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Week 5 COAP 2100

Topics Covered

  • Dealing with pictures (some reminders about formats and size)
  • Wikis
  • Dealing with Video formats (if time left)
    • Encoding of Flash videos

Teaching materials

Web sites to visit

The original
Online wiki hosting services
Mediawikis (Wikipedia engine)

Classroom activities

Monday
  • Images (reminder about formats and size)
  • Wikis: the concept, variants
    • Visit of some wikis (see wikisites above) + hands-on
    • Wikimedia and the Mediawiki engine, including some visits and hands on Mediawiki
    • Wiki politics (editing guidelines and governance)
    • Easy online wiki hosting (see Wiki#Wiki_hosting Wiki (Wiki hosting section)
Wednesday
  • Mid-term

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)

Homework

(none this week, see week 4)