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COMP 266
Owner: Jon Dron
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This is closed group to support the SCIS course, COMP 266, Introduction to Web Programming. It's 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.
If you are a student of COMP 266 (revision 3) please request membership to join this group (you should only press the 'request membership' button once, and should expect a delay of up to one working day before your request is approved). Should you run into difficulties joining the group, please mail Ali Dewan, the course coordinator, at adewan@athabascau.ca
Please note that, from July 2019 - May 2020, Jon Dron (the course author and its usual coordinator) is on sabbatical, so the course will be coordinated during that perdiod by Ali Dewan (adewan@athabascau.ca)
Brief description: COMP 266: Introduction to Web Programming
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Unit 7 - Using External Data Sources
By Jasmin Gallant September 4, 2019 - 5:03pmFor my Unit 7 API proposal I would like to add a twitter account where I can post and receive tweets directly from my website. I read about the tweeter API and will continue to read about the Twitter API documentation in order to aplly the... -
Unit 6 Using Libraries "jQuery"
By Jasmin Gallant September 3, 2019 - 10:56amBefore starting unit 6 I went back to do some JavaScript syntax reading and some more tutorials on w3schools website.In unit 6 I learn about jQuery libraries, which is a breath of fresh air when you want to animate your webpages. You can create... -
Unit 7 - External Data Use
By Zakaria Bakkal April 28, 2019 - 11:05pmExternal Data Use Finally, the last unit in this course. It has been fun building a website from scratch and watching it evolve to something I never thought it would be possible. The step by step process works perfectly. Now, at this stage my... -
JavaScript classes and IE11
By Zakaria Bakkal April 28, 2019 - 8:28pmHow to make your JavaScript class work on IE11
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Unit 5 - Writing JavaScript - IDEAS
By John Borg September 6, 2019 - 7:03pmHello all,Below I will be discussing my proposal of the three JavaScript ideas that I would like to work on in this chapter. While experimenting and researching JavaScript further, I had many ideas that could possibly make my website more... -
Unit 5 - Addendum
By Jasmin Gallant September 4, 2019 - 5:18pmI have made modification before and during Unit 6 on my JavaScript code an added 2 games related to my website theme. It uses a game of dice and a game of rock paper scissors to create a promo code for the user to use on companies products that the... -
Unit 6 Using Libraries "jQuery"
By Jasmin Gallant September 3, 2019 - 10:56amBefore starting unit 6 I went back to do some JavaScript syntax reading and some more tutorials on w3schools website.In unit 6 I learn about jQuery libraries, which is a breath of fresh air when you want to animate your webpages. You can create... -
Unit 5 - Writing Javascript
By Jasmin Gallant September 1, 2019 - 5:24amI thought it would be easy doing this unit due to the fact I had a good understanding in programming, but it seems when things relate together through html, CSS and JavaScript. It can become more complicated to find solution and debugging the... -
Unit 5 - Writing Javascript
By Jasmin Gallant August 31, 2019 - 7:58pmHi, Ok so for my ideas I really have 2 ideas, but I am more falling towards the latter as I dont have any way of sending information from my contact form. Idea 1: Create a rolling image slideshow in the home page with different... -
Unit 4 - Script use, augmentation and learning diary
By Jasmin Gallant August 31, 2019 - 7:41pmExplanation and critique:I found this unit was easier due to the fact that I had an introduction in c++ last session and an intro in java this cession and I am comfortable around programming language structures. I learned a little about the... -
UNIT 3 CSS site styling LEARNING DIARY
By Jasmin Gallant August 31, 2019 - 6:44am Comments (1)Hi, In unit 3 CSS Styling, I was able to learn how to style my documents (html) using CSS. I had a hard time at first as I made the html with <br> everywhere and other elements to style the pages using only html. I also had to... -
Unit 3: Learning Diary & Submission
By John Borg August 5, 2019 - 9:07pmWhat was Completed:As soon as I found out that CSS was used to add website styling, I was extremely excited to learn this chapter. I knew that this unit would allow me to tap into my design creativity. Because CSS is more than just "adding... -
Unit 3: CSS Site StylingBook and Submission
By Michel Desmarais May 23, 2019 - 5:57pmI easily caught on to the basic CSS structure of coding: linking, creating CSS selectors and assigning attributes. Where I struggled at first was the layout and assigning positions to DIV elements. I found that the results can be quite...
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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 (1)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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A guide to CSS support in browsers
By David 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 features -
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.... -
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 (1)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...
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