Action Script 3.0 – Fuondation of Excellence

0. Creating an ActionScript Project (Tools you need)
1. ActionScript 3 Language Basics (6 hours)
1.1 Variables, Constants, Operators and Expressions
1.2 Loops, Conditions and Error handling
1.3 Functions
1.4 Arrays and Dictionaries
1.5 Classes and Packages
1.6 Events
2. Display List (8 hours)
2.1 Basic visual classes
2.2 Keyboard and mouse interaction
2.3 Basic animation and Tweens
2.4 Creating custom visual classes
2.5 Drawing and Masking
2.6 Bitmaps
2.7 Text
2.8 Filters and Transforms
3 Utility classes (2 hours)
3.1 Dates and Times
3.2 XML
4 Communication Between Flash and the Browser
5 Network (3 hours)
5.1 Saving and Loading data and assets
5.2 Streams and Sockets
5.3 Security
6. Sound, Video and Camera
7 Printing, Accessibility, Clipboard and other utilities
8 ActionScript Libraries for AIR applications

Action Script 3.0 – Advanced

1 Advanced Language Topics
1.1 Classes, inheritance, interfaces, overriding
1.2 Functions revisited
1.4 Dynamic objects revisited, introspection
1.5 Garbage Collection
1.6 Namespaces
2 Animation
2.1 Basic animation in ActionScript, Tween engines
2.3 Basic physics: velocity,acceleration, boundaries, friction
2.4 Advanced physics: easing, springing, collision detection, kinematics
3 3D Animation
3.1 Basic 3D animation, Introducing 3d libraries (Papervision3d, Away3D)
3.2 Scene, Objects, Materials
3.3 Camera, Lights, Shaders
3.4 Effects, Collada
4 Design patterns
5 New in Flash Player 10

1. horizontal and vertical directions are supported (“direction” property)
2. the children could be arbitrary aligned relative to each other (“alignCoeff” style)

You could see the demo and download the source code (MIT license) here