Table of Contents

• Synopsis
• Description
• Communication
• Goals
• Grade
• Calendar
• Effort
• Materials
• Bugs
• Semester
• Programme
• Conduct
• License

Synopsis

The course Frontend 3 is given at @CMDA in 2017 between 25 September and 20 October.

• Course: Frontend 3
• Course coordinator: Titus Wormer
• Course lecturers: Titus Wormer (@wooorm) and Laurens Aarnoudse (@razpudding)
• Semester: Information Design
• Semester coordinators: Frank Kloos and Maaike van Cruchten
• SIS: Frontend 3 Data
• Credit: 3 ECTS
• Academic year: 2017-2018
• Period: Quarter 1
• Programme: Communication and Multimedia Design (full time bachelor)
• Language: Dutch instructions and English resources
• Entry requirements: N/A

Description

Frontend 3 builds further on the knowledge acquired in Internetstandaarden, Inleiding Programmeren, Frontend 1, Frontend 2, and Backend (the last two are optional but recommended), amongst others.

In this course you’ll learn to use d3 to actually make what you design, to advance your web dev skills, and to adopt frameworks and libraries. In Project 1 (individual) and Project 2 (team) of Information Design you’ll apply your newfound skills.

If you’d like to continue with web development after this course check out the Minor Web Development. Feel free to ask your lecturer for more info about the minor.

Communication

• GitHub — Main source of information, assignments, important dates, and more
• Website — Examples and assignments
• Slack — General chatter and Q&A
• Moodle — Schedulers

Goals

Main goals

The 3 main goals in this course are:

• Learning how to use a library
• Making a data visualisation from external data
• Learning d3

Subgoals

In practice you’ll learn to:

1. Understand SVG and canvas (class 1)
2. Load external data (class 1 and class 3)
3. Write documentation (class 2)
4. Read documentation (class 2)
5. Debug code (class 2)
6. Refactor code (class 2)
7. Use scales (domain, range, and axis) (class 2)
8. Transform and clean data (class 3)
9. Manipulate elements (class 3 and class 4)
10. Use data joins (class 3 and class 4)
11. Create interactive visualisations (class 4 and class 5)
12. Create multiple visualisations on the same page (class 5)

Grade

Task	Weight
Participation	10%
Assessment 1 (remote)	20%
Assessment 2 (remote)	30%
Assessment 3 (oral)	40%
Total	100%

Calendar

Dates are indicative. Check rooster.hva.nl for info on actual date, time, and place.

Class	Date ID 1	Date ID 2	Date ID 3
Class 1	25-09	26-09	25-09
Class 2	02-10	04-10	02-10
Assessment 1	05-10※	06-10※	04-10※
Class 3	05-10	06-10	04-10
Class 4	09-10	11-10	09-10
Assessment 2	12-10※	13-10※	11-10※
Class 5	12-10	13-10	11-10
Class 6	16-10	17-10	16-10
Assessment 3	19-10	20-10	18-10 and 20-10
Resit	01-02	31-01	02-02

※ Assessments 1 and 2 are to be handed in before the start of the next class.

Effort

The table below breaks down the general time needed to complete activities.

Activity	Effort (hrs)
Class (6 × 2½hrs)	15
Assignments (5 × 5hrs)	25
Assessment 1	4
Assessment 2	8
Assessment 3	12
Extra	20
Total	84

Materials

Resources used in this course

• 🆓 GitHub account (required) — Sign Up
• 🆓 Text Editor (required) — Atom or Sublime
• 🆓 Installation of Node, Python, or Ruby (required)
• 🆓 King, Ritchie S. Visual Storytelling with D3. Addison-Wesley, 2015 (optional)
• 🆓 Meeks, Elijah. D3.js in Action. O’Reilly Media, 2017 (optional)
• 🆓 Navarro Castillo, Pablo. Mastering D3.js. Packt Publishing, 2014 (optional)
• 🆓 D3.js Essentials on Lynda (optional)

💁 The three books are free for HvA students through Safari Bookshelves. Lynda is free for HvA students through our portal.

Resources to refresh your memory

• 🆓 Codecademy (course) — Intro to JavaScript: Learn to code interactively
• 🆓 Re-introduction to JavaScript (article) — Short re-introduction to JavaScript
• 🆓 JavaScript Essentials (course) — Learn JavaScript on Lynda (free for HvA students through our portal)
• 🆓 JavaScript For Cats (book) — Intro to JavaScript for new programmers
• 🆓 JavaScript 30 (course) — 30 day vanilla JavaScript coding challenge
• 🆓 Eloquent JavaScript (book) — Modern intro to programming
• 🆓 Basics of HTML & CSS (tutorial) — Learn how to use HTML & CSS
• 🆓 Command-line bootcamp (tutorial) — Learn how to work at the command-line
• 🆓 node-handbook (article) — Learn Node the Node way
• 🆓 NodeSchool (meetup) — Open source workshops that teach web software skills
• 💸 Learn Node (course) — Learn to build apps with Node, Express, and more (offers student discount)
• 💸 Tutoring — Match up with another CMD student

Resources used in previous courses

• Duckett, Jon. HTML & CSS. John Wiley & Sons, 2015 (internetstandaarden)
• Howe, Shay. Learn to Code HTML & CSS. New Riders, 2014 (internetstandaarden)
• Duckett, Jon. JavaScript & jQuery. John Wiley & Sons, 2015 (inleiding programmeren)
• Simpson, Kyle. YDKJS: Up & Going. O’Reilly Media, 2015 (frontend 2)
• Simpson, Kyle. YDKJS: Scope & Closures. O’Reilly Media, 2015 (frontend 2)
• Simpson, Kyle. YDKJS: this & Object Prototypes. O’Reilly Media, 2015 (frontend 2)
• Simpson, Kyle. YDKJS: Types & Grammar. O’Reilly Media, 2015 (frontend 2)
• Simpson, Kyle. YDKJS: Async & Performance. O’Reilly Media, 2015 (frontend 2)
• Simpson, Kyle. YDKJS: ES6 & Beyond. O’Reilly Media, 2016 (frontend 2)

Bugs

If you have questions:

• Read the manual
• Browse the gallery
• Follow tutorials
• Search StackOverflow
• Use a search engine (like DuckDuckGo)
• Ask questions on Slack
• Open an issue
• Contact a lecturer

Semester

Frontend 3 is given in the Information Design semester (quarter 1 and 2). Information Design is all about data visualisation and infographics. In 6 courses and 3 projects you’ll learn how to visualise data and complex information. In Frontend 3 you’ll learn how to build that.

This semester (including this course) is quite technical. However, we’ll also test your creativity. See the below infographic about Frontend 3’s place in Information Design.

Programme

Frontend 3 is given at Communication and Multimedia Design, a design bachelor focused on interactive digital products and services. CMD is part of the Faculty of Digital Media and Creative Industries at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.

Conduct

This project has a Code of Conduct. Anyone interacting with this repository, organisation, or community is bound by it.

Staff and students of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool van Amsterdam) are additionally bound by the Regulation Undesirable Conduct (Regeling Ongewenst Gedrag).

License

Software: MIT © Titus Wormer. Docs and images: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0.