Welcome to week 1 of Interactive Animation

Handouts:
ADV3662_HitchingsSyllabus
ADV662-ProjectOverview

Class Files:
lesson-week1

Resource Sites
Inspiration

• Communication Arts: www.commarts.com
• Webby Awards: www.webbyawards.com/webbys (look for ‘Interactive Advertising’)
• The One Club: www.oneclub.org/os (click the ‘One Show Interactive’ button and look for winners in the ‘banners dynamic’ category)

Tutorials

• Codeacdemy: www.codeacademy.com
• Mozilla Developer Network’s Javascript Area: www.developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript
• Khan Academy Computer Science (javascript-based) http://khnaacademy.org/cs
• jQuery docs: http://docs.jquery.com/Main_Page
• Lynda: www.lynda.com

Tools

• Adobe Edge Animate
• Dreamweaver
• TextWrangler (free for Macs) – general purpose editor for HTML and Javascript
• Notepad++ (free for PC) – general purpose editor
• The Firefox Firebug extension
• The Google Chrome

Homework

• Read handouts above
• Start to research your topic
• Practice Exercise