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WDP I Fall 2007 Due Dates

  • 9/20---CS_HW_1_for_CS
  • 9/20---CS_HW_1_for_VCD
  • 10/1---CS_HW_2_for_CS
  • 11/6---CS_HW_4_for_CS
  • 11/20---CS_HW_5_for_CS
  • 11/20---CS_HW_5_for_VCD
  • 11/6---CS_HW_4_for_VCD
  • 10/1---CS_HW_2_for_VCD
  • 9/26---VCD_HW_1_for_CS
  • 9/26---VCD_HW_1_for_VCD
  • 10/3---VCD_HW_2_for_CS
  • 10/3---VCD_HW_2_for_VCD
  • 10/15---CS_HW_3_for_CS
  • 10/15---CS_HW_3_for_VCD
  • 9/14---MILESTONE_1
  • 10/17---MILESTONE_2
  • 11/14---MILESTONE_3

Other Important Dates 

    9/3        Labor Day
    10/10      Midterm Exam
    11/12      Veterans Day Observed
    11/21-25   Thanksgiving Recess
    12/09      Classes End
    12/10      Final Presentation (5:45 - 8:00 PM)

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WDP I Fall 2007 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

First class meets at 5:30 in Room 162 Math-CS building.

Classes are in Room 162 MSB: 5:30--6:45p Monday and Wednesday.

Weekly Schedule

Week 1

Mon 8/27 5:30 Room 162 CS--(Paul, Tony)
        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

Wed 8/29 (Paul, Tony)
        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 9/3 Labor Day (no classes)

Wed 9/5 Read Chapter 4: Design Principles; Design Elements; Point, Line, Plane;
           Unity & Variety. Demonstrate how to create exercise in Photoshop. (Tony)

Week 3

Mon 9/10 XHTML (Paul)
Wed 9/12 Emphasis, Focal Point, Hierarchy; Contrast;
           Visual Balance. Exercise in Photoshop. (Tony)
* * * * * Milestone I is 9/14 * * * * *

Week 4

Mon 9/17 XHTML, first webpage, fonts, colors, lists, links and anchors, images, image maps (Paul)

Wed 9/19 Overview of Dreamweaver. Chapter 5: Layout Grids; Web Page Layout
           Grids; Designing Grid Systems; Grids on the Web. (Tony)

Week 5

Mon 9/24 Advanced XHTML: Chapter 3 (Paul)

Wed 9/26 Information Architecture, Overview Layouts; Client Identity;
          Organizational Framework. (Tony)

Week 6

Mon 10/01 XHTML concluded, CSS (style sheets) Chapter 6 (Paul)

Wed 10/03 Typography Basics; Type Families, Choosing Type; Spacing Type;
          Type as graphics; Reading type on the Web. Mid-Tem Exam Review. (Tony)

Week 7

Mon 10/08 CSS (Chapter 6) (Paul)

Wed 10/10 Mid-term Exam :

The midterm will have two parts: VCD and CS. The CS part will be from Chapters 1--6 inclusive, parts of chapter 7 may be covered also by Tony.

Room: Lab 162 Math/CS Building
Time: 5:30 to 7:00
The exam will consist of two papers, one from each instructor: 

      From Tony                      From Paul

(a) for VCD students 50%        (a) for VCD students 50%
(b) for CS students  50%        (b) for CS students  50%

Sample CS Midterm Exam

Week 8

Mon 10/15 Forms and CGI (Chapter 8) (Paul)

Wed 10/17 Chapter 7: Color and Graphics; Color wheel, Itten's color contrasts, Analogous, Complementary colors;
          Color on the Web; Color and Readability(Tony)
* * * * * Milestone II * * * * *

Week 9

Mon 10/22 Forms and CGI (continued) (Paul)

Wed 10/24 Chapter 7: Color and Graphics; Color wheel, Itten's color contrasts, Analogous,
          Complementary colors; Color on the Web; Color and Readability (Tony)

Week 10

Mon 10/29 Client-side Scripting, Javascript, Chapter 9 (Paul)

Wed 10/31 Creating Graphics; Review Production Process of Photoshop and Dreamweaver, Critique and Lab Session (Tony)

Week 11

Mon 11/05 Javascript Continued Chapter 9 (Paul)

Wed 11/07 Introduction to Flash (Tony)

Week 12

Mon 11/12 Veterans Day, No Class, University Offices Closed

Wed 11/14 Working with Flash elements. Batch processing in Photoshop. Critique and Lab Session (Tony)
* * * * * Milestone III * * * * *

Week 13

Mon 11/19 DOM and DHTML (Paul)

Wed 11/21 Thanksgiving break, no class

Week 14

Mon 11/26 DOM and DHTML + class evaluation forms (Paul)

Wed 11/28 Critique and Lab Session (Tony)

Week 15

Mon 12/03 Perl and CGI.pm, Sessions and Cookies (Paul)

Wed 12/05 TEAMS MEET IN ROOM 162 CS, Readying Projects for Final Presentation; Final adjustment to project sites) (Paul and Tony)


Finals Week

Mon 12/10 (room CS 162) 5:00 to 7:30 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.

Here is the team presentation sequence.

Team Name The Webtastic Wizards (team01: Learning Through Stories)
Team Name Power Rangers (team02: Project FamilyLink)
Team Name The Green Monkeys (team03: Project Green Monkey Records)
Team Name Server-side Squadron (team04: Project Central Baptist Church Site)
Team Name Neek (team05: Project  Back to Earth Music Productions)
Team Name Team Undead (team06: Project The American Medical Physics, LLC site)
Team Name JetWeb (team07: Project A & J Sports)

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.
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