810:022 Fall 2008
Microcomputer Applications and Systems Integration
- MASI
*** VIP:
Check your FOUR ASSIGNMENTS (FLASH and FW
Projects) ***
- Chapter 08: Setting
up Flash Video. This is one of three videos from the Lowery book.
VIP: Download captions.xml from the above page. Also, ClipNabber link to
get your FLV youtube.com video for captioning. DO NOT TYPE captions.xml
yourself!
VIP: Chapter 08
files, including captions.xml which you will need to DOWNLOAD and not
try to type in yourself.
- News Flash: See your F L A S H
Assignment
ONE and TWO so far, along with
your classmates Fireworks Assignment's One and Two.
- Final Exam Study
Guide including DW, FW, FLA and midterm exam one material and links.
- Final Exam Flash Study
Guide and resources. Note: Flash video and Flash intros portion is
NOT yet ready. You received one of the handouts back on Wednesday,
November 12th. Today you received that handout again, plus 3 additional
questions.
- News Flash: See your F L A S H
Assignment
ONE and TWO so far, along with
your classmates Fireworks Assignment's One and Two.
-
Talented Ball .avi video
and other files for reviewing the Wednesday December 9th StudioIT 1 class.
Our first time in ITT 134, StudioIT 1 computer lab.
- Here is the version of Talented
Ball captioning done during lab class on 12/09/2008.
It was uploaded to sunny.uni.edu during the class. The cd, ls, ls -l, pwd
commands are shown, to help you understand sunny.uni.edu commands.
cd .., mkdir talent, cd talent, ls -l, ls, and pwd. The more times you
see these commands, the sooner you will be comfortable with them.
- Creating a
Dropdown
Menu with Fireworks CS3 is a nice tutorial that Joe developed while
taking the class this semester.
- Scarecrow mathematics and the Wizard of
Oz as an occasion for learning new ways to control the FLVPlayer
component with ActionScript 3.0, aka AS3 for short.
- Making separate Flash video control components and how to implement
a preview
image saved from the FLVPlayer component. Watch the Adobe video
and download the practice video and/or
read
the tutorial to learn more about Flash video and how to offer controls
without using the SKINs with the FLVPlayer.
- Wednesday, December 3rd example for
Flash Video
Assignment using youtube video and ClipNabber, with explanation
to supplement the textbook and chapter 08. FLVPlayback and
FLVPLaybackCaptioning components. Piano.
Note: Full Screen works. See web page for instructions on how to
PUBLISH to allow for FULL SCREEN.
- VIP: WEDNESDAY hands-on classes: StudioIT
Lab new schedule and VIP note concerning FRIDAY December 5th class.
- Chapter 08: Setting
up Flash Video. This is one of three videos from the Lowery book.
- Here is another video, but this one is not from our textbook.
Ghostbuster's
Mr.
Staypuft Marshmallow Man marches through NYC while Venkman, Stantz,
Spengler and Seddemore contemplate how to solve such a big problem.
Pete, Ray, Egon and Winston are the Ghostbuster's team.
- Buttons and Animation Example: Friday,
Thanksgiving break day StudioIT 2 class.
- See your classmates F L A S H Assignment
ONE and
your classmates Fireworks Assignment One and Two solutions so far.
- Here is a link to the Flash
MASKING example featured on two different Wednesday, Nov 19th
handouts.
You also have the Unix and sunny.uni.edu ls, ls -l, ls -a, SSH
Secure Shell, cd .., cd nov19th and pwd commands on that same handout
where the two files were UPLOADED using SSH Secure Shell.
Please review those BEFORE Friday's class. Notice the URL when you
are looking at this maskTVfinalFour.html file. What folder is it
apparently stored in on jacobson's account on the UNI web server?
Has a word or two or two-hundred or two-thousand about writing as a way to
learn too.
Speaking of words:
Flash assignment due date is quite
flexible, Thankfully, so be thankful and relax should you need an
extension.
- Work out your answers to the in-class group exercise that
we had on Monday, November 17th. You should use your notes, handouts and
Flash software to try to discover answers and verify answers and problems.
- The new web page for 810:023 Microcomputer
Systems class - 1 MWF Spring 2009 class. It will be a completely
different class from what it was the last few spring semesters.
Projects based, Adobe web and graphics and animation based class.
- Masking Example for
review of Friday 11/14 class. More
Masking
examples.
- About the spring 2009
810:088
Maya and
810:023 Microcomputer Systems classes.
