*** The below is subject to change throughout the semester ***
Class 1 — 9/2/2015 — Hello World
Handout and Discuss Syllabus, Resources, and Classroom Policies
Set-up Accounts and Software:
Lecture:
Exercises:
2 Favorite Websites (PiratePad)
Assignments due Next Week:
Reading (Kenneth Goldsmith — If it Doesn’t Exist on the Internet, It Doesn’t Exist) & Response
Class 2 — 9/9/2015 — The Internetz
Lecture:
How the Internet Works & How to Stay Organized
Exercises:
Assignments due Next Week:
Reading & Response (Why No One Clicked on the Great Hypertext Story by Steven Johnson)
Codecademy — HTML & CSS Track: Introduction to HTML, HTML Structure: Using Lists
Finish and Submit File Organization and Path Navigation Exercises
Bring in a Feature Article from Newspaper or Magazine.
Class 3 — 9/16/2015 — Planning a Website and HTML Part 1
Lecture:
Site Planning & Basic HTML Tags
Exercises:
Assignments due Next Week:
Reading & Response (From Zero to One and From One to Zero by Rob Giampietro and David Reinfurt)
Finish and Submit In-Class Exercises
Codecademy HTML STRUCTURE: TABLES, DIVS, AND SPANS, INTRODUCTION TO CSS, CSS CLASSES AND IDS
Project 1: Style an Interview — Part 1 Planning
Class 4 — 9/30/2015 — CSS Part 1
Lecture:
Form and Content II — CSS Part 1
Exercises:
Assignments due Next Week:
Reading & Response: Good Taste Doesn’t Matter
Finish and Submit In-Class Exercise (Style Carl Dair)
Project 1: Part 2—Wireframe, New Goals, Rough Static Mockups
Class 5 — 10/7/2015 — Visual Hierarchy in Web Design
Lecture:
Exercises:
Assignments due Next Week:
Reading & Response ( The Observatory “Inside the Lines” Podcast (0:00 – 10:22) and A Fine Balance )
Finish and Submit Site Grid Exercise
Codecademy—HTML & CSS Track: CSS ELEMENT POSITIONING
Project 1 Production Continue
Class 6 — 10/14/2015 — CSS Layout
Lecture:
Exercises:
Assignments due Next Week:
*No Reading and Response this week
Finish and Submit In-Class Exercises
Project 1 Finish
Class 7 — 10/21/2015 — Project 1 Critique [Mid-Term]
Project 1 Critique
Hand back Mid-Term Evaluations over the weekend
Assignments due Next Week:
Reading & Response
Class 8 — 10/28/2015 — Project 1 Critique [Mid-Term]
Hand back Mid-Term Evaluations over the weekend
Assignments due Next Week:
Class 9 — 11/4/2015 — CSS Part 3
Lecture:
Advanced CSS Part 1: Backgrounds, Gradients, Border-radius, and Transforms
Exercises:
Recreate a Muller Brockmann Poster
Assignments due Next Week:
Finish Positioning Exercises
Read 30 CSS Selectors You Must Memorize
Class 10 — 11/11/2015 — Advanced CSS Motion
Lecture:
Advanced CSS Continued — Motion
Exercise:
Recreate a Muller Brockmann Poster Parts 1 and 2
Assignments due Next Week:
Reading & Response: Captives of the Cloud Part 1—Metahaven
Upload Muller Brockmann Poster Exercise to Github
Final Project: Part 1 (Research, Goals / Purpose, Site Map)
Class 11 — 11/18/2015 — Advanced HTML
Lecture:
Advanced HTML: Tables, Video, Audio
Exercises:
Assignments due Next Week:
Reading & Response: Metahaven Captives of the Cloud Part II
Finish and Submit In-Class Exercise
Final Project: Part 2 (Wireframes & Mockups)
Class 12 — 11/24/2015 — Responsive Web Design
Lecture:
Exercises:
Assignments due Next Week:
Reading & Response: Metahaven Captives of the Cloud Part III
Finish and Submit In-Class Exercises
Final Project: Begin Production (i.e a good start would be to semantically markup all content)
Class 13 — 12/2/2015 — Images and Interaction
Lecture:
Exercises:
Assignments for Next Week:
Reading & Response: The Museum Interface
Finish and Submit Exercises
Final Project: Continue Production
Class 14 — 12/9/2015 — Troubleshooting, Validation, Accessibility, & Publishing to the Web
Lecture:
Troubleshooting, Validation, & Publishing to the Web
Exercises:
Take a Dev-Tools Tutorial
Assignments due Next Week:
*No Reading or Response this Week
Finish Final Project
Create Final Documentation Package (Download Checklist)
Complete Course Evaluations
Class 15 — 12/16/2015 — Final Projects Crit
Hand in Class Documentation Package