Ian Bogost is an academic videogame researcher, game designer, and educational publisher. Ian is Assistant Professor of Literature Communication and Culture at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he teaches and researches in undergraduate and graduate programs in digital media. He is also the founder of two companies, Persuasive Games, a game studio that designs, builds, and distributes electronic games for persuasion, instruction, and activism and Open Texture, a publisher of cross-media education and enrichment materials for families. He has over a decade of experience in digital media production for film, music, games, advertising, and eBusiness.
If you are a visual programmer working in environments like Visual Basic,
Delphi, REAL basic, or PowerBuilder, you may hesitate to take advantage of
the benefits of Flash because of concerns about learning a new, unfamiliar
environment. To show how easily you can transfer your existing knowledge to
Flash MX Professional, in this article I will explain how you can create a
simple web search application that queries the Google web API using SOAP web
services:
Visual Programming in Macromedia Flash
As a visual programmer, you may have already tried your hand at a previous
version of Flash - and been you were likely confused and overwhelmed by it.
Flash has never been more inherently complex than Visual Basic 6, Visual
Studio .NET, or Delphi, but it comes from a lineage of a... (more)
Ian Bogost is an academic videogame researcher, game designer, and educational publisher. Ian is Assistant Professor of Literature Communication and Culture at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he teaches and researches in undergraduate and graduate programs in digital media. He is also the founder of two companies, Persuasive Games, a game studio that designs, builds, and distributes electronic games for persuasion, instruction, and activism and Open Texture, a publisher of cross-media education and enrichment materials for families. He has over a decade of experience in digital media production for film, music, games, advertising, and eBusiness.
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