Web Programming One

Fall 2010

Documents

• Course Syllabus, Schedule, and Policies - Revised November 16, 2010
• Text: HTML5 and CSS3
• Academic Honesty
• Academic Calendar

Assignments

• Hw1: Essay v1
• Hw2: New and Improved Essay
• Mid-term Project: TiVo Guide v1.0
• Hw3: TiVo Guide v2.007
• Final Project: TiVo Guide v3.11 - Here's an excellent, though not perfect Example.

Resources

• Introduction to Browsers and the Web
• Introduction to HTML
• Using the new HTML5 tags
• Being Efficient about loading jQuery
• W3C HTML Validator
• How Browsers Work
• Cross-browser consistency with Normalize.css
• Lynx Viewer
• W3 Schools Tutorials and References
• Other Web Programming Tutorials
• The Web Developer's Handbook
• Professional Webmasters Stack Exchange
• Web Development Add-ins for Firefox
• Six Revisions - Great web development tips
• HTML5 Browser Readiness (in HTML5)
• Lastest HTML5 specification
• YUI Theater: Introduction to HTML5
• Doctype - Web Design Q&A
• Examples of Bad Web Design
• Reserved Top Level DNS Names
• DNS, root sites, and servers
  1. root-servers.org
  2. short presentation
• Prototype and Objects diagram from class - (Thanks David.)

Personal Site

If you forget the direct URL to your personal site then enter your last name in the text box and press go.
http://www.labouseur.com/students/web1/  

Articles

• A Brief History of the Internet
• A Brief History of Web Browsers
• Responsive Design
• Google annoys Microsoft with Chrome plugin for IE
• Douglas Crockford's DOM Theory presentation (available as a PPT on the YUI blog)
• Future web standards
• An HTML5 Presentation in HTML5
• Dive into HTML5
• YUI Theater: Introduction to HTML5
• HTM5 might include speech in the future.
• CSS fun: Our Solar System in CSS3
• JavaScript fun: Scroll Clock

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