Over the past few months, Adobe has sponsored a series of free, intensive days of training on ActionScript 3.0 by Colin Moock. Based on his best-selling book, Essential ActionScript 3.0 (O'Reilly, 2007), the popular event produced by FITC Design and Technology Events covers the fundamental skills developers need to program for Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR. Topics include object-oriented programming, classes, objects, variables, methods, packages, conditionals, loops, operators, functions, event handling, displaying things on screen, and compiling and running programs.
Following the tradition of Flex Camp and the onAIR Bus Tour, this free lecture is an important part of Adobe's ongoing initiative to bring knowledge to the development community. Now you can download the booklet that attendees receive (published by O'Reilly), which reviews the day's major concepts.
The ActionScript 3.0 From the Ground Up Tour continues to other locations in Europe and India. Sign up to attend in a city near you.
Note: You may also wish to see the full-day lecture notes.
Colin Moock is the author of five best-selling books on ActionScript, all published by O'Reilly Media, Inc. Moock's works include ActionScript: The Definitive Guide, ActionScript: The Definitive Guide for Flash MX, Essential ActionScript 2.0, and Essential ActionScript 3.0. Moock is a regular speaker at international Flash industry conferences, including FITC, Flash Forward, and Adobe MAX.