COAP:COAP-2100/week6

Week 6

Topics Covered

We shall have a (superficial) look at key elements of client-side web page interactivity

• HTML forms
• JavaScript
• DOM
• DHTML (HTML + DOM + JavaScript + CSS)

Teaching materials

• Javascript tutorial - basics
• DHTML
• DOM (just some links)

Classroom activities

Monday

• Exam feedback
• JavaScript lecture using Javascript tutorial - basics
• Some JavaScript code modifications

Wednesday

• HW 4 feedback
• DHTML lecture
• Code modification to examples shown in the DHTML tutorial

Homework

Task

• Create a DHTML page that has a least one button allowing the user to change a style or something else in a page
• You may reuse code from the DHTML page starting from the Collections and creation of elements section

To get an A

• Create a page with real contents and implement DHTML changes that make sense for a given target population.
• Explain somewhere in the page what pressing the button(s) will do or at least make the button labels self-explaining.

Due

• Before Monday week 7 class

Submission

• Submit the file to the worldclassroom.