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** Principles, i.e. what is a wiki, in which contexts are they popular, kinds of wiki engines (roughly) | ** Principles, i.e. what is a wiki, in which contexts are they popular, kinds of wiki engines (roughly) | ||
** Mediawikis (create a page, titles, paragraphs and list, internal and external links, categories, simple use of pictures) | ** Mediawikis (create a page, titles, paragraphs and list, internal and external links, categories, simple use of pictures) | ||
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Revision as of 08:21, 15 September 2009
Week 5 COAP 2100
Topics Covered
Teaching materials
Classroom activities
Mid-term exam (provisional !)
You will be allowed to use all materials (open book, open Internet). However, use of a communication software (including websites like Facebook) is strictly forbidden. Offenders will get an F.
- Subjects that will be tested
- Be able to find information in the Firefox Codeburner/SitePoint HTML and CSS reference
- Understanding of underlying principles of web formats (HTML, XHTML and CSS) including some the history
- Be able to create HTML code and detect errors
- DocType declarations (superficially, e.g. understand the difference between the strict and transitional HTML4x/XHTML1x models)
- Required tags: html,body,title,link,style,a,img,h1,h2,h2,p,blockquote,ul,ol,li,div,span
- Required attributes: style + the elementary attributes of the HTML a,img and link tags.
- Note: I may design an exam question that asks you to find the definition of another HTML tag or attribute.
- Simple CSS styling
- Basic selectors
- Class and IE selector
- Simple boxing properties (not positioning)
- Simple text properties, e.g. fonts, color, line spacing, left/right/center alignment
- Color models
- Principles of RGB, RGBa, HSL and HSLa (not HSV) and use for CSS color and background-color values.
- Simple design principles
- Be able to comment on a web site design
- Use of color palettes (basic principles)
- Testing a web site with users
- XML
- Roles of XML, types of XML languages
- XML Formalism, wellformedness
- The concept of XML grammars and validity (no technical details about DTDs, XML Schemas, etc.)
- Exam type
- The exam will be a quiz with various types of questions(e.g. MCQs, fill-in, debug, short answers)