Tuesday, November 20, 2012

SOFT6007 Class 37 & 38

Students worked on the assignment. A number of students who are finished already studied some JavaScript.

SOFT6007 Class 37 WEB ITM



We looked at the JavaScript code for the slot machine.

code: dom-slots3.html

SOFT6007 Assessment Reviews Tues 4/12 1100

Spotkanie na 11 we wtorek zostanie anulowane. Proszę wybrać inny termin.

Monday, November 19, 2012

SOFT6008 Spec modified

I have modified to assignment spec to relax the phone number validation. It wasn't hard, but was fiddly. Those of you who worked on it will earn bonus marks, so it wasn't wasted. But the minimum requirements are now easier to meet.

SOFT6008 Class 37 COM WEB



We concluded our look at the tile game

Thursday, November 15, 2012

SOFT6008 Class 36




We took a look at the tile game. It's an interesting example of how to fit pieces of code together to do something fairly complex.

SOFT6008 Dropboxes



These are the dropbox folders that have been shared with me so far. If you do not have a folder listed here you need to take action or you might not get your work in on time.

SOFT6007 Dropboxes

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These are the dropboxes that have been shared with me so far. If you do not have one here you need to take some action, or you might not be in a position to submit your work on time.

COMP6023 Class 36

We took a look a video compression using HandBrake

http://www.miracletutorials.com/how-to-encode-video-for-web-iphone-ipad-ipod/

SOFT6007 Class 36 ITM

Most students continued working on assignment 2. Some tackled a bit of JavaScript.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

SOFT6007 Class 35 ITM



We looked at forms and validation

SOFT6007 Class 33 ITM

I was missing for most of this class.

SOFT6007 Validation

In order to have your pages validate at validator.w3.org you will need to start your html documents with this:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">



SOT6008 CDATA

To validate your webpage you may need to use CDATA to get the JavaScript through the process.

http://javascript.about.com/library/blxhtml.htm

COMP6023 Class 35

We continued our look at video compression.

In tomorrow's class we will look at the effects of different coding parameters. Students who want to join in the fun should install the software available for free at handbrake.fr.

At the end of class we had a brief (off-mic) discussion on plagiarism. I feel like I have had enough of those conversations already. But to summarise: if you copy and paste off the web, that's your problem right there. It's not about how much you change things around after that!
Some plagiarism resources:
http://www.plagiarism.org/plag_article_what_is_plagiarism.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

COMP6023 Class 33 & 34

Students worked on various things. Many worked on stuff unrelated to this module. That's fine.

I met with each student (except one who left early) to discuss the progress for Assignment 3

SOFT6007 Class 36 WEB



We looked at the HTML for forms

samples:
soft6007-form.html


SOFT6007 Class 35 WEB

Students worked on Assignment 2. A few took a look at JavaScript

SOFT6007 Class 34 WEB ITM



We looked some more at JavaScript

examples:
rollover
coins

Monday, November 12, 2012

Assignment reviews

Students will be expected to meet with me and talk me through the work they have submitted. The extent to which students can explain their code will form part of the assessment process. The audio of the meetings will be recorded, but will remain private, and will be deleted once it is now longer needed.

Students received an e-mail with an invitation to chose a time that suits them. Please select a time slot. I propose to meet up to three students per time slot. I can't give each student an exact time, but I generally allow 20 minutes per student and this has worked well in the past.