Thursday, November 13, 2014

SOFT6008 COM2.B Class 35

Students worked on the assignment.

Only 5 students turned up.

SOFT6007 ITM Class 36

Students worked on the assignment.

Only 5 turned up.

SOFT6007 Simpler Three Column Layout

I put a simpler three column layout example on the blog notes page today. If you already have you already have a three column layout that you are happy with, there is no need to change it. But if you haven't started it yet, this simpler version makes for a better starting point.

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

SOFT6008 CLASS 36



I went through a suggested solution for the question posed in the exam and outlined how the marks were allocated.

Afterwards (not on recording) we went through the marking scheme for  Assignment 2 and I identified what I considered to be low hanging fruit. I also explained a bit about the HTML5 invalid psuedoclass

SOFT6008 COM2.A Class 35

Students worked on the assignment

SOFT6008 DWEB2 34 & 35

Students worked on the assignment

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

SOFT6007 Digital Colour

Some more information about digital colour systems, for those who are interested.


Hue Satuuation Brightness (HSB) system



Red Green Blue (RGB) system
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black (CMYK) system

SOFT6007 ITM Classes 33 & 34

I explained the need for DOCTYPE and charset declarations.

I showed students how to do a horizontal navigation bar using a tags and display:inline-block

[If you missed this class. See class 33 for DWEB]

SOFT6007 DWEB Classes 34 & 35

Students worked on the assignment

SOFT6007 Class 33 Digital Colour



At the start of class I gave students grey colour chips to sort. Then I gave them colour chips.

We looked at the Hue Saturation Brightness (HSB), Red Green Blue (RGB) and Cyan Magenta Yellow Black (CMYK) colour systems. I spoke a little bit about Pantone too.

SOFT6007 WEB Class 34



I explained the need for DOCTYPE and charset declarations.

I showed students how to do a horizontal navigation bar using a tags and display:inline-block

Monday, November 10, 2014

SOFT6008 DWEB2 Class 33

Most students seem to be doing fine, but a few are a good bit behind. A few refuse to take my advice. 

I met with everyone once, but there were few questions otherwise. 

SOFT6008 COM2.A Classes 33 & 34

Attendance was poor. Students (who were there) seem to making progress, but for some it is a bit slow. 

I spent the class debugging and explaining

SOFT6008 Deadline Extension

The deadline for Assignment 2 is now
noon on Friday 28 November 2014.


Thursday, November 6, 2014

SOFT6008 Assessment 1 Results



I finished correcting the exam we did last week. I have sent an email with the results anonymised. This histogram of the results looks something like the bar chart above. They are very disappointing.

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

SOFT6008 COM2.B Classes 29 & 30

Students worked on the assignment

SOFT6008 Class 32


We looked at cookies

SOFT6008 COM2.A Class 31

Students worked on the assignment

SOFT6008 DWEB2 Classes 30 & 31

Students worked on the assignment

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

SOFT6007 ITM1 Classes 30 & 31

Students worked on the exercises