SOFT6008

Students worked on the various assignments.

Students should send Colin a URL with links to each of the assigments when they are done.

SOFT6007 (ITM) 09

Students worked on Lab No.7 (from Rob)

FontTester.com

FontTester.com is a useful site for showing the effects of different fonts and settings.

Easter Break

This is the last week before the Easter break. Classes will resume on Monday 20 April.

XHTML 1.0 Compliance

You need to include certain headers in your xhtml documents if you want them to be fully compliant.

you can compy and paste these headers from this sample page.

Update: 27/04/2009
The code used by YouTube to embed videos in your page is not XHTML1.0 compliant. You may, if your really want to, include YouTube videos in your site without penalty. HOWEVER, your code must be otherwise XHTML1.0 compliant. It might be hard for you to enure that it is compliant, because the YouTube code might cause confusion. But if you are prepared to accept the risk, you may do so. My advice is to avoid the risk and leave the videos out.

SOFT6007 EVCOM 10

We spent some time discussing registration issues. Some students who thought they were registered were not.

We discussed the specification for assignment 2.

We looked at Cascading Style Sheets.

notes:
www4n.pdf

SOFT6008 34 & 35

Students continued with their assignments

SOFT6007 DCOM WebDev 34 & 35

We discussed the specification for Assignment 2.

We looked at cascading Style Sheets.

Notes:
www4n.pdf

SOFT6007 Assignment 2 Specification

This assignment is designed to ensure that students have the minimum level of xhtml required to pass the module, while affording excellent students an opportunity to demonstrate their levels of skill.

Assignment
Build a multi-page website for a band using xhtml and CSS. Students may choose any real or fictitious band.

Requirements
The website must
• Be a minimum of 5 pages. The pages should be linked together.
• Include a navigation bar using either an image map or rollovers. Rollovers are better
• Be written in fully compliant xhtml. Use a validator to check it.
• Must use CSS for text formatting. Consider the font tag banned. Your body tag should have nothing else in it.

Copyright
• Students may use text and image that are not their own.
• Student may not use HTML nor CSS that is not entirely their own work.
• Student may not use code generation tools.

SOFT6008 33

Students worked away on the assignments.

We will do some new stuff after the easter break.

We added
Irish PPSNs
Spanish DNI numbers and
Euro banknotes
to the list of required assignments.

There will be no new required assignments. So that gives students an opportunity to get this module done and dusted over the break.

SOFT6007 DCOM Web Dev 33

Students took online class No. 14 JavsScript III. That's as much JavaScript as we are going to do.

SOFT6007 DCOM Web Dev 32

Students continued with the rollover exercise using the smaple images.

Students that were finished worked on a rollover of their own.

No news on Assignment 2 just yet. I need to co-ordinate with the lecturers teaching the other instances of this module.

Business as Usual next Monday

The proposed strike on Monday 30 March has been canceled / postponed. So we will have classes as usual.

SOFT6008 32

Students worked away on the various exercises.

SOFT6007 (ITM) 08

[No lab last week. 17 March Public Holiday]

We looked at Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

Notes:
www4n.pdf Beware: There are a few obvious typos

SOFT6007 EVCOM 09

We looked at javascript rollovers. Students made a simple rollover with just one images, and then a navigation bar with image slices in a table.


Images:
casadelgringo-left-bottom.jpg
casadelgringo-left-bottom-over.jpg
casadelgringo-left-middle.jpg
casadelgringo-left-middle-over.jpg
casadelgringo-left-top.jpg
casadelgringo-left-top-over.jpg
casadelgringo-right.jpg
casadelgringo-right-over.jpg

Class fisnised early (2020) because someone locked one of the two main fire exits.

SOFT6008 30 & 31

Students worked on the game assignment (mostly)

Apple JavaScript Coding Guide

The Apple JavaScript Coding Guide may proove a useful reference for students.

http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/ScriptingAutomation/Conceptual/JSCodingGuide/JSCodingGuide.pdf

SOFT6007 30 & 31

Students worked on getting rollovers to work and learned that JavaScript is very fussy.

Students worked on a navigation bar using 4 (x2) images stuck together in a table.

Images:
casadelgringo-left-bottom.jpg
casadelgringo-left-bottom-over.jpg
casadelgringo-left-middle.jpg
casadelgringo-left-middle-over.jpg
casadelgringo-left-top.jpg
casadelgringo-left-top-over.jpg
casadelgringo-right.jpg
casadelgringo-right-over.jpg

SOFT6008 29

We looked at check digits for user input validation. I found the whole thing so exciting that I kept going until 1220. The students were too interested polite to say anything.

