0235 - Introduction to Flash CS6

Description

Course Details Flash has grown beyond its best known application, Web pages. Nowadays, Flash movies appear everywhere—the Internet, mobile devices, the cinema, TV shows and commercials, computer games. Using Flash, you can create a wide variety of file formats, including apps (iOS and Android), HTML5, and video that work on virtually any device. In this course, you'll learn how to create animation, interactive movies, and mobile apps in Flash CS6 and develop several full-blown Flash applications. We'll start by reviewing the Flash workspace, creating text and graphics, and animating objects on the Flash stage. Then, we'll look in detail at the anatomy of a Flash movie—how to use the Flash timeline, layers and frames to control objects, and timing on the stage. While creating your first Flash movie, you'll learn how to format and embed external digital media and how to make them appear or play at specific times. We'll also look at controlling digital media based on specific events, such as end user mouse clicks. No course on Flash is complete without an introduction to ActionScript, Flash's powerful programming language. We'll get our hands dirty, creating interactive buttons with ActionScript 3.0. You'll also learn to write scripts that control movie flow, and scripts that call to and load external videos, Web pages, and other Flash movie files. As we create our movie, we'll go over creating and animating 3-D objects, syncing sounds with animations, and publishing your Flash movies to the Internet and to mobile apps. By the end of the course, you'll understand the fundamentals of Flash and be ready to master more advanced Flash topics. How It Works This course is fully online, you require internet access and an email account. The course duration is 6 weeks, followed by a 2-week period to complete the final exam (online, open book). Lessons are released on Wednesdays and Fridays of each week, for a total of 12. You are not required to be online at any specific time. In addition to the specific lesson content, there is a discussion board with each lesson and often there is an optional assignment to apply the learning. Following each lesson, there is a short multiple choice quiz. Your score on these quizzes does not count towards the final mark but completing these helps solidify your learning as well as prepare you for the final exam. The final exam is an open-book, multiple choice exam and you need to achieve a minimum of 65% on the final exam to pass the course. There is only one opportunity to pass the exam. A certificate of completion from Ed2Go is available for printing immediately upon successful completion of the course and a certificate from the University of Waterloo will be emailed typically 1-2 weeks later. Many of the Ed2Go courses are eligible towards the various online certificates offered by WatSPEED. Requirements • Internet access • Email • One of the following browsers: o Mozilla Firefox o Microsoft Internet Explorer (9.0 or above) o Google Chrome o Safari • Adobe PDF plug-in (a free download obtained at Adobe.com .) Adobe Flash Pro CS6 for Windows or Adobe Flash Pro CS6 for Mac or any Adobe Creative Suite bundle containing Adobe Flash CS6 are all acceptable (software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins); Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8, or Mac OS 10.x. Artistic ability is not required, just a desire to be creative.