WDP I Fall 2009 Due Dates

• 9/18---CS_HW_1
• 9/23---VCD_HW_1
• 9/30---CS_HW_2
• 10/09---VCD_HW_2
• 10/23---CS_HW_3
• 11/2---CS_HW_4
• 11/06---VCD_HW_3
• 11/20---CS_HW_5
• 9/28---MILESTONE_1
• 11/2---MILESTONE_2
• 11/20---MILESTONE_3

Other Important Dates

    8/31       Classes begin
    9/7        Labor Day, no classes
    10/19      Midterm Exam
    11/11      Veterans Day, no classes
    11/25-29   Thanksgiving break, no classes
    12/13      Classes End
    12/14      Final Presentation (5:45 am - 8:00 pm)

        University Calendar

WDP I Fall 2009 Class Schedule

Before first class: Students are strongly advised to read the class notices and fill out the Student Questionnaire. The questionnaire will be collected by the end of the first class.

Class Times

VCD classes are on Monday 5:30-7:10 in Room 156.
CS classes are on Tuesday 5:30-6:45 in CS Lab 162.

Weekly Schedule

Week 1

Mon 8/31 Room 156 CS--(Derek, Paul)
        Review policy, objectives, grading, attendance, projects, course notes,
        textbook and references, lab sessions, computer accounts, TAs,
        mailing list for class, students exchange email addresses,
        team formation explained,
        Questionnaire collected,

Reading assignment: Chapter One of Textbook

Tue 9/1 Room 162 CS (Derek, Paul)
        e-mail and listserv, course and textbook website,
        submitting homework, team formation,
        Review course materials students
        Web Overview,
        Web Design and Programming, overview,
        Web Design and Programming major tasks and Introduction to Web/Internet/HTTP (Paul lectures)

        Teams Formed

Week 2

Mon 9/7 (Room 156)
Read Chapter 4: Design Principles; Design Elements; Point, Line, Plane;
           Unity & Variety. Demonstrate how to create exercise in Photoshop. (Derek)

Tue 9/8 (Room 162)
XHTML (Paul)

Week 3

Mon 9/14 Emphasis, Focal Point, Hierarchy; Contrast;
           Visual Balance. Exercise in Photoshop. (Derek)

Tue 12/15 XHTML, first webpage, fonts, colors, lists, links and anchors, images, image maps (Paul)

Week 4

Tue 9/22 Advanced XHTML: Chapter 3 (Paul)

Week 5

Mon 9/28 Information Architecture, Overview Layouts; Client Identity;
          Organizational Framework. (Derek)

Mon 9/30 XHTML concluded, CSS (style sheets) Chapter 6 (Paul)

Week 6

Tue 10/6 CSS (Chapter 6) (Paul)

Week 7

Mon 10/12 Chapter 7: Color and Graphics; Color wheel, Itten's color contrasts, Analogous, Complementary colors;
          Color on the Web; Color and Readability(Derek)

Tue 10/13 Forms and CGI (Chapter 8) (Paul)

Week 8

Mon 10/19 Mid-term Exam :

The midterm will have four parts follows: (i) CS exam for CS students (ii) CS exam for VCD students (iii) VCD exam for VCD students (iv) VCD exam for CS students. VCD students take (ii) and (iii) other students take (i) and (iv).

The CS part will be from Chapters 1--6 inclusive, parts of chapter 7 may be covered also by Derek.

Room: Lab 156 Math/CS Building
Time: 5:30 to 7:10
The exam will consist of two papers, one from each instructor:

      For VCD Students                 For Non-VCD Students

(a) Design exam from Derek 50%   (c) Design exam from Derek 50%
(b) CS exam from Paul      50%   (d) CS exam from Paul      50%

Sample CS Midterm Exam

Tue 10/20 Forms and CGI (continued) (Paul)

Week 9

Mon 10/26 Chapter 7: Color and Graphics; Color wheel, Itten's color contrasts, Analogous,
          Complementary colors; Color on the Web; Color and Readability (Derek)

Tue 10/27 Client-side Scripting, Javascript, Chapter 9 (Paul)

Week 10

Mon 11/2 Creating Graphics; Review Production Process of Photoshop and Dreamweaver, Critique and Lab Session (Derek)
* * * * * Milestone II * * * * *

Tue 11/3 Javascript Continued Chapter 9 (Paul)

Week 11

Mon 11/9 Introduction to Flash (Derek)

Tue 11/10 DOM and DHTML (Paul)

Week 12

Mon 11/16 Flash Continued (Derek)

Tue 11/17 DOM and DHTML

Week 13 Mon 11/23 Working with Flash elements. Batch processing in Photoshop. Critique and Lab Session (Derek)
* * * * * Milestone III * * * * *

Tue 11/24 Perl for the Web CGI.pm (Paul)

Week 14

Mon 11/30 Critique and Lab Session (Derek)

Tue 12/1 Sessions and Cookies (Paul) Week 15

Mon 12/7 Project Final Review (Derek)

Tue 12/8 TEAMS MEET IN ROOM 162 CS, Final Project Testing, uploading to Webdav for Final Presentation; Final adjustment to project sites) (Paul and Derek)

Finals Week

Mon 12/14 (room CS 162) 5:45 to 8:00 Team Presentations

Finishing

Each team will have about 20 minutes to demo their site. Each team member must speak at the demo. The team leader will do a brief intoduction and each member will explain the site and what each did for the team project. Each team member must state his/her full name slowly and clearly. Remember this is an EXAM.

All teams and students must submit the following by the end of team presentations:

1. Team report in hardcopy (at least 5 pages, must be well-written and free of spelling and grammar errors.)
2. Individual report in hardcopy (at least 3 pages, must be well-written and free of spelling and grammar errors.)
3. Upload all your site files to your team WebDAV repository and this is where you will demo your site at finals. The repository also must include the following:
   • complete website
   • cgi programs
   • art originals (in folder art/)
   • PDF files for the team and all individual reports
4. See the projects page for more instructions and info on reports, final reports, and end-of-term submissions.