Actionscript is the object orientated coding language of Flash, I Refer to it as the the numbers and letters than form many a sleepless night. Actionscript is the backbone of all interactive creations, if you want to create all those fantastic multi layer interfaces, Flash Games and what ever else you can think of that involves a user interacting with some of your work then Actionscripts what you need to know.
So by the first paragraph you can easily see how vital a role a knowledge of Actionscript is to a Interactive Designer, but its one of those few things were your knowledge of this rather complex code is up to creative its all open source and that allows hours of experimentation for no cost which is fantastic and allows a creative thinking that I don't think is possible in the print media due to costs of printing.
But by no means is this an easy code to learn for the majority of us, there are some parts of to it which require the ability to use complex equations to predict the movement of objects etc, but dont let this scare you away from it, because for the most part when your coding up for a menu its just a very basic and repetitive coding. Which is not that stressful on the mind once you have figured the basics out.
So to wrap it up actionscript is vital to interactive designers and whilst some of the code is scary and confusing we just have to live with the complexities of it and just adapt the best we can because what is able to be achieved with the use of code and flash is limitless.
References
Interaction Design. (2008). Retrieved May 19, 2010, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction_design
Interaction Design Blog. (2009). Retrieved May 19, 2010, from
http://www.interactiondesignblog.com/
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Tidwell, J. (2005). Designing Interfaces. California, United States Of America, O'Rielly.
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