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Important notice following the death of our web server administrator: new student accounts are not currently being created on the student web server, and no one is maintaining existing accounts. We are working as fast as possible on a solution but, until this is fixed, we do not require you to upload your site to the student server (though, if you do still have access, we highly recommend doing so). See Running a web server on your local machine for details of how to meet the requirements for the final unit, and my posts on the subject in the discussion forum for further information about the problem.
COMP 266
Owner: Jon Dron
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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
If you are a member of the group, please remember to explore the FAQ: it is full of useful hints and suggestions!
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 @ 8:44pmtrendintech.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 Minha SOHN April 8, 2022 - 4:24pmHere are the learning Diary of UNIT 1: Site DesignPlease note Mock-up and Site Map is attached in Diary.Identify and write the main themes and purposes of your site. The first step is to decide what kind of website you want to...Unit 6: Learning Diary
By Harsheen Sodhi January 28, 2022 - 5:20pmAttached below is a zipped folder of my Unit 6 HTML, CSS and Javascript/JQuery files (and cited references) and a pdf of my learning diary. The link to my website is: https://student.athabascau.ca/~harsheenso/Comp266/Unit6/ Thanks,Harsheen...Unit 5 Learning Diary
By Harsheen Sodhi January 25, 2022 - 7:38pmAttached below is a zipped folder of my Unit 5 HTML, CSS and Javascript files (and cited references) and a pdf of my learning diary. The link to my website is: http://student.athabascau.ca/~harsheenso/Comp266/Unit5/
- CHENXIN ZHANG published a blog post Unit 6 Jquery proposal
- Mumuxu Shah joined the group COMP 266
- Dekiah Wilson joined the group COMP 266
- CHENXIN ZHANG uploaded the file Unit 5 code and diary and outcome map
- CHENXIN ZHANG published a blog post Unit 5 learning diary with file
- Matthew Lewis published a blog post Unit 1 - Site Design and Diary Entry
- Holly Gunawardena uploaded the file Unit #4 Assignment
- CHENXIN ZHANG published a blog post Unit 5 - 3 ideas about JS
- CHENXIN ZHANG published a blog post Unit 5 - 3 ideas about JS
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...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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