Orland Media's Applied ActionScript 3.0™ is a course designed to bring people who have only a limited understanding of ActionScript right up to speed with the latest techniques in Flash programming.

The course is unique in that it takes the trainee through all of the theory, planning and hands-on implementation of a realistic project in ActionScript 3.0. It is firmly anchored in the real world and the aim is for every trainee to walk away with a new-found capability and confidence with this, Flash’s latest programming language.

Most purported ActionScript 3.0 courses currently on the market are actually ActionScript 2.0 courses "re-hashed". This one is the real deal, written from the ground up to deal with this language specifically.

Having taught Flash commercially at other training companies for six years,we were acutely aware of deficiencies in other courses and keen to eliminate all of them in the writing of "Applied ActionScript 3.0". We wanted to create the course we had always wanted to teach.

Accordingly, this course is:

• Concise and waffle-free
• Practical, not theoretical
• Written in plain English
• Written by a developer, for developers
• Comprehensive
• Focused (we don't spend long discussing the wrong way to do things)
• Constantly revised to reflect current best practice

"Applied ActionScript 3.0™" is aimed at the developer who already has a working knowledge of Flash and knows some elementary ActionScript, but is yet to get to grips with how things are done in ActionScript 3.0. It is an intermediate to upper-intermediate course.

Delegates, then, should be at a level where they are familiar with methods such as gotoAndPlay() and startDrag() and have assembled Flash movies with some basic interactivity, but need to get up to speed with preferred open source technologies and best practices - and especially with a class-based approach to development using ActionScript 3.0.

No code is written in frames during the course, everything is external - indeed none is even written using Flash. But don't be daunted by this: the course will put you where you need to be.

Feel free to contact us to discuss whether the course would suit you.

By completing the Applied ActionScript 3.0™ course you or your staff can expect to gain*:

• An understading of the differences between ActionScript 2.0 and ActionScript 3.0
• A familiarity with the third party tools available to help you write ActionScript
• Numerous tips from a Flash developer of 10 years' experience
• An understanding of the major concepts in ActionScript programming (loops, conditionals, variables, statements, data types, events, methods, classes)
• An understanding of how to successfully structure a typical Flash application generated purely from ActionScript 3.0 class files

By learning these things you will be able to work with a language that processes in some cases up to 10 times faster than its predecessor, you will be well placed to stay up to speed with Flash as it develops, and you'll be ready to look at more advanced programming concepts in the future.

* See our terms and conditions