Class activities will be recorded here.

This page has the entire plan for the semester. For weeks in the future, consider it a plan subject to change. For weeks in the past consider it a record of what we have done. As for the current week, keep a watch for updates and changes.

Week 1 : January 20 - January 26

• Mon

  Martin Luther King's Birthday - no class

  Wed

  Introduction (pdf)
  Introduce the structure and goals of the course along with a few broad aspects of the web.
  Traceroute Google Earth Example
  Text Chapter 1

  Fri

  HTML Basics (pdf)
  Brief intro to HTML with pointers on how to learn more as you go along.
  Examples used in lecture

Week 2 : January 27 - February 2

• Mon

  Style versus Substance … CSS (pdf) (video)
  HTML is content while CSS defines how it appears.
  Examples used in lecture
  Text Chapter 18

  Wed

  CSS Through Examples (pdf) (video)
  Cascading Style Sheets for fonts, contents division, margins.
  Examples used in lecture

  Fri

  Cascading Style Sheep Continued (video)
  More on margins, colors, headers, units for widths.
  Examples used in lecture
  Quiz 1 has been posted

Week 3 : February 3 - February 9

• Mon

  PHP Introduction (pdf) (video)
  Parser start and stop, echoing content and string manipulation.
  Examples used in lecture
  Text Chapter 3

  Wed

  PHP Dynamic Linking, Variables (video)
  Expressions, Variables, Dynamic linking and shared components in particular.
  Examples used in lecture
  Text Chapter 4

  Fri

  PHP and HTML Form Processing (pdf) (video)
  Creating and using objects starting simple with objects to consolidate site information.
  Examples used in lecture
  Text Chapter 5

Week 4 : February 10 - February 16

• Mon

  PHP Client Server Interaction - forms
  Using forms in the context of PHP to move information and change page behavior. No video today due to equipment failure.
  Examples used in lecture
  Text Chapter 11 and 12

  Wed

  PHP Arrays and Objects (pdf) (video)
  Key-value pairs, array packing and unpacking, using arrays of objects.
  Examples used in lecture
  Text Chapter 6

  Fri

  Recapping HTML, PHP and CSS (video)
  Through several examples review common idioms associated with page layout, commen elements, etc.
  Text Chapter 7

Week 5 : February 17 - February 23

• Mon

  PHP and Array Reduction (video)
  Using arrays of objects stored in a file, starting with reading and writing a users file.

  Wed

  Midterm 1 Preparation (pdf) (video)
  Fifty things you now know. Managing session state to indicate login status. Hashing passwords
  Fifty things you now know

  Fri

  Midterm 1

Week 6 : February 24 - March 2

• Mon

  CT 310 Authentication - Case Study (pdf) (video)
  Putting together parts into a whole - the CT 310 Authentication System
  Getting copies of CT 310 pages (PHP)

  Wed

  Case Study Continued (video)
  More on Authentication, HTTPS.

  Fri

  Authentication then Tools (pdf) (video)
  Wrapup Authentication. Developer Browswer Tools

Week 7 : March 3 - March 9

• Mon

  Databases & MySQL (pdf) (video)
  Introduction to databases and MySQL
  Examples used in lecture

  Wed

  Flat Tables in MySQL (video)
  Hands on exploration of SQL through direct interaction with the MySQL server.

  Fri

  Relations in MySQL (video)
  Introduce relations and review the basis: create, insert, drop, select and join
  Text Chapter 8

Week 8 : March 10 - March 16

• Mon

  PHP and SQLite - Music Part 1 (pdf) (video)
  Introduce PHP interaction with SQLite through a series of coordinated examples.
  Examples used in lecture
  Text Chapter 9

  Wed

  PHP and SQLite - Music Part 2
  Querying from within PHP.
  Video capture failed on this day.
  Text Chapter 10

  Fri

  PHP and SQLite - Music Part 3 (video)
  Sorting, inserting, removing and injection.

Week 9 : March 17 - March 23

• Mon

  Spring Break

  Wed

  Spring Break

  Fri

  Spring Break

Week 10 : March 24 - March 30

• Mon

  An Image is Worth … (pdf) (video)
  A step into the realm of image formats and image editing.
  Examples used in lecture

  Wed

  Images continued (video)
  Images continued

  Fri

  Image editing (pdf)
  Image editing case study - buliding a Logo. (Video capture failed on this day)
  Text Chapter 13

Week 11 : March 31 - April 6

• Mon

  Image editing, JavaScript Introduction (pdf)
  Image editing continued. Javascript fundamentals including the tie between CSS and JavaScript. (Video capture failed on this day)
  Examples used in lecture

  Wed

  JavaScript Examples (video)
  Covered the first four JavaScript Examples. Also reviewed material for the Midterm
  Things to know from past 6 weeks

  Fri

  Midterm 2

Week 12 : April 7 - April 13

• Mon

  Project 2 and Multifactor Authentication (pdf) (video)
  Discussion of Project 2 then Multifactor Authentication

  Wed

  JavaScript Examples Continued (video)
  Finish dicussion of authentication, then review last three examples from Show 15
  Chapter 16

  Fri

  JavaScript timed events and animation (pdf) (video)
  JavaScript continued with an emphasis on Animation and Objects.
  Examples used in lecture
  Chapter 17

Week 13 : April 14 - April 20

• Mon

  Introduction to AJAX (pdf) (video)
  Asynchronous client server intereaction is the basis of the modern web.
  Examples used in lecture

  Wed

  AJAX Continued (video)

  Fri

  Project 3 then AJAX Continued (video)
  Discussion of Project 3. Unintensional demonstration of Cross-site scripting block, see updated slides and code example.

Week 14 : April 21 - April 27

• Mon

  HTML 5 Drawing and Video (pdf) (video)
  HTML 5 Drawing Canvas
  Examples used in lecture

  Wed

  HTML 5 Video, Detailed Project 3 Discussion (video)
  Detailed Q & A on Project 3, wrapup of HTML 5 Video

  Fri

  AJAX POST, Project 3 Cross Site Authentication (video)
  POST vs. GET in AJAX. Problem solving exercise and discussion vis-_-vis one Project 3 site authenticating requests relative to another.

Week 15 : April 28 - May 4

• Mon

  Content Management Systems and WordPress (pdf) (video)
  Content Management in general and WordPress in Particular

  Wed

  Project 3 API Standards Meeting (video)
  Discussion and selection of API to support Confederation of Social Media Sites

  Fri

  WordPress in the College of Natural Sciences (video)
  Guest Lecture by CNS Information Technology Coordinator Jim Cox. Overview of how CNS relies upon WordPress

Week 16 : May 5 - May 11

• Mon

  AJAX Confederation Keys, Design (pdf) (video)
  Full Example of AJAX Confederation Key Authentication, Discussion of Web Design
  Examples used in lecture

  Wed

  Web Development at CSU (video)
  Q & A with Adam Warren, Middleware Web Developer, CSU

  Fri

  Short Semester Wrapup then Project 3 Lab (video)
  Present the 110 things you now know, then focus our attention on Project 3
  Handout: 110 Things you now know
  Example - API Tester