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Welcome to the wiki page to accompany the Spring 2011 Intro to Programming: Flash course!

This will be a place for us to keep notes and reference materials for the year. I'll be asking each of you to contribute pages to what you find here, but I also expect everybody to make corrections and additions to the document as a whole.

Who's doing what? Classic Videogame Review

Graphics and animation in Flash
Tool Time Tutorials! Symbols Tweens Frames
 * 3D Rotation Tool
 * Bind Tool
 * Bone Tool
 * Brush Tool
 * Eraser Tool
 * Free Transform Tool
 * Gradient Transform Tool
 * Ink Bottle Tool
 * Line Tool
 * Pencil Tool
 * PolyStar Tool
 * Rectangle and Rectangle Primitive Tools
 * Oval and Oval Primitive Tools
 * Paint-bucket and Ink Bottel Tools

Actions - in Flash
Frame Actions Buttons

ActionScript - in separate (.as) files
Classes for Symbols Listening to the Keyboard Random Numbers Testing for Collisions Playing Sounds Multiframe Games

Repeating Items in Actionscript
Timers While Loops For Loops Arrays Dynamically adding MovieClips

Extra!
Reading Files (optional) - borrowed from the 2009 wiki. Tracking the Mouse (optional)