SOFT6008 Class 11 COM

Students continued working on the mobile phone exercise. It took longer than I expected and a few students got into difficulty. When coding in javascript it's very important to code piece by piece and test as you go.

SOFT6008 Class 10 COM

I asked students to code the code example we looked at in class. Code should account for 089 numbers also

SOFT6008 Class 09 COM-WEB

We looked and prompt boxes for user input, the structure of loops in js, and using js for user input validation.

The trickiest thing we saw was the slice method.

video: SOFT6008-09-ALL-20121001.m4v

SOFT6008 Room change

Mondays at 0900 are now in D239.

SOFT6008 Class 08 DWEB-COM

We looked at modifying the source property of an image using the DOM.

video: SOFT6008-08-ALL-20120927.m4v

SOFT6007 Class 07 ITM

I got distracted and completely forgot to go to class. When I eventually turned up at 1240, I was surprised to find most students still there, although not all were working on their HTML.

I'm sorry. We'll have plenty if time to make up, so there's no need to be concerned

SOFT6007 Class 06 ITM

We looked at lists again and saw how to do definition lists.

We reviewed the IMG tag and I talked about resizing images.

We looked at HTML Entities for non-English characters.

I asked students to code some non-English text and to complete the example nested list in HTML. Most students finished on time, but some didn't. Those students will need to get that  sorted.

video: SOFT6007-06-ITM-20120926-1600.m4v

SOFT6007 Class 05 ITM

I held class an hour earlier at the request of the students.

We did a recap and I tried to make sure that everyone has the basics sorted.

video: SOFT6007-05-ITM-20120926-1500.m4v

SOFT6007 Class 08 WEB-ITM

I talked about separating content from style and introduced the topic of style sheets (CSS)

video: SOFT6007-04-WEB-ITM-20120919-1100.m4v

SOFT6008 Class 06 WEB

Students continued work on their games of chance.

I'm well impressed with the skill level and attitude of the class. I anticipate we will get lots of good work done over the course of the semester.

IT problems

An electrical contractor accidentally cut the power to the comms room yesterday evening. Some services start back up right away, while others need a helping hand. Others are just towards the back of the queue. There server where my notes are is way downs the queue.

SOFT6008 Class 05 WEB

Some students used this class to catch up. I asked students to experiment with random images to develop some kind of game of chance. Many had a slot machine done already so I suggested they try something with cards.

We will move onto something new in the lecture.

audio:  SOFT6008-05-ALL-20120924-0900.m4a

Servers down

My Ethernet and wifi connections are down. I can't access my remote drive from outside CIT so it'll probably be Thursday before I update the blog with the latest batch of notes. Sorry

COMP6023 Class 06

Students continued with the FTP exercise, but added css and image files. Don't forget that non-text files must be uploaded in binary mode or they can get messed up. (But usually they don't)

I asked students to dust off their old blogs or to start new ones if needed. Students should post an entry about what we did in class today and include a link to their site on praxis. Please e-mail the URL for the blog to colin.manning@cit.ie by noon on Friday to ensure that you get any marks that may be due to you.

That was a good day's work. Well done guys.

COMP6023 Class 05

Each student made a simple website and FTP'd it up to the praxis webserver. That server will be available for a few more weeks if you want to experiment. Just make sure to stay inside your own sub-directory.

If you missed the class get the username and password from someone who was there or ask me. But for security reasons I can't post them here.

SOFT6007 Class 06 DWEB

We reviewed the basics.

We looked at OLs and ULs again and saw DLs for the first time. I talked yet again about the structure of the list and how to nest things.

By the end of this class students should have

• several pages linked to each other containing
• links to other local pages and external pages
• images
• the big nested list exercise

SOFT6007 Class 05 WEB

I couldn't get the projector in IT2.2 working so I had to do a quick change of plan

I did a quick recap of last week and then I explained about HTML entities for non-English characters. I gave out a handout on entities, but that was just a sample of them. You can find a full list online.

From next week this class will be in IT2.1 instead of IT2.2

audio: SOFT6007-05-WEB-20120924.m4a

SOFT6008 Class 07 COM

Students continued working on the random image game code.

Many students took on big challenges, which is great. The trick is to code step by step and to not get discouraged if it doesn't work right away.

I was well impressed with the work students did today. Not to put pressure on the WEB2 group, but this class was smokin'
 

SOFT6008 Class 06 COM

I asked students who missed last week to make sure they caught up with what we did.

I asked students to experiment with the random image code we saw in class and to try new things with it. Building a slot machine seems like the obvious choice, but students are free to experiment.

The MCOM server was down so I put the sample code an images into students' dropbox folders.

SOFT6008 Class 05

We were in PF53 again so didn't do anything very technical.

I talked a bit about the module, the online resources, and my plans for the assessments.