-
Flash assignment #1:
Chapter
7 based assignment has you getting some more images, but this time its
not disjoint rollovers.
Note: When looking at the above example with Internet Explorer, you
may have
to CLICK once to activate the Flash movie and then CLICK a 2nd time on the
button before it responds and executes the code to take you to this page:
Flash Window and Panel snapshots and assignment
details.
Note about the
assignment and these pages.
Flash buttons and games work fine with Mozilla Firefox.
Microsoft is apparently still struggline with how to make web browser's
work with Flash,
at least for some versions. One has to wonder!
- The Dancer Chapter 7 example
skip intro button works, and it goes to the www.uni.edu web site either at
the end of the animation or when you skip the intro. It does this in the
same browser window.
See the Actionscript code for the
dancer intro application.
- Five fun files for Friday Flash class in
StudioIT II lab.
- Adobe Flash: Chapter 7
- Lowery book example - November 5th, 2008 class example.
USE INTERNET EXPLORER for Best Results - Firefox does NOT show the
Flash animated graphics fade in and fade out
smoothly.
- Disjoint
menus assignment.
- Fireworks/Dreamweaver Assignment Two: Fireworks Assignment
TWO and review of class #21 (Monday, October 13th) and class #30
(Monday, November 3rd).
Fireworks Disjoint Rollovers assignment is due on MONDAY, November
10th.
- Uploading
your work to sunny.uni.edu using Dreamweaver or using SSH Secure Shell
or using Cyberduck software.
- See Assignment One and Assignment
Two solutions so far.
- Monday, October 27th examples: In class example
is
quite similar to the example done before
class. Click on the Bluish.htm file and on the LongsPeak.htm file to
see the examples.
Both LongsPeak.htm and Bluish.htm demonstrate pop-up menus and text
following a curved path. The rest of the huge collection of files are
created automatically by the Firefox Export command.
- Fireworks ASSIGNMENT DUE ON Friday, October 31st: Fireworks POPUP
menus and text following a path example was handed out on Friday, October 24th.
The handout does NOT contain anything not included on the above web page link.
- Friday, October 17th class example FW and DW page:
Fireworks
and Dreamweaver Integration and FW graphics experience.
Commands menu > Creative submenu >
Add Picture Frame... command.
Edit menu > Copy HTML code... command
so we could move the Code and Images over to DW (Dreamweaver).
Live Filters were illustrated too, invoking FW editor on an image
from within Dreamweaver. We had to Fit Canvas to enlarge
the fireworks CANVAS so the GLOW filter effect could be
seen around the Frame and the polar bear photograph.
Link to get to the Adobe CS3 Web Workflows -
Building Web Sites
with Adobe
Creative Suite 3 download site for needed exercise files.
- Polar Bear: Fireworks files - chapter four
of the textbook.
- Long lines of
Polar Bears
on the march across the web page.
- Information on
Imagemaps, hotspots and hypergraphic links and experiments to try with
different browsers. Comparing the behavior of Firefox and Internet
Explorer.
- Fireworks Assignment
One and review of class #21 (Monday, October 13th).
- Study Guide Answers: Two ways to
CROP in Photoshop ought to be taught.
-
Dreamweaver: Further information
on DW Imagemaps, Hotspots, DW editor behavior in Code panel and in
Design panel, Property Inspector, Horizontal Rules, etc.
-
VIP: What happens in Dreamweaver
when you type the LESS THAN symbol? Here is
what you need to study and try in order to be able to answer this question
correctly.
Test One:
Study guide/Outline of
topics for Oct 8 Wednesday exam.
Note about Class 18 - October 6th
review of
Excel VBA Cells(row, column) and For i and For Each theCell loops.
Class 18 extensive review of
Excel and VBA and loops and Cells and HOME ON THE RANGE song.
Visual Basic for Applications:
Birthday macro to learn Excel
VBA macro concepts and
coding. Does NOT work with many browsers, so try Internet Explorer
Web Browser if you have trouble with the Microsoft PowerPoint web
published
presentation.
Excel VBA Birthday and Loops
practice, including user defined functions - Friday, October 3rd.
Racing Rectangles using VBA macro
programming.
Creating
Image
Maps using Dreamweaver to define the hotspots on a graphic.
Friday, September 19th, 2008 lab class.
Wednesday 09/17/2008 Class #9: Review of and practice with Photoshop
gradients and Edit << Stroke, Dreamweaver and HTML tags and looking at
the PAGE SOURCE for
several example web pages.
