Flex 3: Using ActionScript

Flex 3: ActionScript 3 is a comprehensive introduction to the ActionScript 3 scripting language, taught in context of Adobe Flex 3. Beginning with simple declarative statements and core syntax, and moving through control and data structures, by course completion you will have learned intermediate Object Oriented Programming, including static classes and interfaces.

Audience

• Have already attended the Flex 3: Rich Client Applications training course, or
• Have equivalent experience with using MXML in Adobe Flex 3

• Be familiar with using Adobe Flex Builder

Next Steps

All Flex 3 courses 

Course outline

Introducing Flex 3: Developing Rich Client Applications

Introducing Mastery Learning

Understanding the Course Format Reviewing the course prerequisites Reviewing the course outline Setting up the application files

Introducing ActionScript 3.0 Syntax

Understanding basic syntax

Declaring variables and their type Data type conversion Using language operators Mathematical operators Instantiating objects Creating and populating instances of the Array class Working with generic objects ("associative arrays") Using the ArrayCollection class

Learning ActionScript 3.0 Control Structures

Manipulating String data Using the Alert class Using Conditional Statements Using switch/case statements Using the Date class Working with iteration (looping) statements Writing and using user defined functions Separating and including ActionScript and MXML files

Object Oriented Programming in ActionScript 3.0

Introducing Object Oriented Programming Terminology Writing a class definition Declaring class methods Re-using code through inheritance Writing and using an interface Using static classes and methods to persist local data Understanding static methods Storing data using the static SharedObject class