This assignment required that we added sound and images to our Flash files.

I really went out on a limb and departed from all other assignments when I worked on this one. (see update below)

Rather than have a straight tweened series of pages with some background and sound added, I focused on creating 3 different Actionscript 3 demos. In order to do so, I found some basic concept code, worked to understand it and then developed a cool demo around it.

My favourite demo was the recreation of the Star Trek old series intro, as I created a star field for this. To do so, I programmed a very basic particle system as well as extending the movie class.

As a result of this work, the concepts I learned in Actionscript 3.0 included:

• Extending classes
• Collision detection
• Multiple instantiations of an object
• Associative arrays
• And more. . .

These are concepts that no one else in the class worked on, and I was pretty happy with what I had learned.

Update: I received a horrific 10/30 for my efforts here, and consider this mark to be overly punitive on the part of the instructor. I registered a complaint with the instructor as well as management, however that mark still stands.

Recommendation: Stay within the class guidelines / material. Make sure you know EXACTLY what the instructor wants. Vagueness on their part is not acceptable. They should provide examples and encourage classmates to publish their material. If this doesn't happen, then speak up loudly and clearly. In my case, I received absolutely no credit for the work I put into learning Actionscript 3.0.

Although Actionscript 3 was introducted in 2006, my understanding is that the Advanced Flash course - MDIA 4310 still only supports Actionscript 2.