{"id":112,"date":"2009-10-31T00:36:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T00:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/?p=112"},"modified":"2013-12-31T15:54:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T15:54:32","slug":"the-tortoise-and-actionscript-3-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/2009\/10\/the-tortoise-and-actionscript-3-0\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tortoise and ActionScript 3.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-70\" title=\"HU-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/HU-logo.jpg\" alt=\"HU-logo\" width=\"240\" height=\"261\" \/>A while ago, I mentioned that I had written up a syllabus for my own course in programming which centred largely around C++ and then later on elements of ActionScript 2.0.\u00a0 Needless to say this was a dismal failure and never quite got off the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever I&#8217;m studying something or have something quasi-professional that needs doing, pretty much anything else in the world becomes more interesting and appealing to me.\u00a0 I understand this is not a phenomenon unique to me and it was an ongoing joke in a previous house that I lived in that you could tell when a lot of us had essay or project deadlines because the place was spotlessly clean.\u00a0 This instinct to do something other than what my brain things it SHOULD be doing triggered around about the time I had something in my hands that looked vaguely like a course syllabus.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, in this case, I had the last laugh over my bloody minded brain, as the poor thing jumped on to something different but that is in the same field and has instead for the last few days been trapped in a prison made of Flash and ActionScript 3.0, one of the programming languages that powers flash.<\/p>\n<p>When I have something worthy of publication I will of course share, but for now I shall just have to state how much I&#8217;m enjoying finally getting some programming knowledge under my belt.\u00a0 Up until now, it&#8217;s been like my dutch:\u00a0 I understand more than I can speak, but I don&#8217;t understand much.\u00a0 Now, my programming is at the level whereby I could probably reliably ask for directions to the railway station, even if I won&#8217;t necessarily understand the answer given to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago, I mentioned that I had written up a syllabus for my own course in programming which centred largely around C++ and then later on elements of ActionScript 2.0.\u00a0 Needless to say this was a dismal failure and never quite got off the ground. 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