Flash Programming for the Social & Behavioral Sciences: A Simple Guide to Sophisticated Online Surveys and Experiments
Adobe Flash is one of the most popular languages for animated web content, and recently social and behavioral scientists have started to take advantage of it to collect data online. Flash Programming for the Social and Behavioral Sciences: A Simple Guide to Sophisticated Online Surveys and Experiments is a unique, step-by-step guide to using Adobe Flash to develop experiments and other research tools. Each chapter presents a set of techniques required for one aspect of programming an experiment, with students following instructions in italics and working through the code included in the text. Most chapters end with an exercise to put the newly learned techniques into practice.
Chapter 1: The Flash Interface
Chapter 2: ActionScript Basics
Chapter 3: Navigation
Chapter 4: Working With Text and Keystrokes
Chapter 5: Presenting and Storing Information in Arrays
Chapter 6: Questionnaire Tools
Chapter 7: Condition Assignment and Randomization
Chapter 8: Using Timers and Recording Reaction Time
Chapter 9: Saving Data
Chapter 10: Putting Your Program Online
