Thursday, October 10, 2013

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.

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

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.

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

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.

Monday, October 7, 2013

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.

SOFT6007 Preview



This week we will look at coding tables in HTML


SOFT6007 DWEB1 Class 14 Lab

Students continued to work on the image map exercises. Students who didn't complete those today should finish them in their own time. In the next lab we will look at tables.

SOFT6008 COM2A Class 13 & 14

I asked students to start coding the credit card check sum algorithm

SOFT6008 Class 13



We discussed coding strategies for credit card and EAN check sums. We looked at check sums for ISBN, and Euro banknotes. I asked students to check some cash they had on them.

Thursday, October 3, 2013

SOFT6007 Image Maps

I expect all students to be finished with both Image Map exercises by Monday evening. So you may need to work on those between now and then.

SOFT6007 ITM1 Class 12

Students continued working on the image map exercises. Students should work on those over the weekend to finish both.

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

SOFT6007 ITM1 Class 10 & 11

Students worked on the Iberia and USA image map exercises

SOFT6008 COM2A Class 12

Students continued extending the slot machine example.

SOFT6008 DWEB2 Class 11 & 12

Students worked on extending the slot machine example.

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

SOFT6007 DWEB1 Class 11 & 12

Students worked on the two image map exercises

SOFT6008 COM2-B Class 10

Students worked on extending the slot machine example

SOFT6007 DWEB/ITM Class 09



I spoke a bit about Erasmus and the Free Choice module.

We looked at coding Image Maps in HTML.

I gave students print outs and they made a start on the first of two image map exercises.