On this page we provide links to the materials authored by Barbara Kaskosz of the University of Rhode Island and Doug Ensley of Shippensburg University. Those materials are addressed to Flash developers in ActionScript 3.0 and ActionScript 2.0. Some of the materials provide source code to the mathlets posted on the Flash Mathlets page. If you are interested in Flash development, this page is for you. If you are looking for ready to use applets, click on the link For Students and Instructors below.

Thanks to the sponsorship from the National Science Foundation and the Mathematical Association of America, we have established a forum and a resource center for educators interested in Flash development at the Digital Classroom Resources of the Mathematical Sciences Digital Library -- MathDL:
 

Be sure to visit both. Contribute and publish your work there.

ActionScript 3 Tutorials

Check out a new and growing collection of ActionScript 3.0 and Flash CS3 materials at our new site Flash & Math:

     ActionScript 3.0 Tutorials at Flash & Math

(Flash Player 9 or higher is required to display ActionScript 3 content.)

If you are looking for ActionScript 2 tutorials, visit our site:  MathDL Flash Forum Learning Center.

Developement Articles at the MathDL Flash Forum

Below are links to articles by Doug Ensley and Barbara Kaskosz published in MathDL Flash Forum. In these articles, we provide custom classes, including mathematical expressions parser, and easily customizable templates with complete source code. We hope the materials in the atricles will help you create your own Flash applications.

     ActionScript 3.0 / Flash CS3

• Flash Tools for Developers: 3D Graphers in ActionScript 3   The article provides a package of custom classes in ActionScript 3.0 and templates for graphing parametric surfaces and graphs of functions of two variables.
  
• Flash Tools for Developers (AS3): Graphing Curves on the Plane   The article provides a package of custom classes in ActionScript 3.0 and templates for you to create your own customized graphing applications.
  
• Simple 3D Drawing in AS3   The article contains fla files, source code, and examples explaining how to create and render 3D objects ActionScript 3.
  
• ActionScript 3 Tutorials The article contains fla files, source code, and pdf guides for a large and growing collection of ActionScript 3.0 sample mathlets.
  

     ActionScript 2.0 / Flash 8

• Visualizing Regions for Double Integrals  This article (with Lewis Pakula) contains fla file, and the complete source code for a mathlet that draws regions of integration in polar and rectangular coordinates corresponding to the limits of integration entered by the user. The mathlet provides practice problems as well.
  
• Flash Tools for Developers: Matching Formulas to Data  The article contains fla files, source code, two templates, and a guide on how to create your own similar applets. A parser for data points entered in differnt formats is provided.
  
• Flash Tools for Developers: Truth Tables and Logic  The article contains fla files, source code, templates of various appearance and functionality, and a guide on how to create your own customized applets concerning propositional forms. A parser for logical expressions is given.
  
• Flash Tools for Developers: 3D Function Grapher  The article contains fla files, source code, templates of various appearance and functionality, and a guide on how to create your own customized 3d function grapher in Flash.
  
• Flash Tools for Developers: Parametric Curves on the Plane  Download fla files, source code, two templates, and a guide on how to create your own Flash parametric curves grapher.
  
• Flash Tools for Developers: Function Grapher  The article contains three different templates, complete source code, and a guide on how to create a function grapher in Flash.

Upcoming Workshops and Presentations

• A talk "Steal This Applet!" joint with Doug Ensley (Ensley presenting) at Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, CA,
  January 6-9, 2008.    Click for abstract
   
• A panelist in a panel discussion: Dueling Platforms: Java vs. Flash, at Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, CA,
  January 6-9, 2008.    Click for description
   
• The 20th Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (ICTCM), March 6-9, 2008, San Antonio, TX. A computer mincourse by Doug Ensley and Barbara Kaskosz: Steal This Applet!
   
• PREP Workshop: Flash in the Valley -- Creating Mathlets with Adobe Flash, June 9 -13, 2008, Shippensburg University, PA.   (Co-organizer.)

Recent Workshops

Recent workshops on developing Flash materials for mathematics and sciences. Email bkaskosz at math.uri.edu if you'd like us to send you workshop materials.

• Flash at the Beach: Creating Mathlets with Adobe Flash -- PREP workshop, URI, June 11- 15.
  
• Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, January 5-8, 2007. A minicourse by Doug Ensley and Barbara Kaskosz: Creating visual mathematics applets using Flash programming.
  Click for an abstract
  
• The 19th Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (ICTCM), February 15-18, 2007, Boston, MA. A computer mincourse by Doug Ensley and Barbara Kaskosz: Flash programming for creating mathlets