From the course: Learning ActionScript

Welcome - ActionScript Tutorial

From the course: Learning ActionScript

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Welcome

- Hi, this is Joseph Labrecque: senior interactive software engineer, Adobe education leader and Adobe community professional. I've been working with Flash platform technologies for over a decade and even after all this time, I find the core language behind Flash, ActionScript 3, remains a compelling solution to build interactive projects for the web and beyond. The lessons I'll be presenting in this course involve both core programming concepts that can be applied across languages and also elements and objects specific to ActionScript and the Flash platform. We'll explore concepts behind using ActionScript to develop Flash content, the differences between AS2 and AS3 and demonstrate core language concepts like variables, functions and arrays. We'll also take a look at the package and class structure behind AS3 and explore a variety of scenarios through objects like MovieClip, TextField, video and sound. Additionally, we'll explore the loading of external images and data transfer through XML and JSON. Whether you are new to programming in general or just want to become familiar with the basis of ActionScript, this set of lessons will provide a solid overview of not only the ActionScript language but basic programming tenants as well. Let's get started.

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