Understanding basic ActionScript 3 syntax

• Case sensitivity
• Dot operator and semi-colons
• Comments
• Parentheses, braces, and brackets
• Language keywords
• Literals
• Declaring variables and their data type
• Data type conversion
• Using language operators
• Mathematical operators and operator precedence
• Concatenation and assignment operators
  

Working with aggregate data

• Instantiating objects
• Creating and populating instances of the Array class
• Working with multi-dimensional arrays
• Manipulating arrays
• Working with generic objects
• Representing two-dimensional data with object arrays
• Populating components with arrays
  

ActionScript 3 Control Structures

• Manipulating String data
• Using String properties and methods
• Using the Alert component
• Importing a class
• Displaying a simple Alert
• Using Conditional statements
• Writing and testing comparative expressions
• Understanding logical operators
• Nesting conditional statements
• Using conditions to validate user input
• Using switch/case statements
• Creating Date objects
• Using Date class methods
• Working with iteration (looping) statements
• Using for, while, do..while, for..in and for..each..in statements
• Using break statements inside loops

Writing and using user defined functions

• Learning function statement syntax
• Function literal syntax
• Working with variables in functions
• Working with function arguments (parameters)
• Referring to arguments dynamically
• Returning data from a function
• Setting the access modifier of a function or variable
• Separating and including ActionScript and MXML files
  

ActionScript 3 Custom Classes

• Introducing Object Oriented Programming Terminology
• Writing a class definition
• Choosing and using the class name
• Packaging your class files
• Declaring class properties
• Controlling access to properties
• Assigning default property values
• Defining a class and creating objects from it
• Declaring class methods
• Controlling access to methods
• Encapsulating object data
• Understanding the Value Object design pattern
• Re-using code through inheritance
• Extending a base class
• Guaranteeing behavior with interfaces
• Writing and using an interface
• Persisting local data with Shared Objects
• Understanding static methods
• Storing data using the static SharedObject class