Re: FLASH: A teacher replies to Cheri et al.

[Cheri Harder]

See, I knew you could do it!  You have all the tools at hand and you teach

it already.  You could be the one to make the "basic" tutorials!  What?  You

don't have time to do it for free?  :-) That is what I really meant that to

be my

point, through all of that previous post.  Bash MM if you want (no-one

personally, of course), but the rest of the stuff is gratis.


Some programmers figured some ways around the limitations of Action Script

and

devised ways to make it work (in ways it was not intended, as Eric was

saying) and created some pretty fantastic programs and games.  They could do

this because they are programmers already.   I don't think they _owe_

anybody else an explanation of how they figured it out at all, and I always

appreciate the time it takes to shoot out even some hints as to how they got

there.  I certainly don't think they owe the public the time it would take

to thoroughly explain all the intricities(sp?) of how they did it.  I

know, that wasn't your point, Tom, because you are just asking for the

basics to be explained, and I do think that is a BIG shortcoming on MM's

part.  But some users seem to think that because they can't make

actionscript dynamically draw 3D cellular diagrams, that Branden OUGHT to

provide a tutorial.


I am very very lacking in the artistic/drawing area of Flash.  I don't see

any "open the program...draw a line from two inches below top left to 3

inches above bottom right..." kind of things to teach me how to draw, on the

Flash resource pages.  I go elsewhere for that kind of basic information.  I

guess that is what I'm trying to say.  Get the basic programming information

elsewhere.  Pay for classes or books or find free tutorials.  The

information is there.  How to add it to Flash is MM's responsibility, not

the geeks (we had to pay to learn how to be geeks, too!)  And I really

really don't mean to sound like a stingy person, I love to help.  I just

don't have that kind of time.  Besides, like Eric said, the functionality

has only been around for 6 months, and we are continually learning new ways

to use it.  Give it some time, and the free tutorials will likely get

better.


Just please remember, they are free.  And please know that I am not taking

this OR making my comments as a personal attack, honest!!!!


(some of us geeks were born in the 40's, too!  <shudder>)

~~~~Cheri Harder~~~~~




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