GD222 News - Spring 2008

This Fall, GD 222 will be offered online. We'll use Adobe Flash CS3 to create animations, banner ads, cartoons, and Web interfaces. Those of you who have Flash 8 or even Flash MX 2004 should be OK. I check e-mail fairly regularly, so let me know if you have any questions.

I will update the syllabus and schedule regularly, so please don't do any assignments early unless you check with me first. If you want to get started early:

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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. - William James.

Upcoming Conferences

Adobe FlashForward Conference, Boston, MA, Sept. 19-21, 2007

This is the largest Flash user conference in the world. I will not be able to attend, but I will try to post related events of interest as they occur.

Some of you may already be familiar with John Maeda's work, but many may not. He does some very interesting, very simple, interactive widgets. He seems to have a sufficient understanding of enough prototyping tools like Flash and PHP that he just creates these little 'ditties' of design simplicity. Honestly, some of them aren't that interesting (don't tell anyone I said that), but alot of them are, and there are so many! Check out his work at the following links:

http://www.maedastudio.com/

http://www.media.mit.edu/~maeda

http://lawsofsimplicity.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maeda

COMPUTER CLUB MEETING

Cuyamaca College has a computer club that meets regularly. I will post details about the club soon.

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COMPUTER CLUB MEETING

News sources include Newscan and Edupage