Friday, November 29, 2013

SOFT600 COM2B Class 43 & 44

There was only one student. He worked  on the assignment.

Thursday, November 28, 2013

SOFT6008 COM2B Class 42

Students worked on the assignment

SOFT6007 ITM1 Class 44

Attendance was poor and the students that were there were studying for an exam in another module. But that's fine.

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

My laptop hard disk died

I guess I'm lucky it waited until Week 11 to give up. I'll find out soon if that backup software was actually working, or was just an elaborate hoax.

SOFT6008 COM2A Class 44

Students worked on the assignment

SOFT6008 DWEB2 Class 33 & 34

Students worked on the assigment

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

SOFT6007 ITM1 Class 42 & 43

Students worked on Assignment 2. I recommended that they spend some time on JavaScript. But few did.

SOFT6007 DWEB1 Class 43 & 44

Students worked on Assignment 2. I recommended that they spend some time on JavaScript. But few did.

SOFT6007 HTML Validator

You can check your HTML at validator.w3.org or you can do view source in most browsers and errors will be highlighted.

SOFT6007 Assignment 2 extension

The specification for assignment 2 states that the deadline in this Friday. But on Blackboard it says Dec 6. Noon on Dec 5 is the new deadline.

SOFT6007 Class 41

Students did an in class exercise in groups in preparation for next week's exam



SOFT6007 Web Development Fundamentals
Assessment 3

This is a one-sheet exam. Students are permitted to bring one sheet of A4 notes (front and back) into the exam. Students must hand up this question sheet and the sheet of notes with their answer books.


craps.html is a web page with JavaScript code that simulates the throw of two dice. If the sum of the dice is 7 then the text shows “You Win!” and it shows “You Lose” otherwise. When the button “Pull” is clicked a function pull is called to change the appearance of the page using the Document Object Model (DOM).





The HTML for the page is shown below, but the code for the pull function is not shown. Write in your answer book the code for the pull function.
The dice images are named die1.png, die2.png, die3.png, die4.png, die5.png, die6.png.


<html>
<head><title>Game of Craps</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function pull()
{
}
</script>
</head>

<body>

<div id="fisrt"><img src="dice1.png" name="die1" id="d1" width="100" height="100" alt="slot" /></div>
<div id="second"><img src="dice1.png" name="die2" id="d2" width="100" height="100" alt="slot" /></div>

<br/><br/><br/><br/>
<button type="button" onclick="pull()">Pull</button>
<div id="sometext">Blah blah blah</div>

</body>
</html> 



Monday, November 25, 2013

SOFT6007 DWEB1 Class 42

I arrived quite late. Sorry about that.

Students worked on the assignment. I briefly met with each student.

I asked students to verify that they can submit the assignment using Blackboard.

SOFT6008 COM2A Class 42 & 43

Students worked on the assignment. I met with each student to review progress

SOFT6008 Class 41

I started the class with a Q&A session, but no body had any questions.

We looked at the rest of the tile game.

I reminded students to verify that they are able to submit the assignment using Blackboard.

We finished up a bit early because I gave nothing more to say about JavaScript. 

Next week's class will be a Q&A session. 

Friday, November 22, 2013

SOFT6008 COM2B Class 39 & 40

Students worked on the assignment. We had to move after the first hour to accommodate open day

Thursday, November 21, 2013

SOFT6008 COM2B Class 38

Students worked on the assignment. I met with each student to discuss progress, but didn't have as much time as I would have liked for each. Maybe tomorrow. 

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

SOFT6007 DWEB1/ITM1 Assessment 3

Assessment will be an in-class written exam on Tuesday of Week 12, 03 December 2013 at 1100. Please be on-time or even early.

The exam will be on JavaScript. Students will be expected to understand how to
  • generate random numbers
  • modify images and text on the page using the DOM
  • code decisions (IF)
The exam will be a one-sheet exam. Student will be permitted to bring with them a single sheet of A4 notes, front and back.

SOFT6008 COM2A Class 40

Students worked on the assignment

SOFT6008 DWEB2 Class 39 & 40

Students worked on the assignment. I met with each student to review the progress

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Interactive distributed musical instruments | Project | CogNovo

Interactive distributed musical instruments | Project | CogNovo

SOFT6007 ITM1 Class 38 & 39

Students worked on the assignment

SOFT6007 DWEB1 Class 39 & 40

Students worked on Assignment 2

SOFT6007 Class 37



We looked at getting a domain name and hosting options.

[It was all a bit dull.]

SOFT6008 Room Change

Friday's class will move to C128 at 1200 to facilitate open day.

