Wow! This is definitely not for the faint of heart!
It's been extremely tough getting through this tutorial! Todd is getting into the nitty gritty functions of Action Script and it's been tough to follow! Chapter's 3, 4 and 5 were a bear! But I'm trying to hang on!
So far I've learned about variables, arrays, vectors, functions, events and event listeners, parent, child and grandchild objects, classes and packages. It's all vaguely familiar back from my computer science 1 class in my undergraduate degree, which I wonder what grade I got for that class? Todd does a pretty good job at explaining things but sometimes I get lost in the language and have to rewind (Not that it's him). It would be helpful to me if sometimes he would demonstrate the results first and then go back and explain how he got there. That way I could recognize why each step is used instead of trying to imagine what each one is for and then getting lost. I do like how he intentionally makes mistakes in his coding so that he can go back and correct it so that you can avoid doing the same thing.
Anyway, chapter 6 was finally one that had real practical results and thus to me was more enjoyable to watch. Chapter 6 dealt with creating a simple drag and drop educational game. It appears that it's something that I might be able to handle? In fact, I think I may stop the tutorial process here and see if I can create something similar. Wish me luck! :-)
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