[CoLoCo] Is creating something in flash == programming?

[Scott Scriven]

* Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org> wrote:
> Can anyone clarify Flash's standing in the programming world?

It's somewhere between double-clicking and assembly language.  :)

The definition of programming is pretty loose...  technically, 
any time you tell a computer to do something, you're programming 
it.  Even if you just drag a file icon to a trash icon.

Intuitively, that doesn't feel like capital-P Programming, since 
you're basically just invoking a recipe someone else made.  
There's no effort involved.  It's just filling in the blanks.  
It's like adding hot water to a cup-o-soup and calling it 
cooking.

But at some level, you're going to have to rely on the work of 
others as a basis for a program.  You just have to decide which 
ingredients are acceptable, and which are just too 
pre-fabricated.

> both are done in Flash. According to the rules, the code is to 
> be entered "one character at a time on a keyboard" and they 
> can't use an authoring tool.

Would it be out of the question for you to get a copy of the 
source files, and review the textual portions?  You could judge 
the quality of the parts which follow the rules, and mostly 
ignore the rest.  Maybe people could even show you part of the 
process they used to create the programs, so you can see how much 
they created and how much was already there.


-- Scott