Summer 2010 week 2:—5/17/10: Mon. 9:00 - 12:00

Hi Everyone,
For everyone who was new this week in class, this is the home of the blog for this class. Please visit each week to find out what will be due the following week in class, and to help you recall what we covered in class.

Please review here what we did in class yesterday (Monday). Each week, I will post two things: (1) the files that we produced in class that week; and, (2) the homework that will be due the following week.

This week, I am assigning the same homework as last week for the new students. Last week, it was for extra credit. This week, however, it is not for extra credit. It is required for EVERYONE! There is also additional work you must do.

WEEK 2

1. Syllabus
• LINK    class syllabus
2. Classwork
• LINK    This weeks classfiles (same as last week's)
3. Homework
• exercise 1:

  Today, in this week's class, you completed a very basic animation with a few small bits of interactivity, making the animation stop when you clicked on your button, making it resume when you click on the 2nd button, and making it skip to frame 100 when you click on the 3rd button.

  1. What I would like you to do next, if you hadn't done so in class, is to modify the actions for the 3rd button to the following: gotoAndStop(currentFrame + 10);
  2. Next, from your library, take 4 more instances of your button symbol and arrange them next to your others on the stage.
  3. Give them the instance names of pt1_btn, pt2_btn, pt3_btn, and pt4_btn.
  4. Using what you understand about the actionscript we have already typed, try to make the 1st new button go to frame 1 and start playing. Then, make the 2nd new button go to frame 51 and start playing, the 3rd go to frame 101 and start playing, and the 4th go to frame 151 and start playing.
  5. HINTS: you will need 4 more functions, 4 more listeners, and inside those 4 new functions, you will need gotoAndPlay(); actions.
  6. Oh, and remember, COPY & PASTE is your friend. Just make certain you don't copy and paste mistakes, because then you multiply your mistakes.