Wednesday, September 17th Dreamweaver with
Photoshop created Background (Gradient from Yellow to Purple) example.
See the ls (LiSt files), ls -l, cd (change directory to the dw folder),
mkdir (mAkE dirRECTORY = mkdir) to make the dw directory, and pwd commands
on sunny.uni.edu too.
Assignment One Preview: Photoshop
and Dreamweaver and sunny.uni.edu, along with screen captures of
either DW or PS GUI cropped using PS and exported as .jpg or .gif to help
you and others learn more DW or PS.
What does PREVIEW mean? It is NOT yet officially assigned, although you
can certainly find enough already explained to get started.
Dreamweaver example page:
Video Tutorials, but be
sure to check out the
link to H2O.html
which has content about
sunny.uni.edu and animation and
CyberDuck
(Macintosh) and SSH
Secure Shell, etc.
Email ASSIGNMENT: Answer
these
questions before Wednesday's class.
Photoshop assignment:
Fireworks, Dreamweaver, and
sunny.uni.edu on Friday in StudioIT TWO, ITT 136 computer lab.
This is a CHANGE from StudioIT 3 for this Friday, 09/12/2008 only.
DREAMWEAVER: Class #2
Example
with problems intentionally left in.
Class #4 Dreamweaver, Flash
and sunny.uni.edu, including link to Dreamweaver Site Definition
for uploading to your www.uni.edu/yourUNIuserID web site.
Friday, September 5th:
Video
Workshops for Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, Photoshop, and other
Creative Suite 3 (CS 3) products.
Please watch/read the Creating links Video Workshop:
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Select a Product: Dreamweaver CS3
Select a Topic: Getting started
Title: Creating links 04:28
The video is 4 minutes and 28 seconds long.
You can also Read the tutorial (HTML) and read along with what it
covers instead of or in addition to watching/listening to it.
Please do the Adding images Video Workshop:
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Select a Product: Dreamweaver CS3
Select a Topic: Getting started
Title: Adding images 04:38
The video is 4 minutes and 38 seconds long.
You can also Read the tutorial (HTML) and read along with what it
covers instead of or in addition to watching/listening to it.
Please watch/read the two videos to prepare for week #3 of class.
Anchors and IMG SRC image tags are a good way to start getting a better
handle on Dreamweaver and on HTML.
Friday, September 5th: Video Workshops
for Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, Photoshop, and other Creative Suite
3 (CS 3) products.
We will do sunny.uni.edu on Friday, September 12th.
We did NOT get to sunny.uni.edu uploading Dreamweaver web sites today
(Sept 5th).
Adobe
Photoshop CS3 Extended free 30 day trial download. If the previous
link does not work, try this one: Adobe Photoshop CS3
Extended Free Trial.
The two books we will be use (REQUIRED: One on Adobe CS 3
(Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, Photoshop) and OPTIONAL RECOMMENDED: One
on
Excel VBA macros) are listed below:
Note that NO previous experience with Excel or with graphics/web
publishing software is required.
REQUIRED:
Adobe
CS3 Web Workflows - Building Web Sites with Adobe Creative Suite 3
The book is not published until June 10th of 2008, but will be my choice
unless it is not up to the usual Wiley book publisher high standards.
It is currently priced at $29.69 at www.amazon.com,
and is listed at $30.36 at Barnes and Noble (member price).
There will be a special emphasis placed up
Adobe Fireworks in the
810:022 class in the fall of 2008.
RECOMMENDED:
Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Visual Basic for Applications Step by Step
(Paperback with CD-ROM)
Cost: $29.99 ($19.79 at Amazon.com)
Author: Reed Jacobson
Publisher: Microsoft Press (May 16, 2007)
ISBN-10: 073562402X
ISBN-13: 978-0735624023
Book Description
Work at your own pace through the easy numbered steps and practice
files on CD, and master the fundamentals for using VBA to create custom
software solutions and automating tasks in Excel 2007--no experience required!
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You'll learn how to automate spreadsheets, write your own functions and
procedures, and customize menus and toolbars.
You will learn how to write a racing rectangle game in Excel VBA, and
a word guessing game like Wheel of Fortune.
You will learn how to animate WordArt objects and other graphics.
You'll discover Excel Objects, including workbooks, range objects,
graphics, and PivotTables. Plus, you'll learn how to chart data from
databases and other information sources.
Past nine year's 022 web pages.
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