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TheZsterBunny

Fri Jul 09, 2004 8:05 am


Introduction to Actionscript

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Hi, I'm TheZsterBunny. 

Usually I post on the Turing or Spam forums, but I've decided to become more involved with flash. 

Now, I've been using flash for a long time, but only recently have I been introduced to programming in Actionscript. I can do basic commands (stop, gotoandplay), but I would really like to learn more about this language.

If anyone would like to help me learn actionscript, I would be very appreciative.

-ZsterBunny

p.s. its not just for me. my compsci teacher plans to have me teach flash in his web class next year. 

p.p.s. i know that there are tutorials out there, but none of them seem to help explain the syntax.


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zylum

Fri Jul 09, 2004 11:45 pm



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i could help, although i havent done flash in a long time (about a year now)... it would really help if you knew java since actionscript is heavily based on java...

btw, my footer was done in flash :wink:


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TheZsterBunny

Sat Jul 10, 2004 8:42 am



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wouldn't the opposite be true then?

I have both ICS 4M and [web page course] this year.

would you recommend learning actionscript and then java, or vice versa?

-Z


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zylum

Sat Jul 10, 2004 2:15 pm



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what i meant was that if you already knew java that would be nice because then learning AS would be a breaze... not that you should learn java before actioscript...


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McKenzie

Sun Jul 11, 2004 1:20 pm



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Well, actually they both derive from C/C++ syntax, so Java is more a sibling of Actionscript than a parent. 
Be patient Z, try :
http://www.actionscript.org/tutorials.shtml
The early tutorials seem over-simple, but go through them.


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TheZsterBunny

Tue Jul 13, 2004 8:33 pm



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thanks 

-Z

-edit-

reading into this, it seems that Actionscript 2.0 is not too different from turing. except for the fact that they got rid of the stupid 'end ___' things people needed.

-Z


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The_Triangle

Mon Nov 28, 2005 4:17 pm



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thanks 

-Z

-edit-

reading into this, it seems that Actionscript 2.0 is not too different from turing. except for the fact that they got rid of the stupid 'end ___' things people needed.

-Z

Whatt?? ActionScript 2.0?? 

Is this a different program that can stand alone without opening flash mx?


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TheXploder

Sun Dec 11, 2005 6:00 pm



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The_Triangle