Week 3

This weeks lecture was on HCI, HCI i didnt know anything about before i went to the lecture which meant i learned alot about the topic from the lecture. We looked at different interfaces and different websites and how they used different interfaces and the advantages and disadvantages of this. HCI stands for Human- Computer Interaction. I found it is all about how the computer and the user interacts using periferals such as the monitor and keybaord etc... so the use of a certain type of interface on a website such as flash on the sterophonics website can be good but only if your users have flash on their computer.
The tutorial this week i really enjoyed we did shape tweening which was where i made the shape number one into shape number two which was animated this tutorial allowed me to see a different part of flash which i have not experienced before. i found the worksheet to help us was very helpful and i had a lot of fun playing with flash, since knowing how to use the shape tweening part of flash. im enjoying these flash classes because i am learning more and more about flash which i never really looked at before. There is so much on the internet which is all flash i never realised how much of it was flash. And these flash tutorials are interesting aswell as useful.
Most games on the internet these days are using flash, below there a link to a website of games which are made in flash.
http://www.flash-game.net/
There is also another web site which people from around the world post their flash movies they have made to, the link is shown below
http://www.bestflashanimationsite.com/archive/video/

Week 2

I really enjoyed this weeks lecture, i learned alot, in the lecture we got taught flash, how to use the time gaps and also we got shown a flash movie where the movie allowed the user to move a mouse over a frog and you an disect the frog, it was very graphic and very impressive. It obviously toke alot of time in order to do it and i never thought that a flash presentation could be so grapic. The lecture in general was very enjoyable and was not boring by any means. the lecturer was able to keep everyones attention by the impressiveness of the flash movie examples she was showing us. In the tutorial got to play with flash, this was enjoyable because i have used flash before but only brefily, so being able to use it more in the tutorial was good because it allowed me to use parts of flash which i havent experienced. I was a bit put off by making a blog, but i am adjusting to the idea and am having fun writing these blogs. I have found 2 links to useful flash websites which i have posted with this blog.
http://www.w3schools.com/flash/default.asp
http://www.echoecho.com/flash.htm

Week1

This week i found very tasking as i had to adjust to university life, this was very tasking as i had to get use to the way the lectures teach and also how to take notes efficently and also in a way i could understand. I found enrolment very tasking though, the queues were very long and could take up to an hour in order to get to the registration part and also to get our enrolment cards. i am feeling that i am going to enjoy university life, and also enjoying making new friends and settling into university life.