Re: FLASH: Flash 4 download (don't do it!)

[Rick Nordby]

Thanks for all of the responses.


I agree teaching the latest version is the best way to go but....


When you have already started a bunch of kids, who range from fast learners

and computer whizzes to not-so-fast-computer newbie learners off with one

version of a program is it worth it to change midstream?  Not in my book.

Especially when I am just barely ahead of them on the learning curve.  12+

hour work days are plenty long enough for now.


Will I use Flash 5 next semester?  Absolutely.


Why do I want the Flash 4 demo version?  Because like a fool I let the

students and their families know it was available as a free demo download.

And of course it was available, the first week of school.


I tried download.com  and the macromedia site with no luck.  Yes I had the

Flash 4 demo version but deleted it when the real thing showed up.


So..... if anyone has the demo download for Flash 4 I would really really

appreciate it.  Thanks.

--

Rick Nordby 

Shorecrest High School

rick [dot] nordbyshorelineschools [dot] org

>

From: Helen Triolo <designeri-technica [dot] com>

> Organization: i-Technica

>

Reply-To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 17:00:30 -0400

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: Re: FLASH: Flash 4 download (don't do it!)

> 

>> At 10:43 AM 9/29/0, Rick Nordby wrote:

>>> I am new to this list and to Flash.  I am teaching a new  animation class.

>>> We are using Flash 4 since that was what was available last spring.  I don't

>>> want to change the kids (and me) over to Flash 5 just now.

> 

> and John Dowdell responded:

>> 

>> (If there's any choice possible, I'd highly recommend teaching with the

>> current application... the old habits won't have as much value once they

>> get out of school. You know that situation there better than me though, of

>> course.)

>> 

> I have to second jd's advice, even though you didn't ask for it ;-) just

> in case a non-Macromedia person's advice makes any difference.

> Everything about Flash 4 is very specific only to Flash 4, but learning

> Flash 5 opens doors to all kinds of other possibilities.  On the drawing

> side, the use of pallettes (which MM calls panels) and bezier tools in

> Flash 5 makes it very similar to many widely-used graphics packages, but

> that's just the cake beneath the icing.  The real power (she says, in

> her best programmer voice) is in the new Flash 5 actionscript which,

> once learned, can be applied to any other object-oriented programming

> language, meaning that you get back what you put into learning it

> several times over, both in terms of being able to create

> well-controlled (and now well-documented) animations and whole

> applications, and in terms of extensibility to other web and non-web

> apps.  (This, I have to say, was not true of Flash 4). Well, I could

> stay on this soapbox all day, but I guess it's time to step down and get

> back to work.

> 

> Regards,

> Helen

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