SOFT6007 DCOM1 no move on the cards

I looked into moving our Friday afternoon class to Tuesday evening, but there are no labs available at that time.

SOFT6007 COM1 Class 07

We had an in-class exam. But it was just for students to find out how they are doing. The results will not form part of the final grade.

SOFT6008 Plans

On Monday we will not cover any new material. Students have plenty of exercises to do and plenty code to to write.

SOFT6007

On Monday we will have an in-class exam on everything we're done so far. But there won't be any marks going for it.

SOFT6001 Class 05 DCOM1 Lab

Students made several pages and link them together. The pages included the nested list exercise and a page with an image. Most students also coded their timetables using a table

SOFT6007 DCOM1/ITS1 Class 06

We looked at tables and used colspan and rowspan

SOFT6007 COM1 Class 06

We looked at tables and used colspan and rowspan

Hogeschool van Amsterdam

I have some brochures from Hogeschool van Amsterdam for anyone interested in going there on Erasmus. Classes are taught in English.

SOFT6008 Class 06

We transacted our first bit of business with the DOM in order to do a rollover.

Connected Blog to Google+

I connected my blog and my Google+ account today. Now I can write a blog post as usual and share it with the relevant people in Google+. That's handy because I was more or less putting the same information in both. I want to keep both on the go at the same time. I want to build the audience for one, but keep the audience for the old. I'll be curious to see which students prefer In G+ students see only what's relevant to them. On the blog they can see everything, unless they click on the appropriate label.

SOFT6007 Targets

By the end of this week students should have a website with a few pages linked to each other, including one page with the nested list example, and one page with an image.

If that's not happening for you, you need to let me know so we can get you sorted.

SOFT6007 COM1 Class 05 Lab A

Students coded the nested list exercise and made some pages link to each other.

Some students used to class to catch up on things they had missed. It's important to get the fundamentals sorted before moving on.

SOFT6007 COM1 Class 05 Lab B

Students coded the nested list exercise and made some pages link to each other.

Some students used to class to catch up on things they had missed. It's important to get the fundamentals sorted before moving on.

SOFT6007 ITS1 Class 05 Lab

We looked at how to link between pages.

Students coded example from previous classes.

A number of students used the time to catch up on missed classes. Students should catch up this week.

SOFT6008 Class 05

We looked at alerts and promts and then loops.

I set the euro change maker exercise for students. The logic of that can be tricky and there are a few ways to do it.

iTunesU

I was all set today to start uploading my classes to iTunes you. Two years ago I setup of a podcast server. I had imagined that the latest version of the software would be a huge improvement on the previous one, but it's still very clunky. I held off publishing classes so far this semester in anticipation of submitting them to the automated server. But if the pieces don't fall into place soon I must have to manually type the RSS feed myself. That's pointless donkey work.

If Apple plans to sell an iPad to every student and wants lecturers' content to be the draw it is going to have to take seriously the server side part of the equation. Using the server product it is hard to believe it's from the same company that makes iPods. The list of things I would fix if I was in charge is too long for me to start on.

On a positive note, Google+ is working out well for be so far. The ease with which I can publish a video is amazing (take note Apple). There hasn't been too much interaction with students on G+ yet, at least not with me. They may be interacting with each other, but I don't think so. I think the social element of education technology is often ignored. That's why I think something like G+ or FaceBook is the way to go.

SOFT6007 DCOM1/ITS1 Class 04

We looked at HTML entities and did another nested list exercise

SOFT6008 Class 04 Lab

Students started coding the snap, dice, and slot exercises.

http://mcom.cit.ie/staff/computing/cmanning/soft6008/samplecode/exercise-dice.html
http://mcom.cit.ie/staff/computing/cmanning/soft6008/samplecode/exercise-snap.html
http://mcom.cit.ie/staff/computing/cmanning/soft6008/samplecode/exercise-slots.html


Tricky enough exercises. I noticed a lot of code first and think later problems during the lab.

Don't forget the discussion we had about why the randomness in the New Orleans example is slightly off.

Is it me or is the random number generator a bit fishy?

SOFT6007 COM1 Class 04

We looked at HTML entities, recapped lists, and students did a nested list exercise in groups of three.

SOFT6007 Class 02 Lab DCOM

I was late to class because I couldn't find my wallet.

Students used the videos on Google+ to catch up on the class they missed on Monday.

Students made webpages of their own in notepad that included an image and a nested list.

Good work. Well done!