House of Choy

This week I’m working on a new Flash project - we’re creating a new eLearning activity that has people dragging and dropping different parts of a process into a sequence. After the sequence is complete, the learner can then click each part of the process to launch an explanatory animation or video (depending on what decide to use for this piece), followed by one or more questions.

Because I’m still fairly new to the OOP approach and AS 3.0 (I’ve created custom classes before, but still used a largely procedural approach to coding AS 2), I decided to use Mindjet MindManager to help me plan out the different classes needed in this activity. So far, I love it! It allows me to add text markers that I can customize to indicate the super class that each class is extending, as well as the container object that it will be instantiated in. I’m also using it to draw out relationships between the various classes.