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Varanasi Adobe Flex Users Group

V-Flex -The Varanasi Adobe Flex Users Group, is a community for developers which aims at spreading awareness about Flex , sharing knowledge about this platform amongst themsleves, and giving initiative to new developers to participate in this community by holding workshops and competitions at different levels in Varanasi.

GumboTube: YouTube for your Desktop

problem statement

Create an mp3 and flv player for the desktop, which should have the following features:

  • The ability for users to browse files on the filesystem and select an mp3 or flv file to play.
  • There should be an option to play and pause the file running currently and also to increase and decrease the volume of the player.
  • It will be good if features of a playlist are also given
  • Also, if you want you can give users an option to save their playlist in csv or xml format.

prizes

  • There will be a total of 15 prizes of worth Rs.8500.
  • 1st prize iPod shuffle.
  • Fourteen 2GB pendrives for the next best 14 entries.
  • Free IEEE membership(worth Rs.1300) for the best entry from first year.
  • The prizes will be presented by Professionals from Adobe during the second workshop which is to be held during the fourth week of Feb.

deadline

The entries are supposed to be given before 11:59 pm on the 30th of Jan.

format for the entries:

zip your project folder and send it as an attachment to coordinator.flexdevs.acm@itbhu.ac.in with the subject VideoPlayer<_yourname><_institute><_branch><_year>

resources

future-events

  • Problem statement for Gumbo Rumble will be released on 25th Jan. Registrations for this event will begin from 15th Jan.
  • An advanced level workshop by Adobe Flex Professionals in the last week of February.

past events


Workshop on Introduction to ActionScript 3.0 and using OOP in Flex

19th January 2010

A workshop cum doubt clearance session was conducted on "Introduction to ActionScript 3.0 and using OOP in Flex" on 19th of Jan'10 from 5:30 to 7:30 at F-7 lecture hall in association Adobe Inc. ,IT-BHU ACM Student Chapter and IEEE BHU Students’ Branch. 146 students of IT-BHU attended the workshop out of which 105 were from 1st year.


Here is a brief outline of the topics covered in the workshop:

  • The students were introduced to the programming constructs of ActionScript 3.0 with the help of example programs.
  • They were taught how to use API documentations of ActionScript efficiently.
  • Efficient use of the Flex Builder IDE for debugging the application.
  • Useful programming practices.
  • Apart from this the organizers also attended to the problems of the students personally.
  • Discussion about the event Gumbo Rumble.Discussion about the event Gumbo Rumble.

Click here to go to the photo gallery of the workshop.


A beginners workshop on Web and Dekstop Application Developement using AIR 2.0

9th January 2010

A workshop was conducted on "Introduction to Application Development using AIR 2.0" on 9th of Jan'10 from 2.30 to 4.30 at G-8 Department of Electrical Engineering in association Adobe Inc. ,IT-BHU ACM Student Chapter and IEEE BHU Students’ Branch. 249 students attended the workshop which included 8 students from outside IT-BHU. There were 169 students from the 1st year ,32 from the second ,31 from the 3rd year and 17 from the 4th year


Major attraction of the workshop was the flv player , which was created by the students within 20 minutes.

Here is a brief outline of the topics covered in the workshop:

  • What is V-Flex ?
  • RIA: Evolution
  • As a student how will I be benefitted ??
  • RIA development - tools
  • Flash Player
  • AIR 2.0
  • Actionscript / MXML
  • Flex
  • Why AIR 2.0 for application development
  • Usage of AIR in Industry today.
  • Lets develop some applications
  • Video Player in 20 minutes for desktop
  • Discussion on applications like chat application for LAN, sound recorder etc.
  • Conclusion
  • Details of an open software development competition

Check out the media gallery of the workshop and its video.

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contact

In case of any queries contact us at coordinator.flexdevs.acm@itbhu.ac.in

You can also contact us at:

Neeraj Kumar
+91-9369-031-633
+91-9235-106-978
neeraj.kumar.cse06@itbhu.ac.in

Rahul Verma
+91-9451-364-179
+91-9369-138-723
rahul.verma.cse06@itbhu.ac.in


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