Making up for last week....

19/10/07 - 25/10/07
I missed last weeks Internet Applications Development tutorial, and completely forgot about my blog.... typical of me. But I suppose I should just get on with this weeks blog.

The lecture on Friday was based on shape tweening in Flash, which was easy enough to understand and follow (considering it was a Friday afternoon and everybody clearly just wanted to go to the union for a drink). We were told how to morph shapes while making it move backwards and forwards across the screen. If I remember correctly the example given was a circle morphing into a square, which although sounds quite straightforward would have been extremely difficult for me after missing last weeks tutorial and being a novice when it comes to Flash animation. We were also shown how to add keyframes, how to make gridlines appear to make lining the shapes up in different keyframes easier so that when it moved across the screen it moved in a straight line, along with other key features of Flash.

I was worried about the tutorial this week because of missing last week, but the document on blackboard was straightforward and was mainly based on what we did in the lecture, so I found it a lot easier than I thought I would. But I looked at the link given under "useful resources" for a bit of extra help....
http://www.w3schools.com/flash/default.asp
I think we could have chosen something besides what was given in the document to shape tween, but I thought I'd stick to the example given (shape tweening the word 'one' into 'two') and just changed the colours, added hints etc as shown in the document. After I'd finished, I still had about 20 minutes left so just started changing things around to see what I could / couldn't do with it. In the end I honestly think I'd gone a bit overboard with moving it around and adding hints to make the letters move around so I ended up just leaving it as it was originally. But I definately have got a better idea of what I'm doing now, so maybe the next one will turn out a bit better.

Overall, using Flash was a lot simpler than I originally thought. Taking into consideration that what we've actually done so far isn't extremely complex, I'm curious to see what I'm going to be able to do in the next few weeks. After being shown the examples of what can be done with Flash in the lecture, it made me realise how much time/effort actually goes into it and I don't think I'm ever going to be at that level, but I'd like to think I'd be able to do something like it!

First blog

Welcome to my blog!
I'm Hannah, I've just started Computer Forensics at the University of Glamorgan and this blog is mainly going to be based on my experiences here. The first week / enrollment was a bit stressful trying to find my way round etc but the nights out made up for it! But I'm really enjoying the course so far aswell, even though Maths is one of the modules it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.
Freshers week was amazing, meeting new people and drinking too much, definately lived up to my expectations even with the immense hangovers!