COAP:COAP-2100/week3-2012
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Week 3
Topics covered
- Using SVG within HTML5
- Crash course on HTML5 (if needed)
- Creating simple SVG
- Recall of XML principles (well-formed XML)
Teaching materials, software and reference manuals
- (1) SVG Tutorials
- See SVG for finding online tutorials
- See Using SVG with HTML5 tutorial for using SVG (Monday class)
- You can find a PDF of an SVG book in the worldclassroom / Documents folder
- (2) SVG-Edit online software
- svg-edit (Online SVG editor)
- SVG-edit 2.5.1 (stable version, in case the above won't work).
- If you are curious about the "about", follow the links on the svg-edit home page
- (3) Free SVG drawing tools you can install on your computer
- Inkscape Powerful, but more difficult drawing tool (export as "pure" SVG before pasting into HTML5)
- DIA, a popular open source diagramming tool can import/export SVG (Win/Mac/Linux). There are also portable app (Windows) and zip versions
- (4) Free SVG clipart
- Open Clip Art Library (openclipart.org)
Classroom activities
- Monday
- Introduction to HTML (if needed)
- Creating SVG with svg-edit
- Embedding SVG in HTML 5. See Using SVG with HTML5 tutorial
- Download SVG from http://openclipart.org
- Repairing clip art from openclipart.org with Inkscape (export "as SVG")
- Scaling SVG graphics
- Wednesday
Homework 3
- Create an HTML5 page
- Details TBA on Wednesday.