Weekly Review

February 14th, 2011

Week 1

After our first week of computer studies you should know:

The difference between an instance and an Object.

How to do a motion tween. If you need help with this concept check out this video
Motion Tweens

How to do a shape tween. If you need help with this concept or need to look over it again check out this video.
How to do a shape tween.

Understanding mouse input.

Understanding event handling and functions.

Be able to use the component inspector to change component properties

Understand how movie clips use independent time lines.

Be able to start an animation based on user input.

Know the workings of stop(); gotoAndStop(); and gotoAndPlay();

camelCaseingYourInstanceNames.

Understand how and when to use comments.
Working with Comments

How to create instances of object from the library in action script along with the function of the display stack and the use of the addChild() function.
Adding Objects to the stage.

Week 2

This week has been all about function. We had a quiz on how to create, define, and call a function. Students should know when and why to use functions in your code.

Timers and clock counters have also been a major focus of this week. Students should be able to create a timer and be able to catch the event with an event listener.

We have spent some time this week on conditional if statements. We will be doing a much more in depth look at condition statements in the coming weeks. For now students should be able to create an if statement to test variables.

Reference videos:

Doug Winnie videos

Videos 8-10 were covered for functions

Videos 14-15 were covered for timers

Students also started their scoreboard assignment.