COMPUTER TECH. SKILLS

• RIA, Ajax, Flex, AIR
• Declarative vs. programming (MXML vs. AS)
• Flex SDK structure and contents
• Updating SDKs

• Introduction to Eclipse (Perspectives/Natures)
• Flex project types + Wizards
• Flex project structure
• Flex project properties + configuration files
• Flex file types + Wizards
• The design view
• The structure of MXML file + XML namespaces

• General information
• Conventions , Comments, etc
• OOP in AS3
• The 'new' operaor , literal instantiation, constructors 
• Packages + package functions
• Data types
• Native types + conversion
• Casting, type *, undefined, null
• AS3 operators
• Special operators: delete, rest, strict equality
• AS3 statements
• Getters & Setters
• Arrays (sparse, dense, associative, multi-dimensional)
• Objects and Dictionaries
• Strings and regexp

• Binding + Conditional binding
• Metadata
• Working with assets
• Usage of callbacks
• Usage of closures

• Component explorer
• Containers
• Layouts (absolute, relative, automatic)
• Data driven components

6. Events

• Basic concepts
• Event handling + properties + preventDefault
• Event flow stages
• Bubbling + Stop propagation
• Custom events + the clone method
• EventDispatcher and IEventDispatcher
• Loose coupling*
• Weak references

7. Collections and itemlist controls

• Sorting, Filtering
• Cursors
• Collection events
• Listbase classes
• List/TileList
• DataGrid
• The default renderers

8. Custom components

• Flex classes hierarchy and choosing the appropriate base class
• Combining MXML and AS
• Practical usage of Flex's lifecycle (Brief)

9. ItemRenderers & ItemEditors

• How renderers work
• The 'data', 'listdata' properties
• How editors work
• Cell editing events

10. E4X & Tree class

• E4X classes
• E4X operators
• E4X expressions (XPath)
• Tree class + default renderer

11. Data Services – Basics

• Asynchronous Communication
• HTTPService
• WebService
• AsuncToken
• The FleXmler serializer/deserializer*

• AS3 optimization
• Dynamic typing
• AS3 namespaces
• Functions, closures and the call method
• ByteArray
• Vectors

• Flex default wrappers
• Swfobject
• External Interface
• AS-JS bridge*

• Resource files
• Compile-time loading of locales
• The ResourceManager
• Changing Locale
• Runtime loading of locales
• Realtime creation of locales*

• CSS & Flex (Differences)
• Embedding and compiled CSS
• Compile-time loading of styles
• Styling using CSS/AS
• Proper usage of the StyleManager
• Runtime loading of styles

• What is a skin + Skin types
• Graphical skinning and the 9-slice scale
• Introduction to Programmatic skinning
• Introduction to the drawing with AS3*
• Graphics API*
• Drawing Explorers*

• View States
• Preloaders

• Effects
• Transitions
• Filters*
• Using the various explorers*

• Creating charts
• Drill-down
• Chart effects
• Legends, Overlays and other special features*

• Concurrency
• Messaging
• Pushing data and collaboration

• Deferred Creation
• Modules
• RSL's
• Application domains + Sub-Applications*

• FMS – Configuratiom , A/V from camera
• RTMP

• Video & Audio Coding in Flash
• Video Player
• Overlays

• MVC- What , Why, Application workflow
• Frameworks available
• Frameworks vs. Microframeworks
• Introduction to Swiz
• Autowire + Dependency Injection
• Mediate

• Practice MVC
• Mate or other platform

• MMS.cfg
• Flash's security sandboxes
• Policy files
• Preventing attacks
• Do's and Don'ts with flash.security.Security
• Flash Player 10 restrictions

• Living within a restricted environment
• How does the Flash player work
• Practical conclusion from the elastic railtrack theory
• The LayoutManager
• The flex component lifecycle methods and events
• callLater, ValidateNow functions