ActionScript Training

Workshop Length

Objective

Description

Prerequisites

Pricing

For private, dedicated workshops see our price page. For public, open-enrollment workshops, see the table to the right.

Topics

• ActionScript Overview
  • ActionScript Features
  • Components
  • ActionScript in Flash Player
  • OOP
• Object Oriented ActionScript
  • What is Object Oriented Programming?
  • Key OO Concepts
  • Class/Objects
    • Encapsulation
    • Composition
    • Inheritance
    • Abstraction
    • Polymorphism
  • Benefits and drawbacks of OO
• Looping and Branching Constructs
  • The if Statement
  • The switch Statement
  • The for Loop
  • The for/in Loop
  • Polymorphism
• Datatypes and Static Typing
  • Benefits Static Typing?
  • Type Syntax
  • Compatible Types
  • Built in Dynamic Classes
  • Circumventing Type Checking
  • Casting
  • Datatype Information for Built in Classes
  • Type Checking Pitfalls
• Using Classes
  • Creating Objects
  • Constructor Args
  • Accessing Properties
  • Invoking Methods
  • Passing Args and Returning Values
  • Class Methods versus Instance Methods
• Defining Classes
  • Defining Classes
  • Constructor Functions
  • Defining Properties
  • Defining Methods
• Inheritance and Composition
  • What is inheritance?
  • What is composition?
  • Subclasses as Subtypes
  • Overriding Methods and Properties
  • Constructor Functions in Subclasses
  • Subclassing Built in Classes
  • Augmenting Built in Classes and Objects
• Interfaces and Abstraction
  • The Case for Abstraction
  • Interfaces and Multidatatype Classes
  • Multiple Type Inheritance with Interfaces
• Packages
  • Package Syntax
  • Defining Packages
  • Package Access and the Classpath
• Exceptions
  • The try/catch block
  • Handling Multiple Types of Exceptions
  • Exception Bubbling
  • The finally Block
  • Nested Exceptions
• Distributing Class Libraries
  • Sharing Class Source Files
  • Sharing Classes Without Sharing Source Files
• Design Patterns
  • Observer Design Pattern
  • Singleton Design Pattern
  • Model View Controller Design Pattern
  • Delegation Event Model
• Other Language Features
  • Runtime Exceptions
  • Runtime Types
  • Sealed Classes
  • Method Closures
  • ECMAScript for XML
  • Regular Expressions
  • Namespaces
  • New primitive types
• DOM3 Event Model
  • Display List API
  • DOM3 event model
• Introduction to Flex
  • Eclipse IDE
  • MXML
  • Flex Server
  • OpenLaszlo