Week-by-Week

1. Jan. 24: Introductions, syllabus

Syllabus
Internet defined
Protocols, IP Addressing, DNS, Clients and Servers
Protocols
TCP/IP, http, ftp, telnet, icmp, smtp
Web Addressing
ICANN, Domains, case-sensitivity
Philosophical issues
Free/Open Source culture vs. proprietary; democracy, culture
‘Techies Project’
Assignments:
(1):Log into Web account (2):Reply with Artist URL (3):Check out some text editors (4):Storage for Content

2. Jan.31: Build a server, make webpages

Download Example
Server vs. Client Software
Apache, browser, ftp client
Daemons
httpd, ftpd, smtpd, sshd
Making Webpages
Joys of html: Download example templates
WYSIWYG editors
Dreamweaver
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
Inline and external style sheets
Cyberduck FTP software
Assignments:
Make an example webpage and upload it.

3. Feb. 7: What You See Is What You Get (plus CSS)

Free eBooks:

4. Feb. 14: More styling with CSS and Intro to JavaScript

CSS: box model

 

Hexadecimal and Binary numbering (video)

5. Feb. 21: In-class Work: Continuing Javascript

‘Techies Project’
JavaScript interactivity in webpages
JS and CSS Examples
.css .js WhereTo
Uploading to the server

6. Feb 28: Media Javascript

Compression/Decompression (codec) schemes
Quicktime, MPEG-4, H264, WebM, Ogg-Vorbis

7. March 7: Spring Break
Spring Break ( No Classes )
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8. March 14: WordPress and Fun with Fonts

Working Video-js example
Font Awesome
* download *
Responsive Templates
Blog Post that coined the term ‘Responsive Design’
Responsive Fundamentals
— In-class Review:
-A review of the web-based work created by everyone in the class so far. These will
be presented for discussion and suggestions
about formal issues, genres and techniques.

9. March 21: The Cloud, Security and Free Culture

10. March 28: Web Conversations and Responsive Design

Example download
Internet Privacy Legislation
Aaron Swartz, Internets Own Boy
Web-mediated conversations
Data from the Internet, curl, IRC
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11. April 4: PHP and Dynamic Content

12. April 11: Internet of Things: Interactions over the Web

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13. April 18: “Hacktivism” with Visiting Artist

14. April 25: The Economics of Free

Tech Review:
‘Who Owns the Future?’

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15. May 2: In-Class Work Day

ColorFlow Slideshow template
In-Class Work Day
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16. May 9: Final Presentations

Visiting Artist: Matt Karl
Final project Reviews
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