. Look at the program from your CD or from my web site. All of the Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 Examples are in the lab folder.

  7. Read Chapter 7: Loops and Arrays in Flash: Simple Simon Game - only these 3 pages for now. 141-143.
         What are Loops? ........................... 141
            for Loops .............................. 142
            while Loops ............................ 142
            do while Loops ......................... 143