FIT or SVA for Flash
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- Pupsipu0
what exactly are you planning on learning? Coding?
- spookykat0
If your talking about realistically, I want to be able to make a well designed website on my own. Dream wise, I would say the stuff BigSpaceship does. I'm starting from scratch right now; with just a degree in Graphic Design.
- Pupsipu0
what does a well designed website have to do with learning Flash?
Maybe you mean make a usable/working/good little flash site, and for that there is FlashCatalyst now, puts many annoying Flash website creation problems into a GUI so you don't have to code as much.
As far as Big Spaceship, they have teams of developers and designers. Developers write a lot of fancy code, thousands of lines of it, it took me 2 months with CJ at FIT to get started coding. Then another 3 months in another class once a week, then 3-4 months of coding on my own all summer to make a really basic flash xml gallery site. Then at a flash site making design company I couldn't keep up with the developers.
If you're a designer and you get a job at some place like Big Spaceship, you'll probably stick to being a designer, and do the easy part of making well designed websites.
- letters20
Wherever you go – don't go to a school to learn programs. Programs can be learned in a book. Go where they can teach you to think.
- spookykat0
I still need to learn the basics, whether or not you can design, people won't hire you just for your design abilities alone. The technical part would be at least knowing how the process is done.
- letters20
the technical part you're referring to has nothing to do with the process of design. It has to do with the implementation of design.
- ok_not_ok0
Go to school for design and study programming on your own.
- PonyBoy0
get a book and watch some video tutorials...
... i blew $60k on 'gotoAndPlay("withYourself"); type instructors
- Pupsipu0
i went to FIT, there was only one teacher there who knew Flash/Actionscript coding. You shouldn't need a class to learn Flash animating, but if you do, there won't be anything more advanced than internet tutorials, and probably far less advanced since they cater to non-techy people.
Shouldn't be part of the decision really, by the time they let you learn Flash at FIT, professors may come and go.
- mikotondria30
yeh learn it yourself - that's all a teacher will guide you to do anyway - do you really want to progress at the speed of the slowest person in the class, and pay for the privilege ?
- spookykat0
I honestly can't sit and learn it without being distracted. I've had those prof at FIT, thats why I'm contemplating on which route to go.
- PonyBoy0
Dickhead comment:
So what you're saying is you need someone to hold your hand for 3 hours instead of slapping a little self-control into yourself w/the payoff being a load of cash still in your pocket and the self respect that 'YOU CAN DO IT!!'?- yes i need that spoon feeding, and its just a couple hundred for 1 classspookykat
- dMullins0
You are willing to go to college to learn one thing, and one thing only -- that being Flash, and essentially, AS 3.0 I assume -- for the cost of easily $15 - 20k a year?
And yet, you rationalize this by saying you can't sit still for an hour or two a day?
That's the worst logic I've ever heard, and it isn't going to strengthen your OOP skillz.
- ukit0
"Can't sit still for 3 hours and learn it myself"
Fair enough, but believe me the stuff you learn at school won't be the be all end all. You'll need to be able to teach yourself new stuff your whole career. Why not start now and save a few grand in the process?;)
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Have fun learning to use the pen tool in SVA/FIT.dMullins
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- ukit0
By the way, I love how we're berating a guy for wanting to go to school
- PonyBoy0
^^hahahah!!
- dMullins0
Solution:
Take $20k that you would have spent on school, use it to live/get-by for a year, while spending at least an hour to two hours a day/night learning AS3.0After a year of that, you will be light years ahead of whatever you would have learned in a formal upper institution -- which I can only imagine is how to navigate the new tools layout in CS4, and how to write a for or while loop.
- spookykat0
i get what guys mean tho ha