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COMP 266
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This group supports the SCIS course, COMP 266, Introduction to Web Programming. COMP266 is a course about building dynamic web pages, covering the Web development process, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, the use of JavaScript libraries and AJAX. See http://www.athabascau.ca/syllabi/comp/comp266.php for more information.
Should you run into difficulties joining the group, please mail Jon Dron, the course coordinator, at jond@athabascau.ca
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If you are a prospective student, see Prerequisites for COMP 266 for detailed information on what we expect students to be able to know and do before starting the course.
AI Tutor Pro | Contact North | Contact Nord
By Jon Dron 14 January 2024 @ 12:43pmwww.aitutorpro.ca - This is an excellent (and free) online tutor for just about anything, provided by Contact North, an online learning organization based in Ontario. I don't recommend using it if you know absolutely nothing about a topic but, as long as you have even...A guide to CSS support in browsers
By David H. Scott 6 February 2019 @ 5:04pmwww.smashingmagazine.com - Good article with tips on ways to create fallback CSS for browsers that don't support new featuresFirefox Quantum
By Jon Dron 14 November 2017 @ 11:09am Comments (1)www.mozilla.org - The new version of Firefox is very sleek and very fast, while retaining backwards compatibility with older plugins. An easy upgrade for users of the previous version, a quick install for everyone else. An absolute must-have for any web developer....Why Every Developer Should Learn Javascript
By Jon Dron 1 September 2017 @ 8:44pm Comments (3)trendintech.com - Not the greatest use of English in the world, and not the most sophisticated explanation of the benefits of the language, but none-the-less a fairly good explanation from TrendinTech of why it is useful to learn JavaScript, that closely mirrors the...JavaScript Is Eating The World
By Jon Dron 25 August 2017 @ 1:37pm Comments (3)dev.to - Welcome news for students of COMP266 - skills in JavaScript are becoming more and more valuable every day, albeit driven mainly by NodeJS, the dominant server-side variant of JavaScript that is not (yet) addressed in the course. JavaScript...DebugCSS Bookmarklet for easily fixing CSS/HTML.
By Joseph Lien 31 March 2017 @ 9:21amimbrianj.github.io - Here's a neat tool I found recently that is really helpful when you are working with CSS and HTML. It's a bookmarklet you can just drag to your browser's bookmark toolbar. Click it, and it will show several messages of note that will help you write...PCjs: The Original IBM PC in Your Browser
By Jon Dron 23 November 2015 @ 4:02pm Comments (2)http://www.pcjs.org/ - This is one of the most remarkable uses of in-browser JavaScript I have ever seen. It is an IBM PC emulator, and it really works. Actually, I think it is a fair bit faster than my first (mid-80s) PC and it certainly looks a lot better on my modern...LiveCoding - JavaScript channels
By Jon Dron 22 August 2015 @ 11:32amwww.livecoding.tv - Livecoding is a site where you can watch people code, in real-time. If you sign up, you can sometimes interact with them and other watchers too. This is, at least potentially, an extremely valuable educational experience, with a whole bunch of...
Unit 1 Learning Diary
By Arvind Shastri November 19, 2024 - 5:55pmWork Done For This Unit In this unit, I started building my website design idea by brainstorming its purpose (a personal portfolio), its potential visitors, and building their personas. I used this information to build scenarios about how they...
Unit-2 Reflection
Last updated February 20, 2024 - 9:59pm by Ashutosh SinghIn this Unit, I concentrated on understanding and using Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) to make organized websites. Understanding HTML foundations, ensuring standards compliance, and enhancing accessibility by the personas and situations...-
Reflection Unit 1
Last updated February 16, 2024 - 12:37am by Ashutosh SinghWhen reflecting on the tasks that were assigned, I saw that the design phase—which included creating mock-ups and mapping out sites—presented significant difficulties because of the fine balance that had to be struck between creativity... -
Unit-1 Reflection
Last updated February 13, 2024 - 1:11am by Ashutosh SinghWhen reflecting back on the tasks that were assigned, I saw that the design phase—which included creating mock-ups and mapping out sites—presented significant difficulties because of the fine balance that had to be struck between... -
Unit 1 -Reflection
Last updated February 13, 2024 - 12:17am by Ashutosh SinghWhen reflecting back on the tasks that were assigned, I saw that the design phase—which included creating mock-ups and mapping out sites—presented significant difficulties because of the fine balance that had to be struck between...
A guide to the Student Server
Started by Kimberly Lindsay January 29, 2022 - 3:15pm Replies (9) Last reply by Shivam Vyas April 20, 2022 - 3:43pmHey everyone, I really struggled with this incredibly simple task for way too long and had a lot of responses that didn't fully answer my questions, so I made a quick reference guide for the newbies who aren't sure how to upload their .html files to...Unit 5 - Javascript Learning Diary
By Hassan Jasim August 25, 2022 - 2:15pmIn this unit, I tackled JavaScript more in-depth. I defined 4 functions that I was going to develop, created workflow diagrams for each and pseudo code for them as well. This was a little different than what I am normally used to as with most...Firefox Quantum
By Jon Dron 14 November 2017 @ 11:09am Comments (1)www.mozilla.org - The new version of Firefox is very sleek and very fast, while retaining backwards compatibility with older plugins. An easy upgrade for users of the previous version, a quick install for everyone else. An absolute must-have for any web developer....PCjs: The Original IBM PC in Your Browser
By Jon Dron 23 November 2015 @ 4:02pm Comments (2)http://www.pcjs.org/ - This is one of the most remarkable uses of in-browser JavaScript I have ever seen. It is an IBM PC emulator, and it really works. Actually, I think it is a fair bit faster than my first (mid-80s) PC and it certainly looks a lot better on my modern...
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