Thursday, March 26, 2009

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.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Business as Usual next Monday

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

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

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

Monday, March 23, 2009

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

Thursday, March 19, 2009

SOFT6007-DCOM Web Dev 28

Students continued working on the JavaScript exercises.

We will move on next week.

Monday, March 16, 2009

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

Thursday, March 12, 2009

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.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

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.