INST5245 - Interactive Multimedia Production, Summer, 2008, Utah State Univ. OpenCourseWare (OCW)

Utah State University,
4800 Old Main Hill, 
Logan, UT 84322,

Course Description,
This course uses Flash CS3 (Flash 9)/Actionscript 3.0. You may also be interested in INST 5270 , which uses Flash 8/Actionscript 2.0.

This course familiarizes students with Macromedia Flash. Topics to be covered include fundamental programming concepts (variables, variable types, code re-use, commenting code, and basic control structures) in addition to the fundamentals of the flash environment (animation or “tweening”, vector graphics, use of sound and video). Students finishing this course will have at least one completed fully functional Flash project for their portfolios demonstrating a strong knowledge of the tool and a good foundation in the ActionScript language as the tool and the language apply to instructional design.