This 2-day hands-on course you will learn how to develop reusable Flash based applications using ActionScript 3.0 and an object-oriented approach. This course is also suitable if you wish to use ActionScript 3.0 to create components for Flex-based development.

This ActionScript course starts by introducing Object-Oriented ActionScript, exploring the ActionScript 3.0 language and its features. You’ll learn how to implement ActionScript 3.0 code using object-oriented concepts through various hands-on exercises. You will also find out about real-world applications and learn various useful tips and tricks, when we will have an in-depth look at the development workflow and at how you can best structure applications and use design patterns to solve common problems and help you optimise the development workflow.

Upon completion of this ActionScript course you will be able to:

• Use ActionScript 3.0 syntax and its new features
• Understand core object-oriented programming concepts with ActionScript
• Apply best practice for developing reusable web applications
• Solve common problems by implementing design patterns
• Build and deploy real-world web applications using ActionScript
• Create components for Flex-based development

Introducing ActionScript 3.0

• What is ActionScript?
• Learning ActionScript 3.0 syntax
• New features in ActionScript 3.0
• Classes and objects
• Methods and properties
• Scope and access modifiers

Concepts of Object-Oriented Programming

• Inheritance
• Encapsulation
• Polymorphism
• Interfaces

Design Patterns

• What are Design Patterns?
• Implementing Design Patterns
• Observer
• Singleton
• Command
• Model-View-Controller

Best Practices and bringing it all together

• Working in teams Source and version control
• Frameworks