I had never worked on Flash much before this course and this course had introduced me firmly to Flash.

To be honest, I like Flash because it allowed me to create animation and to express ideas more fully.

In the course, I found the following Flash features most interesting:

1. Stage and timeline

2. Movie Clips and Objects

3. Flash and webpages

4. XML and Flash

However, the native help for Flash is probably the worst I have come across and without experience on Flash, I struggled a bit with the programming side.  The error checking and report mechanism of Flash is also weak in that Flash often fails to detect spelling errors of variables and thus not report them back to me.

Also, another annoying thing about Flash is that different versions of the same software are not compatible! I had real problems of taking my project to different machines at work and home since they all had different versions of Flash.  I fail to understand why Macromedia failed to address this!

But, the nice thing about Flash is the integration with Fireworks and Dreamweaver.  In fact, I have grown quite fond of the macromedia suite.

I like to believe I have developed much of the basic skills for Flash and can say that I like Flash overall. I think I can develop learning objects quickly with Flash though I have much to learn with art.

Andrew