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Authorware Training: Advanced Authorware Training

• Single Student Price: $1035.00 [discounts available]
• Current Authorware Training Schedule
• Advanced Authorware Training Course Outline
• Contact us for information about registering for this course.

Overview

This 3-day Authoware course is designed to give you practical experience using Authorware’s variables and functions. During the course, you will build an interactive simulation of a personal digital assistant (PDA). Through this simulation you will be introduced to essential Authorware elements and techniques for creating robust, real-life applications. The objective of this class is more effective and efficient program development.

The class structure is similar to that of the Fast Track class: each lesson is followed by practice activities (brainteasers) that often have a “twist” or additional challenge.

The prerequisite for this class includes your completion of the Authorware Fast Track class or the equivalent experience using Authorware (typically 6-8 months or more). A solid knowledge of Authorware’s flowline and all icons is assumed, and familiarity with Functions and Variables is a plus.

Note that we try to schedule the Advanced classes as quickly after Fast Track as possible. This allows us to accommodate those students interested in mastering the program as rapidly as possible. Each class naturally builds on the other, and we employ many techniques to promote retention.

Course Outline: Authorware Advanced

Part 1:

• Creating the application in class: Personal Digital Assistant
• Further exploration of Authorware Variables, Functions, and Expressions
• Adding variability to Authorware navigations: conditional branching
• Power Switch: toggling on and off
• Checked button states, calculated path decisions, branching rules for perpetual response
• Displaying Variables and Functions: Digital Clock
• Date and time Variables, character functions, number formatting, dynamic updating Variables
• Brain Teaser #1: The Trumpet Lesson
• Mode Selection Switch: Positioning and moving objects on a path, Initial position on Path, PathPosition, Math functions (Round())
• User-defined Variables
• Organizing content with Frameworks and Navigations based on Variables
• Brain Teaser #2: The Monogram Shop

Part 2:

• Controlling digital movies: Analog Clock
• Importing Bitmap sequences, perpetual movies, variables for start and end frames
• Brain Teaser #3: The Lion & the Mosquito
• Positioning and layering objects: Map Navigator
• PositionX, PositionY, Conditional responses, Continue branching, Automatic
• When True Conditions, Direct to Grid Motions, layers
• Brain Teaser #4: The EKG
• Using external functions: Audio CD player
• Loading external functions from Adobe-supplied ucd files (CDPlay, CDPosition, etc., issues in updating external functions
• Using ActiveX controls: Personal Calendar
• Inserting ActiveX controls, Event response types, interpreting ActiveX option dialogues, manipulating properties and events
• Using Linear Lists: Calendar Notes
• Creating, adding to, reading from, and searching linear lists, Array(), ValueAtIndex(), AddLinear(), FindValue()

Part 3:

• Managing data in character strings: Phone Directory; linking to external files
• Character string line functions (GetLine, InsertLine, DeleteLine, LineCount), reading and writing external files (ReadExtFile, WriteExtFile), FileLocation, RecordsLocation
• Brain Teaser #5: Stars & Stripes
• False to True Conditional responses, Looping Animations, Overlapping()
• Brain Teaser #6: Checks & Balances
• Brain Teaser #7: Shopping List Assistant

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