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COSC 231: Internet Computing
FALL 2012

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Textbooks:

1. Lecture notes and Recordings
Date Topic InLab Other
9/5/2012 Intro to html make index.html  
9/10/2012 Beginning HTML through table Rewrite Dr Chaudhuri's home page using only html
make a link to your solution at Lab0910.html 		 
9/12/2012 HTML final lecture through colors and entities Formatting with tables (DON'T DO THIS IN THE FUTURE!)
See here
9/17/2012 CSS intro CSS inlab assignment  
9/19 intro: Firebug: DOM, Console; Javascript, http://jslint.org
temperatureConversion.html		 Write an html file that presents two buttons.
When the user clicks 'yellow', change the background color to yellow.
When the user clicks 'red' change the background color to red 		Hint:
(1) write a page that has a yellow background,
(2) cannabilize temperature conversion to write a page with one button ('yellow'),
(3) write the final page
9/24 Javascript popups
random number between 1 and 10

Code worked up in class 		Write HTML + Javascript: A Guessing Game
Give the user 3 tries to guess an integer between 1 and 10.
When the user guesses correctly, tell him he won.
When the user guesses incorrectly, tell him that and that the correct number is greater or smaller than his guess.
If the user fails after three tries, tell him he lost
version 1: using GUI components (text boxes)
version 2: using popup boxes (prompt and alert) 		Hint: (1) start with guessing between 1 and 4 and only one try allowed
then (2) guess between 1 and 4 with 2 tries allowed
10/1 W3Schools HTML DOM Tutorial Using an *extremely* simple HTML document, draw the DOM  
10/3   See Inlab assignment for today  
10/8 Javascript book pp 29 - 31
on timing events		 Inlab: change the slide show: add two buttons: start show and stop show that will start and stop an automatic slide show Turn on and off an interval timer
10/15 Starting Objects Inlab: screen saver Guidance for designing this software
This is being turned into a regular programming project, see Project 3 below.
10/17 Beginning Animation InLab: Add two buttons, Forward and Backward, to change Jack's direction.
Jack should bounce off walls rather than do wrap-around
10/22 Intro to Regular Expressions
W3schools.com RegExp
W3schools.com RegExpr tutorial 		   
10/24 Work on Regular Expressions problems from D&T  
10/29 Open lab with Sai    
10/31 Open lab work See Assignment below  
11/5 Open lab work See assignment below  
11/7 CSS: float property,
positioning property (absolute, fixed, relative)
Cookies 		(1)InLab for positioning:
Rewrite your index.html file so the information appears in two columns with different background colors. Make a few links or images for non-course stuff in the column on on the left. The links to COSC 231 work are in the column on the right.
Use fixed or absolute positioning.
(2)See Assignments (below) for Cookie assignment		  
11/12 Functions as Objects InLab for 11/12
11/14 Labwork only
11/19 Events, Chpt 13 and Javascript GUI project InLab for 11/19: Output the mouse position only on mouse up events on the Tic Tac Toe game!  
11/26 Simplified Intro to Java app GUI
ButtonDemo.java 		INLAB for 11/26: Using the online Java documentation or your Java book, do the following (not in any particular order):
(1) put the yes, no maybe buttons on the left hand side
(2) change the background color of the buttonPanel to something other than default
(3) write msg to the GUI in addition to System.out
(4) Use ColorChooser component (also write the appropriate event handler)
(5) Use a CheckBox or any other user input component except Button to obtain and output user input,
(also write the appropriate event handler) 		 
11/28 Graphics InLab: In Java, draw a picture using at least 5 graphics objects  
12/3 Applets    
12/5 Threads    
12/10    
12/12 The instructions for writing a "sampled and reconstructed" report

The example abridgement as developed in class 12/12 		 


2. Assignments
Date Distributed Date Due Topic/Link Comment
9/5 9/10 html: tutorial at w3schools.com through table nothing to turn in
9/10 9/12 Continue HTML tutorial through form nothing to turn in
9/12 9/17 Organize your website so that links to all inlabs and projects can be obtained
Begin the CSS tutorial at w3schools. Get through styling tables		 Demo your website in class 9/17
9/17 9/19 Read CSS tutorial on box model and positioning
Start to look at Javascript 		nothing to turn in
9/19 9/24 read Javascript - getting started;
be able to use simple internal javascript		 nothing to turn in
10/22 10/24 Go through W3schools on Regular Expressions
Go through RegExpr in our text 		nothing to turn in
10/31 11/7
11/14 		Copy Jan Wolter's Flood-It game to your own space
Figure it out, document it, identify (locate in the code) and explain the algorithm for filling the grid
and modify it by (1) increasing colors OR (2) increasing size options OR (3) giving user more moves before "YOU LOSE".
11/5 11/12
11/19		 Copy Kevin Sikes' Treasure hunt project and related files to your own space
Figure it out (no need to document), make two or more modifications that make it more fun/easy to play		You can use your own pics.
11/7 11/14 Write an HTML + Javascript document that will accept user input for a cookie name and value and expiration date. Save that cookie. (Note, the user gets to *name* the cookie) 
12/12 12/19 Write a "sampled and reconstructed" paper on either (1), (2), (4). Number of pages: 2-3, font size: 10-12pt, normal margins.
Write a one page (500 - 1000 words) "current events" report on the current state of copyright laws as they pertain to the music industry, or Hollywood, the Android controversy, or publishing. 		 


3. Projects
Date Distributed Date Due Topic/Link Comment
9/21/2012 10/3/2012 PP#1 HTML+Javascript: make a slide show Look at the online demo
10/8/2012 10/22/2012 PP#2 HTML + Javascript: die guessing game  
10/15/2012 10/22/2012 PP#3 Projectized version of Inlab screen saver from 10/15  
10/17/2012 11/5/2012
11/12/2012		 PP#4 Whack on Squibby Marco's robot You can use for Squibby OR balloon
(or neither, you don't have to use this jpg)
10/29/2012 11/19/2012
11/26/2012		 PP#5 Regular Expressions 11/7, I have expanded on the specification
11/26/2012 12/3 PP#6 Fractals and GUI in Javascript For Wednesday 12/5, get the Sierpinski triangle done
12/5/2012 12/17/2012 PP#7 Fractals and GUI in Java (applet)  


4. Quizzes and Tests

5. General (Syllabus, Calendar, etc.)

6. Resources


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