SOFT6007 COM1/ITS1/DCOM1 Class 15

There was no class 15

SOFT6007 COM1 Friday 0900 class canceled

There will be no web dev class on Friday morning. Cinderella, you shall go to the ball!

Ní beidh a leithéid ann arís

Today is a sad day. Today any public servant of our republic who has enough pension entitlements to make it practical for them to leave, will leave. In schools, hospitals, government offices, and colleges all around the country people are saying their goodbyes. I imagine there pubs will be busy tonight.

The departure of so many people all at the same time will be a bit traumatic for some institutions, and the effects may even be noticed by the customers of those public services. But I expect that their departure will affect not just the public services themselves, but will impact of the very nature of public service.

The republic, since its foundation, has been served well by its public servants. They were dedicated, impartial, and well respected. Of late there has been a lot of public servant bashing, and the mutual regard the public and public servants once had or each other has been eroded. Today's exodus will see not just a quantitative change in the number of public servants. There will be a qualitative change in the whole culture of public service.

Good luck to those going. Ní beidh a leithéid ann arís.

SOFT6007 Class 14 ITS1 Lab

We looked at using CSS to change the appearance of the timetables we coded in previous classes.

All students present eventually got it working.

SOFT6008 Class 14

Students worked on coding the various exercises.

I gave out a handout on Checksums

For numbers over 10, mod 9 gives the same result as adding the digits together. That's easier to implement.

SOFT6007 DCOM1/ITS1 Friday class canceled

I have to attend a panel visit for a new course on Friday morning so the 1100 class won't go ahead. Students will be expected to take the class online. A recording of the 0900 COM1 will be made available.

YouTube video on Teaching Naked

I spent all day today working on a YouTube video about Teaching Naked. I did the script months ago, and the audio a few weeks ago. I was hoping to get someone with some illustration skills to draw slides for me, but decided to just get it done and dusted.

I consider it to be in Beta just yet. Will publish it after I get some feedback.

SOFT6007 ITS1/DCOM1 Class 13

We looked at Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Slides

SOFT6008 Well done!

I'm pretty impressed with the quality of the work being done in the labs. Most students seem to be taking it seriously and getting on with it.

But don't forget that if you get stuck, it's important to ask for help.

SOFT6008 Class 13

We started to look at check digits. The phonenumbers example illustrates where we are going with this stuff and how it's coded.

Must students were still working on other things though.

Cookies are tricky to deal with, but very impressive once you get them working.

SOFT6007 COM1 Class 13

We looked at Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

SOFT6007 Class 11 DCOM1 Lab

Students worked on the various exercises. Most concentrated on getting the image maps working.

Good day's work. Well done

SOFT6007 ITS1/DCOM1 Class 12

How many colors in the rainbow?

SOFT6007 COM1 Class 12

How many colours in the rainbow? Bit of a head-wreck. And I didn't even get to explain why Santa's suit is red!

SOFT6008 Class 12

We looked at cookies.

I was very tired and so was everyone else. I think we will start to use more lab time as lectures rather than expect our brains to work properly on Thursday at 1700.

SOFT6007 COM1 Class 11 Lab A

Students worked on coding the Iberia and USA Cities image maps. This is going slower than I had anticipated.

SOFT6007 COM1 Class 11 Lab B

Students worked on coding the Iberia and USA Cities image maps. This is going slower than I had anticipated.

SOFT6008 Cookies & Privacy

The use of cookies to track users' behaviour causes a lot of concern.

These radio programmes discuss some of the issues
http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2010/10/20101005_atc_05.mp3?dl=1
http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2011/02/20110214_atc_04.mp3?dl=1

SOFT6007 Podcast

I have set up a podcast for COM1 and ITS1/DOM1. Students should be able to download notes and lectures using iTunes. Once it's set up all new classes and notes will download automatically. Students who are lucky enough to have iPhone4s or iPads should be able to sych those decides using iTunes and review the classes and notes on their devices.

Poor people like me who have only iPhone3s will have to do some converting.

This podcats will be updated only every one or two weeks because it is very time consuming. Google+ will have the classes first. So if you missed something check there first.

To subscribe in iTunes go Advanced > Subscrive to Podcast... and paste in the URL below.

COM1 Podcast:  http://mcom.cit.ie/staff/computing/cmanning/soft6007-2012/soft6007-com1.xml

ITS1/DCOM1 POdcast: http://mcom.cit.ie/staff/computing/cmanning/soft6007-2012/soft6007-its1.xml

SOFT6008 Cookies

Soon we will take a look at writing code for cookies. You can get a head start with this online class.

If that doesn't work above, try this: http://youtu.be/4AAtAULSUXU