Flash CS3 Documentation

•General naming guidelines- Keep your names short and sweet.
•Avoiding reserved words and language constructs- When naming instances and variables, avoid using reserved words, which can cause errors in your code.
•Naming variables-Do not begin variable names with numbers.
•Naming constants-You can use constants for situations in which you need to refer to a property whose value never changes.
•Naming Boolean variables-Start Boolean variables with the word "is".
•Naming functions and methods-Use descriptive names,and name methods as verbs.
•Naming classes and objects- Begin a class name with an uppercase letter.
•Naming packages- It's common for package names to use "reverse domain" naming convention.
•Naming interfaces- Starting interface names with an uppercase "I" helps you distinguish an interface from a class.
•Naming custom components- Component names have an uppercase first letter, and any concatenated words are written in mixed case.
•Writing good comments- Always leave good comments, they make people feel better about themself.
•Adding comments to classes- You use documentation comments to describe the code's specifications, but not the implementation.
•Keeping your ActionScript code in one place- Keep your actionscript code in one place, so you can edit it at any time. And so its easy to find.
•Attaching code to objects-You must avoid attaching ActionScript code to objects in a FLA file, even in simple or prototype applications.
•Handling scope-Scope is the area where the variable is known and can be used in a SWF file, such as on a timeline, globally across an application, or locally within a function.
•Structuring a class file- It takes your actionscript 2.0 and exports as a flash video.(SWF)
•About using functions- If you are using ActionScript 2.0, avoid writing functions on a timeline.
•General formatting guidelines- When you use spaces, line breaks, and tab indents to add white space to your code, you increase your code's readability.
•Writing conditional statements- Place conditions on separate lines in if, else..if, and if..else statements.And use braces ({}) for if statements.
•Writing compound statements- Compound statements contain a list of statements within braces ({}). The statements within these braces are indented from the compound statement.
•Writing a for statement- Just put // to write a statement in flash code.
•Writing return statements- Don't use parentheses [()] with any return statements that have values.
•Writing switch statements- All switch statements include a default case.
•About using listener syntax- You can write listeners for events in several ways in Flash 8 and later.

1/25/10-1/29/10

We learned how to make games that have the Drag and Drop method, plus we learned how to debug our game. But most of the debug files did not work. They had code, but nothing on the stage, and when we tested the .swf it did nothing at all.

01/18/10-01/22/10

This week we uploaded files, and reviewed for exams.

1/11/10-1/15/10

This week we made a video presenting our game and powerpoint, and created a "game" page.

1/4/10 - 1/8/10

This week we esentially did nothing, because we didn't have school due to snow.