IM2420 Fundamentals of Scripting Languages
Monday, June 30th, 2008
IM2420 Fundamemtals of Scripting Languages
Students develop and refine basic programming skills. Emphasis is placed on programming concepts including logic, problem solving, process flow and flowcharting, syntax and structures, and debugging and troubleshooting. Students will acquire skills needed to design, develop, and produce practical interactive applications. (Course Prerequisite: IM1480 Fundamentals of ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Session 1: Learn about and utilize basic HTML tags, including tables, in a web calendar of the current year. Our assignment for the week is to create a 12 month calendar for the year 2007. Each month must contain all the accurate days for the month arranged in a table ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Session 1: By the end of lab today your calendars are due. Make sure that your link on the drop off drive is there and working properly. If we have time we may look at a few of your calendar projects during the lab. These are not required presentations.
Stylesheets ...
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Sunday, July 27th, 2008
Session 1: Today we will cover anchor links or "page jumps", link targeting, and frames. Anchor links are used to jump to content within an HTML document. The most typical use is for navigating back to the top of a page where a lot of scrolling is required, or to ...
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Week 4 Reading:
Chapter 8 "Working with Stylesheet Files"
Chapter 17 "Forms"
Session 1: Today we will look at a variety of CSS layouts starting with a simple two column, fluid layout with a banner that spans both columns (see code example below). We will also examine 3 column layouts and static width ...
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Session 1: Today we'll be looking at a complete example of an XHTML form, similar to what is expected for the Interactive Form project. The form demo can be found here:
Form Demo
Once we have looked carefully at the form I will demonstrate how to use Javascript to pre-validate the input ...
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
Session 1: Today we will start developing the PHP required to process the information collected in our forms. PHP (PHP Hypertext Pre-processor) is a server-side scripting language that has been designed specifically for web application development. Using PHP will we collect the data from the form, validated any required fields, ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
Session 1: Let's finish working on our form projects today, so that we can move on to the next assignment that involves delving deeper into the possibilities of Javascript within web application design. We will be looking at several Javascript frameworks and then utilize JQuery to implement motion graphic elements ...
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Session 1: No class today (Monday, September 1, 2008) due to holiday.
Session 2: Today I'll be demonstrating how to enable a Javascript framework within an HTML document. We will also start looking at how to apply functionality that exists in the framework to our web applications, including content animation behaviors. ...
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Session 1: Let's continue examining JQuery behaviors and how we can apply them to our web applications. Also, here are the requirements for the mockups which are due before class starts on Session 2 of Week 9.
Mockup Requirements:
Three mockups of one page design are required for in class critiques on ...
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Session 1: Today we'll be discussing how things are going on your final projects, most of the day will be focused on individually answering questions and help with troubleshooting.
Session 2: Let try to continue to get a better understanding of how jQuery works and apply it to our finals.
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