RE: FLASH: Aaaggh - Flash 5 programming

[Paul Willoughby]

jdowdellmacromedia [dot] com

 wrote on Monday, October 23, 2000:

 

> ... or don't. If this is how you make decisions, then really, 

> maybe the

> world is better off if your work doesn't get as much exposure.


Harsh words, but in a vague defence of JD I thought he made a good point

about how dangerous it is to reject something because it's too complex or

you don't understand it. On the flipside, rejecting something cos you don't

need it, and you *understand why* you don't need it is perfectly acceptable.


I new little about programming when I started with Flash 4, apart from a

months intensive course in COBOL. What I understood from that month was

there are only three things in a computer program...Statements (do

something), Iterations (do something a certain amount of times),

Conditionals (doing one of the former if a condition is/isn't met)


Clearly these concepts are not enough to transform you into an Action Script

programmer, but they were enough for me to kill the fear of learning a new

language. They are also useful to allow you to think about the logic of what

you want to achieve. I always write out in (very)long hand what I think a

script is gonna do before I even touch Flash - worry about syntax

later...after all, great resources like this list are always there to help

you out.


paul


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