SOFT6007 Classes 07.2 & 07.3

Students worked on the assignment.

I saw little evidence that students who missed the classes on JavaScript last week had adressed the gaps in their knowledge in the meantime.

Holiday

Monday 27 October a holiday in Ireland.

SOFT6007 Class 06.4 W

Nobody turned up to class

SOFT6007 Class 06.2 & 06.3 & 06.4 N

I asked students to look at the spec for the assignment so that I could answer any questions they might have.

We looked at JavaScript and I talked students through the Coin Toss & Dice Game examples.  I asked students to take a look at the code and made sure they understand it.

Students who understand the code should be able to extend it to make a slot machine.

Everybody left after two hours.

Slides: 2015-JS01b.pdf

SOFT6007 Assignment Spec update

I emailed an update of the spec to all students. The updated spec does not require a JavaScript game to be included.

SOFT6007 Slot machine images

These might be useful for the slot machine exercise:

SOFT6007 Class 06.2 & 06.3 W

I asked students to look at the spec for the assignment so that I could answer any questions they might have.

We looked at JavaScript and I talked students through the Coin Toss & Dice Game examples.  I asked students to take a look at the code and made sure they understand it.

Students who understand the code should be able to extend it to make a slot machine.

Slides: 2015-JS01b.pdf

SOFT6007 Class 06.1

We looked at how to do a three column layout in CSS.

It was very slow because the machine in the room was not cooperating. I will go over it again in the labs.

SOFT6007 Class 05.4 W

We looked at using Google Fonts to add an interesting font to the page.

SOFT6007 Classes 05.2 05.3 05.4 N

05.2 I asked students to experiment with different CSS properties. We looked at the font property shorthand again and I asked students to experiment with that. I asked students to experiment with relative sizes using em

05.3 We looked at classes and IDs and I asked students to colour code their timetables using classes

05.4 We used Google Fonts to add an interesting font to the page

SOFT6007 Class 05.2 & 05.3 W

05.2 I asked students to experiment with different CSS properties.

We looked at the font property shorthand again and I asked students to experiment with that. 

I asked students to experiment with relative sizes using em

05.3

We looked at classes and IDs and I asked students to colour code their timetables using classes

SOFT6007 Class 05.1

We looked at CSS. I stressed the importance of keeping the content and styling information separate and told students to never used embedded nor inline styles.

SOFT6007 Class 04.2 & 04.3 & 04.4

Students worked on coding up the form.

We had a brief introduction to CSS and students styled the timetables they completed in previously

SOFT6007 Class 04.2 & 04.3 W

Students worked on coding up the form. Most are done now or nearly done.

We may move on to something new in the next class.

SOFT6007 Class 04.1

We looked at semantic tags and forms.

I mentioned that we will have an assessment soon.probably in Week 06. I will get back to students about this.

SOFT6007 Class 03.4 W

We had a rather hurried introduction to forms and students got stuck in and coded one up. 

We we have a more leisurely look at forms in the lecture next week

SOFT6007 Class 03.2 03.3 & 03.4 N

Most students completed the table exercises including those requiring colspan and rowspan.  Students did not finish them should complete them outside of class.

We had a brief look at forms and I gave out a printout with different kinds of inputs. We will look at these more closely in the lecture next week.

I asked students to complete a form exercise. (see below)

SOFT6007 Form Exercise

Code a HTML page with a  form for a computer club

Join page containing a form

• Parent's full name
• Parent's Email
• Child's name
• Age of child (7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15, or 16)
• Tick a box if they are willing to volunteer
• Do they own a laptop computer?
• Do they own a raspberry PI?
• Prove they are not a computer – choose their favourite colour
• Submit and Reset buttons

·         Use http://atlantis.cit.ie/displayvalues.php to verify that your form sends the data from the form to the server

SOFT6007 Class 03.2 & 03.3 W

I asked students to modify the timetables completed last week to account for double classes. This didn't take very long, But a few students didn't do the timetable last week and so had to first catch up.

I asked student to code the exercise we did class on Monday.

Only 6 students turned up to class this morning.

I asked students who were done to take a look at HTML forms. We will be looking at forms next.

In future we will not wait for students to catch up, Students who miss a lecture or practical session will be expected to figure out what happened and catch up in their own time,.

SOFT6007 Class 03.1

I gave a speech about attendance.

We did a quick review of tables in HTML and then I explained colspan and rowspan.

I gave students an exercise to complete in class in groups.