SOFT6007 DWEB1/ITM1 Class 17

We looked at digital colour systems.

To get some practice using the RGB system students can use a colour picker in a program like PowerPoint or play Colin's HTML Colour Picker Game (HTML5 Browser required)

Students may also be interested in the videos online.

The video below explains number systems and Hex.

SOFT6008 Dropbox feedback

If you successfully shared a dropbox folder with me you will fine a note from me in the folder. If you didn't do that then you need to take some corrective action.

If you uploaded your credit card code you will also find some feedback.

SOFT6008 DWEB1 Class 17

Students worked on coding check sum calculations for various schemes. Some are still struggling with the Luhn algorithm

SOFT6007 DWEB1 Class 18

Students added style data to their timetables.

SOFT6007 ITM1 Timetable change

The ITM1 timetable has changed. This means that the date of the in-class exam has also changed.

SOFT6008 COM2A Class 18 & 19

Students worked on coding various check sum claculations

SOFT6008 Class 17

We looked at some more check sum calculations and discussed strategies for coding them.

We briefly discussed the upcoming exam.

SOFT6008 COM2A Class 15 & 16

Students worked on coding the credit card validator. However many struggled so we went through it on the board and developed some (not-JavaScript) code.

SOFT6008 COM2B Class 14

Students started writing the credit card code

Friday 25 October is a holiday

Friday 25 October is a holiday. There will be no classes on that day.

Monday 28 October is also a holiday.

SOFT6008 Assessment 1

Assessment 1 will be a written in-class exam in Week 05/06. The exam will take 60-70 minutes.

Students will be permitted to bring with them a single A4 sheet of notes. (not 2 single sheets stuck together)

COM2-B will have the exam at 1100 on Friday 18 October in C134
COM2-A will have the exam at 1000 on Monday 21 October in C128
DWEB2 will have the exam at 0930 on Wednesday 23 October in IT2.1

If you know you will be missing on the day of your exam please advise Colin in advance.

SOFT6007 ITM1 Class 16

Students added styles to the timetables.

SOFT6007 Assessment 1

Assessment 1 will be a written in-class exam in Week 06.

Students will be permitted to bring with them a single A4 sheet of notes. (not 2 single sheets stuck together)

DWEB1 will have the exam at 1400 on Tuesday 22 October in IT1.2
ITM1 will have the exam at 1600 on Tuesday 22 October in IT1.3

If you know you will be missing on the day of your exam please advise Colin in advance.

SOFT6007 ITM1 Class 14 & 15

In the first hour students coded their college timetables in HTML.

In the second part of the lab I explained how CSS works and I styled a table.

SOFT6008 COM2A Class 16

Students worked on the credit card code.

I got students to share a dropbox with me.

SOFT6008 Dropbox

SOFT6008 students (of Colin) should make a dropbox folder with a name in the following format SOFT6008-DanMurphy and invite me to share the folder at colin.manning@cit.ie

SOFT6008 DWEB2 Class 15 & 16

Students worked on the credit card code. That needs to be completed this week.

SOFT6007 DWEB1 Class 15 & 16

For the first hour students coded their class timetables in HTML.

In the second hour we looked at CSS and I styled a table. I asked student to style their tables.

SOFT6007 DWEB1/ITM1 Class 13 Lecture

We had a very quick look at the RGB system. We will return to this again and consider it at a more leisurely pace.

We looked at how to code a table in HTML and considered collapsing cell walls using colspan and rowspan. I asked students to code their timetables in HTML.

SOFT6008 DWEB2 Class 14

I asked students to start coding the credit card check sum algorithm. This exercise required student to pay particular attention to types so that 1 + 1 is never 11.