Jukka Virtanen
Fall 2012 Tentative Course Outline
Week 0
- 09/28/2012 Lecture 1: Internet and how it works, WWW, URL, TCP/IP Protocols
- Reading: Skim chapter 1 (1.1-1.3)
Week 1
- 10/01/2012 Lecture 2a: History of the internet, the web and the State of the Web today
- Lecture 2b: Markup Languages, XHTML vs. HTML5, Syntax, HTML Doc Structure, W3C Validation
- 10/03/2012 Lecture 3: HTML5 Elements and entities
- 10/05/2012 Lecture 4: HTML5 Lists, Tables, Forms
- Reading: Chapter 2
Week 2
- 10/08/2012 Lecture 5: CSS Intro, Levels, Syntax, Selectors, Inheritance
- Lecture 4b: HTML5 elements
Reading for the week: Chapter 3 - 10/10/2012 Lecture 6: More CSS: Font, Color, Background, and Text Properties, Box model, float, position, z-index PART I
- 10/12/2012 Lecture 7: More CSS: Font, Color, Background, and Text Properties, Box model, float, position, z-index PART II
Week 3
- 10/15/2012 Lecture 8: CSS based website example (See CSS project example in examples page)
- Homework 1 Due!
Reading: Finish reading chapter 3 - 10/17/2012 Lecture 9: Introduction to JavaScript
- Reading for the week: Chapter 4 (Do not have to read 4.7,4.11-4.13
- 10/19/2012 Lecture 10: JavaScript Conversions, I/O, Control Flow, random numbers
Week 4
- 10/22/2012 Lecture 11: JavaScript Functions, events, arrays
- Homework 2 due!
Reading for the week: Chapter 5 - 10/24/2012 Lecture 12: JavaScript arrays continued
- 10/26/2012 Lecture 13: Catchup/Review
Week 5
- 10/29/2012 Midterm I
- 10/31/2012 Lecture 14: JavaScript DOM continued.
- Homework 3 due!
- 11/02/2012 Lecture 15: JavaScript Cookies, Event Handling
Week 6
- 11/05/2012 Lecture 16: Introduction to PHP
- 11/07/2012 Lecture 17: PHP Output, control structures, Functions
- 11/09/2012 Lecture 18: PHP Arrays
Week 7
- 11/12/2012 Holiday!!
- 11/14/2012 Arrays cont.
- Homework 4 due!
- 11/16/2012 Lecture 19: Review
Week 8
- 11/19/2012 Midterm II
- 11/21/2012 Lecture 20: PHP Form Handling, session tracking, regular expressions
- 11/23/2012 Holiday!!
Week 9
- 11/26/2012 Lecture 21: PHP MySQL
- Homework 5 due!
- 11/28/2012 Lecture 22: PHP MySQL cont.
- 11/30/2012 Lecture 23: Ajax and social website example. See examples page for social_site.zip
Week 10
- 12/03/2012 Lecture 24: Social site continued. Intro to XML
- 12/05/2012 Lecture 25: XML DTDs
- 12/07/2012 Lecture 26: Regular expressions
- Final review
Homework 6 due!