Shad Valley 2005 :: Web/Flash Lectures

Day 1

• Introduction to the web/Internet
• A bit of history of the web/Internet
• DARPA / ARPAnet
• Government/Educational use only
• World Wide Web developed in early 90's
• Commercial internet access available shortly after.
• Some basic networking concepts (client/server paradigm)
• What happens when I go to a web site
• What is HTML (what it is for, how it works)
• A conceptual introduction to XML
• Exploring HTML
• HTML Editing software
• Moving documents and images to the web server — (S)FTP
• Techniques for creating a whole web site.
• Intro to CSS and the content/presentation separation paradigm.
• Bring up plugins, java, quicktime, Flash
• Talk about Flash and talk about what is possible with it.
• Homework: Think of some simple character that you would like to create and animate. It may help to draw it out on paper before hand.

Day 2

• Overview of the Flash MX 2004 interface.
• Drawing in Flash
• Layers
• Vector objects
• Shapes vs. Graphics, MovieClips, and Buttons
• Drawing tools
• Animation concepts
• Timeline
• Frames
• Key frames
• Tweening
• Motion paths
• Actionscript introduction (mostly for buttons)
• Exporting your movie
• Adding a movie to HTML on a web site.
• Student's time to create a character and animate it.