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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 3 - Learning Diary & Submission
By Sonia D July 12, 2019 - 12:28pm Comments (1)Hello, Here is my learning diary and submission for Unit 3. -
Useful Landing Links for creating your portfolio/supporting evidence
Started by David Scott April 30, 2019 - 2:15pm Replies (1) Last reply by Jon Dron May 1, 2019 - 1:29pmMake sure you don't miss some of your contributions to the group:(replace YOURUSERNAME with the username on the landing/student website) ALL YOUR GROUP... -
Unit 6 - Using Libraries - JQuery
By Zakaria Bakkal April 21, 2019 - 9:01pm Comments (1)Using LibrariesMy ideas of using JQueryI have 3 files that help to add the items to the shopping cart. I will use JQuery to write a single file that deals with all items and the items added depend on the page the user is in, As each item is... -
Unit 2 - Learning Diary Blog
By Paolo Marco Haya February 10, 2019 - 1:20pmThis is the link or SCIS link for my Unit 2 work. What went wrong...At first im a little confuse, dont know where to start and what needs to be done for unit 2. I find the instructions vague without specific end... -
Unit 4: Learning Diary + Submission
By Jamal Habash July 18, 2018 - 8:56pmHey All! Here is my Learning Diary for Unit 4.
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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... -
Unit 5 - JavaScript submission
By Trevor Gibbons May 18, 2019 - 10:51amJournal Entry for Unit 5 WeblinksSite location: http://student.athabascau.ca/~trevorgi4/Unit5/Animation 1: http://student.athabascau.ca/~trevorgi4/Unit5/projectControls.htmAnimation... -
Unit 6 - Using Libraries - JQuery
By Zakaria Bakkal April 28, 2019 - 7:09pmExtend the functionality of my site by using libraries of classes and functions. -
Unit 6 - Using Libraries - JQuery
By Zakaria Bakkal April 21, 2019 - 9:01pm Comments (1)Using LibrariesMy ideas of using JQueryI have 3 files that help to add the items to the shopping cart. I will use JQuery to write a single file that deals with all items and the items added depend on the page the user is in, As each item is... -
Unit 5 - Writing JavaScript - Extra
By Zakaria Bakkal April 19, 2019 - 1:58amI have made some changes to my last submission. The changes are minor, some were corrections in the scripts and a bug in displaying the cart quantity next to the cart icon. And, also I've added an indicator that tells the user an item has been... -
unit 5 - Writing JavaScript
By Zakaria Bakkal April 17, 2019 - 10:55pmWriting JavaScriptThis was my favorite unit thus far because I get to write code. My 3 scripts were to add functionality to the add Item buttons on Arganoil.html, Exfoliatingsoap.hmtl, and Lavaclay.html. Also, display items on the shopping cart... -
Unit 4 - Script Use and Augmentation
By Zakaria Bakkal April 7, 2019 - 2:42amAdded a JavaScript file that helps displaying a Hamburger Menu icon for mobile devices with maximum width of 767px. -
Unit 3 - CSS Site Styling - Responsiveness
By Zakaria Bakkal April 6, 2019 - 2:44amAdded responsiveness tot he website. Made some changes. -
Unit 0 - Learning Diary and Assignment
By Sean Tolley January 3, 2019 - 10:02pmHi fellow Comp 266 students, My name is Sean Tolley and I am looking forward to designing a website that I will be able to use for future business. I have no previous experience in programming or designing websites, and am looking forward to...
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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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