SOFT6007 DCOM Web Dev 29

The projector in B217 was unreadable, so we abandonned that room and found an empty class somewhere else. Students should check next week's timetable in case we are lucky enough to make the move permanent.

We looked at some more JavaScript (case statement, arithmetic operators) and saw how to do a rollover.

Slides
JS01
JS02

SOFT6007-DCOM Web Dev 28

Students continued working on the JavaScript exercises.

We will move on next week.

SOFT6007 EVCOM 08

JavaScript

js01a.ppt

SOFT6008 26 & 27

Exercises

SOFT6007 DCOM1 Web Dev 26 & 27

Students worked on their JavaScript exercises.

SOFT6007 CA1 Results

The results of the first assessment are now available online. The last 4 digits of the student ID number provides an index in to the result.

40% was for the nested list and 60% for the image map.

This assessment was worth 20% overall.

I was disappointed by these results. It suggests that students are too used to working in copy & paste mode and are not keeping enough information in their heads. The student solutions for the nested list suggest that students do not fully grasp the structure of HTML documents.

SOFT6008 List of Exercises

Here is a list of exercises we've done so far. Each student must complete each of these. I will come looking for them.

• Time based image (eiffel tower)


• Rollover/li>
  
• Mobile phone bills (with visualization)


• Money counter


• Visual exchange rate


• Cookies


• UCLOO

SOFT6008 25

We discussed the specification for UCLOO.

UCLOO
Player starts with 100 CIT Pesos.

Player bets a stake on the oucome of 2 random cards.
A pair (e.g. Ace of Hearts and Ace of Spades) pays 3 times the stake. (e.g. player has 80 pesos. bets 10 pesos. wins. gets 30 pesos back. Now player has 100 pesos.)
A perfect pair (e.g. King of Spades and King of Spades) pays 12 times the stake.

There are 4 suits. You can use Spades, Hearts, Diamonds, and Clubs or Southern European suits or you can be creative.

There are 3 cards per suit (Jack, Queen, King, for exmaple).

That means there are only 12 different cards in total.

SOFT6007 DECOM1 Web Dev 25

We started our look at JavaScript

SOFT6007-DCOM1 Web Dev 24

Students were asked to make a colour chart in HTML with 30 colours. The chart should also display the HEX colour code.

SOFT6008 24

I missed the latest timetable change, and so turned up to class one hour late. Sorry about that guys. We're not having a great week.

Watch the timetable next week. Because I was told it was moving back again.

SOFT6008 22 & 23

{Monday 09 March 2009}

Colin wasn't feeling well so these two lab classes were cancelled.

SOFT6007-ITM LAb 06

Students worked on their frames exercise.

SOFT6007-EVCOM 07

We had an in-class assessment.

No student stayed to continue class afterwards so we called it a night early.

SOFT6007 DCOM Web Dev 22 & 23

We looked at the CMYK and RGB color systems and the RRGGBB system for HTML.

{Colin wasn't feeling well so he left at 1540}

SOFT6008 21

Nothing special today. Students worked away on the various exercises. Some students have a lot of catching up to do.

SOFT6007-DCOM 21

We went through the correct solutions to last week's in-lab assessment.

I'm out sick today 05 March 2009

SOFT6008 20

Only three students in class today. They worked on the various JavaScript exercises.

The cookies exercise really needs to be done in the stages I outlined. Otherwise your head will explode.

SOFT6007 ITM Lab 05

Imagemaps

Iberia
USA Cities & Grid

Slides www3t.ppt

COMP6023 DEADLINES

The in-class exam (30%) will be in September.

The deadline for the website (30%) is noon 14 August 2009. However the project must be approved by noon 01 May 2009. Students should propose ideas well in advance of this date. The maximum group size is 3 students.

The deadline for the written report(40%) is is noon 14 August 2009. However the paper topic must be approved by noon 01 May 2009. Students should propose ideas well in advance of this date.

No support will be available after 20 June 2009. So students are advised to have their work at an advanced stage by then.

SOFT6007-EVCOM 06

We looked how an image can be sliced and put back together in a table to make a navigation bar. Students make their own, using either an image of their choice or the hand image to slice. Or use an image of your own.

We saw how to upload a webpage with images to a hosting service so that the rest of the world can see it. index.html. case sensitive!!!!

Some students who were catching up worked on imagemaps. That was unfortunate because some students got confused between slicing and imagemaps. That was my fault. I must make that clearer in future.

There will be an in-class assessment next Monday.

SOFT6008 18 & 19

Cookies

SOFT6007-DCOM Web Dev 18 & 19

Exam

SOFT6008 17

We looked at some more JavaScript. Arrays, function

SOFT6007-DCOM Web Dev 17

We looked at how tables can be used to improve the layout of a webpage.