SOFT6008 Class 39

Students worked on trying to code the shopping cart. As usual progress varied considerably from student to student.

SOFT6008 Class 38

Students worked on getting to grips with cookies and the shopping cart concept.

SOFT6008 Assessment 2

Assessment 2 will be an in-class assignment. It will be in C128 at 1300-1500 on 03 May 2010.

I expect to provide more detail before then.

SOFT6008 Class 37 X

We did an extra class (just in case)

We thought a bit about how we might implement a shopping cart using a cookie to store a single string. The trick is designing the string in a way that it is easy to get desired information in and out of it.

video

SOFT6008 Class 37

We looked at onclick and innerHTML

example: increment.html

video

SOFT6007 Class 36

Today was fairly quiet. I helped a few students with their CSS. I get the feeling that the students don't really get CSS. I'll try to correct that, if it's not too late.

SOFT6007 Class 35 A

We looked at how to do a rollover in JavaScript

rollover

SOFT6007 Class 34 A

We looked at the code for the Coin Toss Game

coins.html

SOFT6007 Class 34 & 35 B

We looked at how to make a very simple game in JavaScript

coins.html

SOFT6007 Assessment Deadlines

Assessment 3 will be an on-class exercise that will reply heavily on the use of JavaScript. It will be an open book exam. You will be permitted to use any resources you wish, but may not communicate with anyone else.


Day Students

Assessment 2 Web Site is due on Tuesday 4 May by 1800. The 1700 class is an obvious slot during which to hand it up, but before then is fine too.

Assessment 3 In-class exercise will take place on Thursday 29 April. Group B 1100-1300 in IT2.3. Group A 1600-1800 in IT2.2. If you have a laptop please bring it.
If you already know that you cannot make this date for some good reason, let me know and it may be possible for you to take it with the evening students. (A sporting event of some kind, is not a good reason.)

Night Students
Assessment 2 is due on by 2100 Wednesday 28 April.

Assessment 3 will take place on Wednesday 05 May.

SOFT6007 Week 09

We agreed on 28 April as the deadline for the Assessment 2. Students should deliver the work to me on USB stick or CD during class on 28 April, or before.

Assessment 3 will be an in-class exercise on the evening of 5 May.

We looked at Cascading Style Sheets, had a break, then looked at JavaScript.

SOFT6007 Forms

The form for Assignment 2 should send the data using GET to http://atlantis.cit.ie/displayvalues.php

SOFT6007 Class 33

I briefly discussed the results of assessment 1.

We started to look at JavaScript.

Video

Slides Time Based Greeting Random Image

SOFT6007 Assessment 1 Results

The results for Assessment 1 are now online. The first column shows the last 4 digits of the Student ID number. (Where there are fewer than 4 digits the missing digits are preceeding zeros). The second column shows the student's mark.

If your number does not appear it may be that you are not registered. Please e-mail Colin so that he can check that there is not a mistake. If you are not registered you will not receive your result until you are.

If you think the mark may be incorrect please e-mail Colin so he can check. It might be a transcription error, for example.

SOFT6008 Copying code

Students should be careful about copying code from other students. Copying code from other students and using it in assignments is not acceptable. Using code that you did not write yourself will very likely result in disciplinary action.

SOFT6008 Class 36

Some students are still working on Assignment 1.

I asked the remaining students to continue working with cookies.

SOFT6008 Class 35

(Some) Students continued working with cookies. Assignment 2 will very likely rely heavily on the use of cookies.

SOFT6008 Class 34

Students started to get to grips with cookies.

There's a prerecorded video on cookies as well as the handout from before the break.

SOFT6008 Class 33

Most of the time was taken up with students submitting their assessments.

Any work that wasn't submitted by noon, is now late. A 10% late penalty applies to work submitted in the first week. So students who are late might be wise to take their time and make sure the work is complete.

Any students who got into difficulty and think they would be better off taking the extra time and 10% penalty, are free to do so. Please advise me of your intentions.

SOFT6007 EV COM Registration Issues

By my reconning there are in excess of 40 students taking this class by night.

The registration system is so far only aware of 22. Of those 22 only 10 are actually fully registered.

The registration system in place for evening students is far from perfect. However the semester is nearly over at this stage so if you are not fully registered you would want to get getting that sorted. At some point, quite soon, unregistered students will find that it is simply too late.

Students not registering properly has caused a number of problems. The most tragic is that the number of students taking the module would have justified the module being offered on a second night. This would have afforded students who can't make it on Wednesday a second opportunity to come to class. Another problem is that it is not possible for me to enter marks into the students records system for students who are not registered for a class. Entering student marks in dribs and drabs is very time consuming. This can also cause delays and errors.