The textbook homework due May 1 will be from the CS4 textbook, Chapter 14, “Building Stuff”. Those of you working in the CS3 textbook need to send me an email requesting the chapter and I will send you a PDF. 

This chapter contains some very rich exercises that will be time-consuming but very valuable. You are warned to PLAN AHEAD, especially given that Project 3 is also due on May 1.

Complete the chapter and turn in the following five exercises:

• Beach Trip exercise, pp. 583-588;
• Movie preloader, pp. 588-590;
• XML-based slide show, pp. 591-598 [CS3 textbookers will find this exercise very familiar];
• MP3 player, pp. 598-622 (NOTE… if the song titles aren’t appearing after you complete the soundID3Handler at the top of p. 620, replace the mp3 files in the “example” folder with those from the “Complete” folder… the files in the “Example” folder do not have ID3 tags assigned to them);
• Video controller, pp. 622-632.

The sample files, which weigh in at a whopping 200MB, are available at http://www.foundationflashcs4.com/sample-files.html