Shawn McCraw, of McCraw Designs, Guest Speaker.

It’s always nice to hear from someone who works in your chosen career, as a student. His or her experience, advise, and knowledge isn’t something that can be taught in a classroom; theirs is a data mine of trial and error, of career paths, first hand knowledge of dealing with clients, and of producing exciting creative work-that ultimately is about addresses a problem, while at the same time communicating the appropriate message, in a dynamic way, that generates value.

This is the modus operandi of Shawn McCraw, of McCraw Designs, who came to speak to a couple of classes of graphic and web design students, last Tuesday, 2/16/10, at my school, The Art Institute of Austin.

Created My First JavaScript Array. w00t!

I missed last weeks class due to a sinus headache (hate them), so I didn’t have the benefit of giving Gina a blank look and saying things like, “I’m confused,” or “What was that again?” Or the one question I really want to ask after this assignment, or actually a question I started asking myself during Flash class today is, “I really need some more back ground on syntax.”

So I downloaded the pdf of Gina’s lecture, which she thankfully emailed to me, and low and behold, a good portion covered syntax, score. I also decided to put my data augering skills to work and googled, “JavaScript Syntax” and came across this site,and they had a tutorial on JavaScript Syntax. The great thing about this tutorial site, and Gina’s lecture, is that they both ended with creating an array.

What is an aray? To quote the tutorial,

An array is a grouping of objects that can be accessed through subscripts. At its simplest, an array can be thought of as a list.