Monday, November 18, 2013

SOFT6008 DWEB2 Class 38

Students worked on the assignment

SOFT6007 DWEB1 Class 38

Students worked on the assignment

SOFT6008 Class 38 & 39

Students worked on the assignment

SOFT6008 Class37

We looked at form validation again in more detail.

I talked students through some of the tile game example.

It was a small bit dull really.

Thursday, November 14, 2013

SOFT6008 ITM1 Class 36

Students worked on assignment 2

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

SOFT6008 DWEB2 Class 36

Students worked on assignment 2.

SOFT6008 DWEB2 Class 35 & 36

Students worked on assignment 2. I met with each student to review the progress.

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

SOFT6007 ITM1 Class 34 & 35




We looked rollovers in JavaScript and the coins example. The important point is that in response to events on the page, code can be triggered that uses the DOM to modify the contents of the page after it has been drawn.

examples: rollover & coins

SOFT6007 DWEB1 Class 35 & 36



We looked rollovers in JavaScript and the coins example. The important point is that in response to events on the page, code can be triggered that uses the DOM to modify the contents of the page after it has been drawn.

examples: rollover & coins

SOFT6007 Class 33



We looked at how to do a three column layout but circumstances conspired against us. May students were late, it took me a while to get the projector working, and then a wasp distracted us. Week 09 is always a bit strange anyway.

I have modified fancy4.html since class to accommodate HTML5's new header and footer tags. fancy5.html uses fixed width columns and a background to fake column backgrounds that go all the way down.

Monday, November 11, 2013

SOFT6008 DWEB2 Class 34

Students worked on Assignment 2.

SOFT6007 DWEB1 Class 34

Students worked on Assignment 2 although most are still in the inspiration gathering phase. Students should pick a theme very soon.

I suggested that students go check out Google Fonts

Language learning conversation swap meet tonight

If you are learning a language this conversation swap event might be of interest

http://internationalclubcork.ie/


SOFT6008 COM2A Class 33 & 34

Students worked on Assignment 2.

SOFT6008 Class 33

We looked at HTML5 input types, the colour picker game, and the t-shirt examples.

We discussed Assignment 2.

Friday, November 8, 2013

SOFT6008 COM2B Class 31& 32

Only was student was working on stuff for this module. That's fair enough. We're all big boys. People can manage their time however they choose. 

SOFT6008 COM2 B Class 30

I talked students through the spud head example, and explained how it could be extended to made a pizza

Thursday, November 7, 2013

SOFT6007 ITM1 Class 32

I spoke briefly about Assignment 2.

Some students worked on JavaScript and others went exploring for inspiration for ideas for assignment 2.

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

SOFT6007 CA1 Results

The results of assessment 1 are now available here:
http://mcom.cit.ie/staff/Computing/cmanning/soft6007-2012/soft6007-ca1.pdf

The marks are out of 20 and are sorted by the last 4 digits of the student ID number.

SOFT6008 COM2A Class 32

I talked students through the Supdhead example. I explained how this could be extended to make a Pizza Ordering webpage where the pizza is drawn as the toppings are selected.

There are some pizza images here
http://colinmcit.blogspot.ie/2012/11/soft6008-pizza-images.html

Attendance was poor, reportedly due to the release yesterday of Call of Duty.

SOFT6008 DWEB2 Class 31 & 32

I talked students through the Supdhead example. I explained how this could be extended to make a Pizza Ordering webpage where the pizza is drawn as the toppings are selected.

There are some pizza images here
http://colinmcit.blogspot.ie/2012/11/soft6008-pizza-images.html

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

SOFT6007 ITM1 Class 30 & 31

We looked at position in CSS.

I spoke very briefly about Assignment 2

Animated GIFs



Saw some Animated GIFs in the lab today. This is an interesting YouTube video about animated GIFs.

Chooones



The song I'm humming all this week is Papaoutai by Stromae, currently the world's coolest Belgian.

SOFT6007 DWEB1 Class 31 & 32



We looked at position in CSS.

I spoke very briefly about Assignment 2.

SOFT6007 Class 29




We looked at JavaScript. We will return to JavaScript later in the module.


Friday, November 1, 2013

SOFT6008 Dropbox unshared

You may have noticed that you are no longer sharing a Dropbox folder with me.

We will use Blackboard for the assignment submissions.

SOFT6008 COM2B Class 27 & 28

Students worked on coding check digit calculations.  I advised students to revise HTML forms and to look at the built-in validation in HTML5 if they wanted a break from that.

Some students became distracted by an assignment due today for another module.  That's just the way of things.