William M. Pegram
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Flash Project

The project counts for 20% of your final grade.  As a general rule, it will not improve your grade if you include things beyond the scope of this course. Also, whereas you may obtain a perfect score on homework assignments and exams just by meeting the technical requirements specified, the same is not true for the project. When I grade the projects, I will rank them, or sometimes group them, and projects of roughly equal quality receive roughly equal scores. What constitutes "better" is subjective but here are some of the elements:

1) Basic Web and FTP skills (10%) - Please create a folder on your website called project and put all the work related to your project inside of that. Create an index.html page inside of this folder; this index.html file should contain links to all swf files, the fla file, and the documentation file for your project. There should be no spaces in file and folder names. It would also be helpful if you put a link from the home page of your site to the index.html page inside the project folder.

2) Documentation and Flash Comprehension Skills (40%)- Create a document that describes in detail what you did. You may want to create this as a Word document in order to utilize Word's spelling and grammar checking features, but you can create it as an html file if you like. This document should be organized and detailed. It should describe what you did and the reasons for doing things the way you did. I will use this document in reviewing and trying to understand what you did in your project.

3) Flash Skills (50%) - Projects should have elements from various sections of the course such as the use of tools, tweening, bitmaps, buttons, movie clips, ActionScript, sound, form elements, etc. however no particular element is required. Don't be afraid to include something if it isn't working perfectly -- just explain the precise problem in the documentation. Don't feel compelled to put something in just because we covered it in the course.

Time requirements: I think an effort somewhere in the 4-8 hour range is appropriate. I would especially urge you to spend time on documentation. Project is due 10AM the day after the final to be submitted up on your website.

Revised: April 10, 2006