This week you will work, for the first time, with an Interactive timeline. We will use ActionScripting 3.0
Action Script 3.0 should be the type of project you create, NOT an HTML5 Canvas project.

Many of you wanted to have something happening (an animation) AFTER the button was pressed and not limited to the user holding the button.
This week we are going to work with the structure that facilitates just that.

You need to understand how to "name a button" by entering the name in the properties panel of a button already on Stage. You also need to get familiar with functions, how to declare them and name them in the script.

Programmers regularly work with functions to organize their scripts. For us this is a difficult concept.
It makes it even more difficult the fact that functions are use to simplify the code when you have "a list of tasks to accomplish",
but our buttons are right now doing one thing at a time, so using functions is actually complicating our job as beginners.
Later on, when you do much more complex projects, you will see the benefit of functions.
Right now your job is to memorize the structure of the code :(

You also need to pay attention to Flash's "ready-made" functions. They are called "methods", and those are the "Timeline actions" we constantly use in flash.

Stop()
Play()
gotoAndPlay()
gotoAndStop()
nextFrame()
previousFrame()