Placement Last Two Weeks

The last two weeks on the placement have flown by, i think that has been the time since I last posted on here. It has been all about this RSS widget and making sure that it works and that it does everything that it needs to.

However it does seem that it is all going to be about this widget for the length of my placement. Even though it has just been one project, which would take an experienced programmer a few hours, it has taught me a lot. Especially about Flash.

Before starting it, my Flash skills were ropey at the very least, making simple animation and programming the game for my Second year project taught me the structure of Actionscript. However this widget has allowed me to jump deeper into flash and more importantly Actionscript 3.
AS3 is a complete change to AS2 with many of the code structure of AS2 being wiped, which was what I coded the game in. However now that AS3 has slowly grown on me, the changes Adobe have made seem like they had to be made.

Working in an agency also brings with it differences between working at home as a freelancer, which I have heard that some of my coursemates have done.

Also a lot of fun has had in the office with banter flying around between employees which you certainly would not get if you worked from home on a placement. Overall with a week left to go, i have really enjoyed challenging myself and know that my knowledge has grown of action script thus increasing my confidence for the final major project.