Welcome to week 1 of Interactive Animation
Handouts:
ADV3662_HitchingsSyllabus
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 prupose editor
- The Firefox Firebug extension
- The Google Chrome
Homework
Read: The 7 1/2 Steps to Successful Info Graphics