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CS-130 Fundamentals of Web Programming

Contact

Brad Miller |
----- | ---- Office | Olin, 321 email | bmiller@luther.edu
Skype | bonelake
Google+ | millbr02 Piazza | https://piazza.com/luther/fall2014/cs130

Office Hours

Monday Wednesday, Friday: 9:30 -- 10:30, 1:00 -- 2:30
Other times by appointment, drop-in, or virtual. Really! I’m here to help you, so stop in. Mornings are open and I’m usually around.

Text Book

I have written a set of class notes and exercise in the form of an online textbook. You can find a link to the textbook on the course page.

Goals

• To understand the common technologies used to create and deliver web pages

• To understand how modern web publishing works

• To learn HTML and CSS

• To learn how to learn about rapidly changing technologies

• To become familiar with the Javascript Language

Course Outline

1. HTML

   1. Functional view of the web

   2. Creating basic web pages “from scratch”

   3. HTML 5 Elements

   4. Serving and Deploying on github

2. Styling Web Pages with CSS

   1. Presentation -vs- content

   2. CSS Matching Rules

   3. Laying out your pages

   4. Responsive design with Bootstrap

3. Javascript

   1. Language fundamentals

   2. The Document Object Model (DOM)

   3. Conditionals

   4. Loops

   5. Javascript Helper Objects: Arrays and localStorage

Getting Help

The best way for you to get help is to contact me by stopping in my office. The second best is for you to email me your question, and your code. The answers to many of your questions may also be in the textbook, but I realize that you may not be following everything in the text, and so some additional explanation might be useful. What about googling for some help? I would strongly encourage you to NOT google for an answer. Many of the answers you might find by googling will lead you down a bad path. Its not that they are wrong it is just that many of the answers you are likely to find are meant for programmers with much more experience. The exeption to this is w3schools. The answers on w3schools are going to be short, to the point, and good for beginners. So, if you want to be efficient with your time, I recommend you stick to the resources I have mentioned here when you need help.

Class Requirements:

Participation

“The teacher’s job is to design learning experiences, not primarily to impart information” This is going to be an experiential class, I’ll lecture some and try to explain some big picture stuff but, I’ve learned everything I know in this area by doing stuff. I expect you to be engaged and to ask questions and do stuff. If you stop at the bare minimum of what I ask you to do for any particular assignment you’ll be missing an opportunity.

Homework

You will have at least weekly homework assignments, sometimes more frequently when they are easier. I will often ask you to complete something that we started working on in class by the beginning of the next class. This type of assignment counts toward your class participation grade.

Grading

60%   Homework Assignments
30%   Weekly Quizzes
10%   Class participation

The grading scale is:

90 -- 100   A
80 -- 89    B
70 -- 79    C
60 -- 69    D
0 --  59    F