MMP 420

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After today there are only three weeks of classes and then the final. Today we are going to look at the invitation process. Instead of just showing you how the ActionScript works I will start from the idea and work through that to the code. Hopefully you will get some insight into how to think through the kinds of issues you will face in your Final.

You should have a Flash file with the basic screens and classes for those screens (not everything needs to be fully functional at this time. When following along you can use this so you can directly apply what we are doing to your final.

Because we are doing this in class I will post some of the materials we create during the process after class.

Basically we will be going through:

Vague idea of what to do: invite a user to play a game

Specific description of what happens: focus on Events, Information, Actions

Linking that description to code (Event handlers, functions, variables/properties/parameters etc.)

Writing the code