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COMP 266
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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 Jon Dron, the course coordinator, at jond@athabascau.ca
Brief description: COMP 266: Introduction to Web Programming
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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.... -
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... -
Site-Design & Learning Outcomes
By Almohannad Alhabbal August 23, 2017 - 5:22amPlease, open the attached file, thanks. -
Unit 0 Intro and Learning Diary
By Zakaria Bakkal July 5, 2017 - 3:07pm Comments (1)Hello everyone, my name Zakaria and you can call me Zack. I am 35 years old and live in Alberta. I'm taking this course because it seems interesting and also any programmer should at least know how to make websites I believe. As I was looking for...
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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... -
Unit Seven Reflection Diary
By Jesse McCarthy December 31, 2016 - 9:16pmLive Site @ -> http://student.athabascau.ca/~jessemc11/ Work Competed and Learning Outcomes: The learning outcome specified for this unit is: “When you have completed this unit, you should be able to use JavaScript to access... -
Unit Six Reflection Diary
By Jesse McCarthy December 31, 2016 - 8:19pmWork Competed and Learning Outcomes:The only learning outcome that was listed is: “se JavaScript libraries (e.g. ,JQuery) to create dynamic pages.” In this unit, I’ve made the following... -
JQuery Proposal
By Jesse McCarthy December 30, 2016 - 12:23amUsing Jquery I will create two tiles on the homepage, below the featured game banner. Each will take the same amount of space, and will be the same height as the banner above. The tile on the left will be a link to a parallax tutorial, and will... -
Unit Five Reflection Diary
By Jesse McCarthy December 29, 2016 - 11:54pmWork Competed and Learning Outcomes: Write well-structured, easily maintained JavaScript code following accepted good practice, including general appearance and form: well-commented, properly laid out, appropriate... -
Review of Three JavaScript Ideas
By Jesse McCarthy December 18, 2016 - 4:21pmFirst, I would like to implement a banner on my homepage, acting as a link to a game I’ve created called Infinite Skies. The banner will simply display stars with randomly generates properties, that fade in and out from the canvas. There will... -
MUST HAVE DEVELOPER TOOL
By Jesse McCarthy August 23, 2016 - 9:24pmGoogle Canary https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/canary.html Browser specifically made for developers! You can edit your css and html in realtime! view your pages in any device resolution! This is a must have for any 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... -
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... -
JavaScript Has Won: Run Flash with Mozilla Shumway and Develop Silverlight in JS with Fayde - Scott...
By Jon Dron 18 February 2015 @ 1:58pm Comments (1)www.hanselman.com - Great article on how JavaScript has pretty much taken over as the language of the Web (and more). It first discusses Shumway, a JavaScript-based Flash (SWF) renderer that runs as an XPI extension in Mozilla browsers such as Firefox. It is described... -
Resubmit: Unit 6: JQuery Design
By Nirmal Mirza January 17, 2015 - 1:25amHello everyone! Just wanted to apologize for not waiting for formal feedback due to the short amount of time I had.Learning Diary & Mapping of Learning Outcomes: JQuery Design:...
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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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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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