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.

SOFT6007 Class 03 ITM

We looked at how to add images to webpages using the IMG tag

video: SOFT6007-03-ITM-20120920-1600.m4v

SOFT6008 DWEB-COM Class 04

We extended the random image program to make various games of chance. I asked students to think about how they might extend the code further to make, say, a slot machine.

Links to code available on the notes and slides page --->

video: SOFT6008-04-ALL-20120920-1600.m4v

SOFT6007 Class 02 ITM

Students continued work on the pages we started in the earlier class.

We finished up a little bit early.

Good days work. Well done

SOFT6007 Class 01 ITM

We looked at a simple HTML to see the minimum requirements for a valid page. Then we made more complex pages with links to each other and links to other sites.

Everyone was already familiar with the IT systems so made rapid progress

video: SOFT6007-01-ITM-20120919-1600.m4v

SOFT6007 Class 4 DWEB-ITM

We looked at nested lists. Students did an exercise in class. I asked them to complete it and bring it to the next class

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

SOFT6008 Class 03 DWEB

We looked at how to generate random numbers in a chosen range and how to build up an image tag using document.write


I asked students to upload the work to dropbox once completed.

code:
javascript2-random-image.html

slides:
soft6008-01b.pdf

video: SOFT6008-03-WEB-20120919-1000.m4v

SOFT6008 Class 02 DWEB

I introduced JavaScript and we looked at an example program.

I asked students to type it so they could get used to the text editor and the debugging tools. Students should investigate the text editor and debugger options available for their home machines.

code:
Time Based Greeting javascript1-time-based-greeting.html

slides:
soft6008-01b.pdf

video: SOFT6008-02-WEB-20120919-0900.m4v

COMP6023 Class 03

We went home. We did well to get as much done as we did given the constraints.

COMP6023 Class 02

We uploaded a file to a web server using the web interface but couldn't get the FTP to work. [You can't FTP across CIT's wifi for security reasons]

I talked a bit about content management systems (CMSs)

SOFT6007 WEB Lab 3

We looked at how to include images in a page using the img tag. I asked student to download images and add them to their webpages.

I asked students to join Google+ and to add me to one of their circles.

video: SOFT6007-03-WEB-20120918.m4v