Meeting tonight: ActionScript 3 Primer
At our last meeting, we looked at Flex and AIR. If you want to dive into the land of the Rich Internet Application, you’ll need to learn ActionScript 3. Even if the RIA isn’t for you, the latest versions of the Flash Player support ActionScript 3. AS3 introduces a number of improvements over AS2 - most notably a substantial increase in the speed of code execution - but it also has some major differences from what you’re used to with AS2.
To help get you started climbing that learning curve, tonight’s meeting will be an introduction to ActionScript 3, with particular attention to some of the differences between it and ActionScript 2. We’ll take a look at a lot of side-by-side code comparisons to see how some things compare between AS2 and AS3.
To top it all off, there are some great prizes lined up, including a number of books on Flash CS3 and ActionScript 3. Plus, everybody who attends will earn a ticket towards the raffle of Adobe software to be held at our June meeting! Remember, the software of your choice up to a value of $2100 US will be given away in June - the more tickets you’ve earned, the better your chance of winning. As if the great content at the meeting isn’t reason enough to attend!
Our meeting is scheduled for tonight, Thursday, April 4, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. We’ll meet at our usual location, room W411, Red River College, Princess Street Campus.
