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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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Website accessibilities and potential errors
By Jasmin Gallant September 9, 2019 - 9:56amI have, while making my portfolio amd going threw debugging and fixing error, found out that you can use online tools to scan your website for potential errors. These are the tools that I used. Make a google search... -
Unit 7 - Using External Data Sources
By Jasmin Gallant September 8, 2019 - 3:46pmI followed some tutorials on Traversy media and went with the tutorials on w3schools and fix my email form to send data through the php file. ... -
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...
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CSS266:UNIT 0 learning diary
By Tamer Shihab October 29, 2019 - 10:18amHi all! My name is Tamer Shihab and welcome to my profile! I am an undergraduate student at McMaster University in my final year. This is my first time taking a web development course and I couldn't be more excited! you... -
Unit 5 - Writing JavaScript - DESIGN
By John Borg October 3, 2019 - 2:49pmAttached is a design run through for the implementations that I plan to implement in my website. I look forward to begin coding this and learning more about JavaScript in the process. I believe these improvements will benefit my website a great... -
Unit 5 - Writing JavaScript - IDEAS: Revised
By John Borg October 3, 2019 - 2:41pmI have been working on the design stage of this unit for sometime now. One of my ideas was that of a weather application embedded in the webpage. Upon further investigation, I found that this will need a JavaScript API to function. Thus, I am... -
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...
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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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