Clock Crew

Community => General Discussion => Topic farted by: FossilClock on December 01, 2009, 10:52:15 AM

Title: ATTN CLOCK CREW: PLEASE MOLEST FOSSIL'S EDUCATION
Post by: FossilClock on December 01, 2009, 10:52:15 AM
So here's the deal. The program that we're using to learn flash is bunk. Yesterday it managed to freeze up and subsequently crash Flash CS4 a grand total of four times, and today it managed to kill CS4 twice. The program itself came with no resources for the instructor and does not spell out instructions for the students very well (or at all, in some cases).

Needless to say, an alternative must be obtained. Does anybody know of any decent textbooks for learning flash that don't cost astronomical amounts of cash?
Title: ATTN CLOCK CREW: PLEASE MOLEST FOSSIL'S EDUCATION
Post by: Wind-up Clock on December 01, 2009, 10:54:16 AM
You're using an external program to learn flash? What about the tutorials?
Title: ATTN CLOCK CREW: PLEASE MOLEST FOSSIL'S EDUCATION
Post by: DigitalLemonClock on December 01, 2009, 11:03:21 AM
adobe flash cs4 classroom in a book maybe?

i dunno man iam autodidactic
Title: ATTN CLOCK CREW: PLEASE MOLEST FOSSIL'S EDUCATION
Post by: FossilClock on December 01, 2009, 11:03:35 AM
Quote from: Wind-up Clock;1699513You're using an external program to learn flash? What about the tutorials?

Videos that show a guy coding some stuff (in Flash 8, by the way) and then after that instructions to essentially copy and paste what he did into CS4 with one or two minor changes or several major changes that we were never told how to do.
 
They're not particularly helpful.
Title: ATTN CLOCK CREW: PLEASE MOLEST FOSSIL'S EDUCATION
Post by: DWARFINATORclock on December 01, 2009, 08:07:26 PM
Most Flash courses I've taken weren't as informative as I'd like them to have been, ESPECIALLY the ones I took in school :/
Title: ATTN CLOCK CREW: PLEASE MOLEST FOSSIL'S EDUCATION
Post by: Thor on December 01, 2009, 08:12:39 PM
I doubt there's much you can learn about flash that you couldn't learn through a combination of trial and error and heavy use of online resources.
Title: ATTN CLOCK CREW: PLEASE MOLEST FOSSIL'S EDUCATION
Post by: Slurpee on December 01, 2009, 08:27:02 PM
flash doesn't come with tutorials anymore

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/?view=gettingstarted