Welcome back to my blog EMDT Colleagues! Month 11 MAC!

This post will officially begin the new course, Media Asset Creation, for the Full Sail EMDT program.


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PE6_Flash Action Script 3.0_Drag and Drop Demo

So here is my try at the drag and drop.
So I successfully got the dragging down. But need to work on the drop! Will continue that, but ran out of time :-(
Here is a screenflow of what I got so far.
Thanks for watching.

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PE5_Flash Action Script 3.0

Here's my progress with Flash's Action Scipting:

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! :-)

PE4_Flash Action Script 3.0

I am fairly versed in basic animation and simple button and menu operations for building websites in flash, but I decided to be brave and explore flash's greater power and functionality in its Action Script 3.0.  I would like to have the skill to develop games and greater interactivity within flash.
I'll be watching the Flash Action Script 3.0 Essentials Tutorial with Todd Perkins on Lynda.

So far I've gotten through chapter 3 of the video tutorials. (About an hour and half of videos)
My impressions so far is now I remember why I didn't finish the computer science minor in my under graduate degree!  Yikes it's been pretty difficult to follow, even though Todd Perkins does a pretty good job at explaining some difficult concepts in simple language.

RSS feed results and redirecting week 4 PE to Flash Action Script

I've decided to redirect my practical learning experience to learn about Flash action script 3.0 instead of the rss feed from Full Sail's discussion board.  I'm going to rename that post so as not to lose credit but if you are interested in my results from the rss attempt, here it is.  I tried to setup a manual feed of a url through page2rss.com.  While it was easy to just copy and paste the discussion post url to page2rss and then link it to google reader, the service apparently is not working or there is some element that I missed in setting up the manual feed.  Although it is listed in my google reader feed list, it has not updated properly because I know that new posts have been made but that has not reflected in the rss feed.  Not sure if there are settings I need to change in page2rss.com, but I haven't found any.

Thanks for reading.

RSS feed from Full Sail Discussion Board

There was some discussion in our section regarding forgetting about discussion boards because it gets moved out of the dash board as soon as you post to it and put into the activities page which you then would need to search for it.  I wondered if there is a way to create an RSS feed from the discussion board page.  I tried to initially add it into Google Reader without luck.  I know there are aggregators out there that can produce feeds by analyzing a website's content and then publishing site changes to the feeder.  I'm wondering if they would work with Fullsail's discussion board.  I may be barking down a dead end here as FSO IT may have certain security restrictions in place that may limit the ability to do this.  But I'll research it and try.