Boxercast for CS205
Podcasts for the Pacific University Community. The CS205 podcast supports Mike Geraci's Introduction to Programming for Multimedia class. Each episode features a short lecture about a single concept in ActionScript 2.0. These lectures are designed to assist students with little or no experience with programming languages.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 15 minutes
- Episodes
- 9
- Years Active
- 2007
Episode 9: Loops and loops and loops and loops and...
Episode 9: Loops are a very powerful aspect of any programming language, they allow you to perform a series of actions quickly and efficiently. in this episode, we'll talk about all the different typ…
00:12:20 |
Mon 02 Apr 2007
Episode 8: if(you don't know conditionals)then listen to this
Episode 8: conditional statements are vital to any programming language. This podcast introduces you to "if" statements in ActionScript and their more versatile counterpart, the "switch".
00:09:45 |
Fri 16 Feb 2007
Episode 7: Passing parameters to functions and hold the mayo!
Episode 7 talks about how and why we pass a parameter to a function or a method. Some functions just need a little extra direction before they can do their job just like you and I need to know exactl…
00:08:26 |
Sat 10 Feb 2007
Episode 6: Objects, classes and a cheesy metaphor
Episode 6 introduces a "big picture" concept: objects and classes, the pre-defined elements that swirl around the Flash universe, and the system by which they are organized. Key topics in this episod…
00:15:31 |
Thu 08 Feb 2007
Episode 5: Meet your new friend, the variable
Episode 5 introduces you to variables. You'll learn how to declare, initialize, set, and change a variable. The slightly more complex aspects of variables are also introduced: you'll hear about stric…
00:21:50 |
Mon 05 Feb 2007
Episode 4: When Textbook Examples go Terribly Wrong
Episode 4 deciphers one of the first 'serious" code examples in the texbook. Chapter 4, page 77 features 12 lines of ActionScript that is designed to show how to use Boolean data types.
00:13:33 |
Fri 02 Feb 2007
Episode 3: Fundamental Actionscript Syntax
Episode 3 discusses some of the more important aspects of writing ActionScript. Topics include: naming instances, formatting statements, and the built-in utilities for checking your code for errors.
00:23:42 |
Fri 02 Feb 2007
Episode 2: Events and Event Handlers
Episode 2 introduces the concept of event-driven interactions in Flash. What are events? What types of events are there? How do you trigger reactions to them with ActionScript? All these will be disc…
00:18:24 |
Tue 30 Jan 2007
Episode 1: Getting Started with ActionScript
Episode 1 covers some of the basics about Flash ActionScript, SWF files, the Flash player application, and how to start writing code. There is also some information about where to access the online d…
00:15:33 |
Mon 29 Jan 2007
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