C S1 3 0 :Computing Concepts
Syllabus

Week 1: Aug 29

• Introduction
• History of Computing and the Web
• Lab 0:Making a Simple Web Page

Week 2: Sept 4

• Introduction to the World Wide Web
• Introduction to HTML
• Reading: In HTML for the World Wide Web:
  • Skim the introduction and chapter 1. We will come back to a lot of this information later.
  • Read Chap 2 and start reading Chap 3.
• Lab 1: Some Simple Formating

Week 3: Sept 11

• Representing Data
• Binary and Hexadecimal
• Representing Color
• Graphic File formats
• Lab 2: RGB Color Formats for your Web Page

Week 4: Sept 18

• Using Photoshop to optimize image format
• Linking text and images to other local pages, to local images
• Image manipulation: wrapping text , scaling, aligning
• horizontal rule lines
• lists
• Reading: read Chap 4 and Chap 5
• Lab 3: Organizing Your Web Page

Week 5: Sept 25

• Reading: read Chap 6-10
• Tables (chp 9), Frames (chp 10)
• Lab 4: Using Tables

Week 6: Oct 2

• Reading: read Chap 11
• Forms with email (chp 11)

Week 7: Oct 9

• Reading: read Chap 13-14
• Style Sheets
• Object Programming
• Lab 5: Using Cascading Style Sheets
• No class Friday October 13

Week 8: Oct 16

• Midterm
• Reading: read Chap 1 of JavaScript Text
• Lab 6: Getting Started with Alice and JavaScript
• Mid-Semester Day (Oct 20)

Week 9: Oct 23

• Reading: read Chap 2 of JavaScript Text
• Lab 7: JavaScript Practice Problems

Week 10: Oct 30

• Reading: read Chap 3 of JavaScript Text
• Lab 8: JavaScript Exercises

Week 11: Nov 7

• Lab 9: Functions in JavaScript

Week 12: Nov 14

• Lab 10: Hand of Cards
• Starting Povray

Week 13: Nov 21

Week 14: Nov 28

• Lab 11: POV-Ray

Week 15: Dec 5

Dec 8: classes end

Dec 9-10: Study Days

Dec 11: The final exam will be Monday Dec 11, 2-5pm

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