On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:25 PM, <flashcodersny@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> Today's Topic Summary
> Group: http://groups.google.com/group/flashcodersny/topics
> - Wednesday's Meeting - Isla and Mary Rosa Cook<#13a90cd708aea616_group_thread_0>[1 Update]
> - To AIR or Not to AIR <#13a90cd708aea616_group_thread_1> [3 Updates]
> Wednesday's Meeting - Isla and Mary Rosa Cook<http://groups.google.com/group/flashcodersny/t/ef0fa01ad089017e>
> Tyler Larson <tallty...@gmail.com> Oct 23 10:26AM -0400
> Tomorrow Mary Rosa Cook will be showing us a programming language for
> kids that she created in JavaScript.
> From Mary ...
> "A child starts learning to read and write at age 5. Why can’t they
> start learning to program then, too?
> I am making Isla, a first programming language for children.
> I’ll describe how I implemented the Isla compiler. I’ll describe the
> design of the Isla grammar. Why is there no punctuation? Why are
> expressions like sentences? How did I enable assignments, list manipulation
> and function calls in baby talk?"
> You can try Isla out here https://github.com/maryrosecook/isla
> You can learn more about Mary hear http://maryrosecook.com/
> I also recommend playing a game she is working on
> http://emptyblack.com/play.html
> Oct 31 No meeting - Halloween
> Nov 7 Oscar Trelles will talk about business!
> Nov 14th Lisa Larson-Kelly on state of the dis-union
> Nov 21st No meeting - Thanksgiving
> Nov 28th Colin and others on Starling
> Dec 5th open
> Dec 12th open
> Dec 19th Holiday Party
> Then we break until January 9th.
> To AIR or Not to AIR<http://groups.google.com/group/flashcodersny/t/319f69f744d2dbff>
> Mobile Apps <mobile.apps....@gmail.com> Oct 23 08:39AM -0400
> No thoughts?
> Tyler Larson <tallty...@gmail.com> Oct 23 09:38AM -0400
> For number one there are a few things to compare JavaScript frameworks
> but this project ( http://addyosmani.github.com/todomvc/ ) does
> something better than offer opinions on what is better. It try to recreate
> the exact same project over again in each framework and you can choose what
> style you like better.
> For the other question, I've never needed to do that but I found a few
> things by googleing,
> http://www.borisvanschooten.nl/blog/2011/05/01/a-mini-actionscript-3-...
> http://www.graniteds.org/confluence/display/DOC/3.+Gas3+Code+Generator
> http://www.jetdrone.com/post/1/29
> but these seem maybe a bad direction potentially,
> you can also go the Haxe route,
> this converts your ActionScript to Haxe
> http://code.google.com/p/haxe/source/browse/other#other%2Fas3hx
> then you can compile your Haxe to any platform http://haxe.org/including native Android
> But don't fool yourself none of these are going to be as good as if
> you wrote custom code for each platform.
> If your app doesn't need that and it is all very custom then you might
> be better off with something like Haxe.
> In terms of JavaScript I'm not sure I would recommend PhoneGap or
> something like that and converting your ActionScript into JavaScript and
> thinking it will work as nicely. If you want to go the JavaScript route, it
> is more work, you have to work on performance a lot, you have to think
> about things differently to get things working as they should and any auto
> conversion isn't going to give you that.
> The best thing you can do will be the hardest, every app doesn't have
> to be the best but auto conversion likely isn't going to get you what you
> want, the Haxe route might be the closest to that. Otherwise I might try to
> convince you to keep your app in ActionScript.
> -Tyler
> Thaylin Burns <thayli...@gmail.com> Oct 23 10:19AM -0400
> Right, converting from something like actionscript to Java for android
> you're going to possibly run into all sorts of issues with memory
> management and things that could be done better in Java rather than how
> they get ported out. The conversion is only as good as the person that
> wrote the converter. On the other hand, it's fairly easy (depending on
> the
> size of the project) to go through the code in AS3 and rewrite it for
> use
> in Android. Although that would really depend on the platform version
> you
> would like it to work in. Anything after Honeycomb(3.0) has a much
> better
> structure for animations which is quite similar to AS3 since I believe
> the
> guy that went onto that project use to work for adobe (don't quote me
> on
> that).
> Thaylin Burns
> http://www.thaylin.info/blog
> "Common sense is a sense that common man does not seem to have." -me
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