Development Tutorial Series Back to the Basics

This is an amazing tutorial series that covers the basics of working and developing with Flash CS5 and Actionscript 3. The goal of this tutorial series is to make sure to get the basics of working with AS3 firmly under your belt so that further tutorials become that much easier to walk through. This way you're not struggling to understang things like external classes, creating functions, managing events and the basic tips and tricks that come along with years of developing with Flash and Flash Media Server.

If you've ever found yourself scratching your head or feeling overwhelmed about learning Actionscript 3 for Flash then you've come to the right place. This series makes sure to give you the strong basics of getting started with developing for Flash in AS3. Whether you have come from an Actionscript 2 background or nothing at all, it should be no problem to follow along from just creating a basic FLA file and coding inside there to coding happily along to putting together your own classes and implementing them in an application that doesn't contain a line of code in the FLA file. With that we cover lots of tips and tricks on creating user interface elements and finally following up with the basics of coding for live media servers like Flash Media Server and Wowza Media Server.

This package includes :

Over 2 hours of video tutorials to help lead you through all the steps to get started with Flash Development. Once you have finished this series in getting started with Actionscript 3 and Flash development then we strongly recommend our other series on building a Tic Tac Toe application with Flash and Flash Media Server. Here is the index of tutorials that are offered in this series:

1. Introduction to Flash CS5 and basic concepts 10:07
2. Working with layers, panels and objects 11:12
3. Working with the actions panel and writing some Actionscript 3 11:17
4. Creating a new class and understanding package structure 10:47
5. Refining the new class and learning about troubleshooting 9:49
6. Mocking up on the stage and learning about symbols 9:33
7. Understanding coding conventions and learning more about the Flash AS3 API 11:17
8. Understanding functions, listeners and refining further our class to be more interactive 10:59
9. Error checking for user input and further explanation on each item covered up to this point 7:23
10. Create a brand new class and instantiate it from the first class and why we do it 8:54
11. Adding more functionality on to our new class, understanding private and public variables and functions 8:13
12. Making our first connection to Flash Media Server and covering the basics of the NetConnection object 11:42
13. Beginning basics and best practices of connecting to a live server like Flash Media Server 13:00

What that you'll also learn as you go the following:
- Many Flash AS3 development techniques, tips and tricks
- The basics of how FMS works and what is needed to get on a roll of developing
- Basic ideas and tips on how to mock up a user interface and then build it with AS3

This product requires:

Flash CS4 or CS5 to follow along, CS3 will probably also be fine. To watch the tutorials you will need Flash Player 10 or above installed in your browser or quicktime to play the video tutorials directly. Of course speakers to listen to it all and maybe a nice drink. You will require FMS2 or WMS2 and above to run the last couple of tutorials on connecting up.

Development Tutorial Series Back to the Basics is an absolutely great way of learning how to code for Flash and picking up the very basics of how to use this powerful piece of software. If you like this product then you'll definitely like our other series on building a Tic Tac Toe application with Flash and Flash Media Server that takes advantage of what you have learned in this set of tutorials and builds on it for a dedicated gaming and chatting environment.

Requirements:

Flash CS5 or CS4 to follow along.

Development Tutorial Series Back to the Basics comes with full support, although it is an AS-IS tutorial series. This means that if it blows up your computer then we won't be able to do much for you but if you're having trouble with viewing or implementation then please let us know. Please feel free to contact us at anytime concerning this.