Instructor: S. D. Comer
Office Hours: 9-9:50 MWF, or by appointment (after 2 pm any day).
Office Location: TH 327
Phone: 953-5037 (O) Email: steve.comer@citadel.eduCourse Policies: Text, Grading, Homework/Projects, Exams, and Final Exam.
Assignments: Consult the Class Schedule for a list of daily topics and Homework & Projects for a description of the work to be submitted.
Objectives: This course provides an introduction to issues involved in the design of web pages and web sites. Topics include: search engines, evaluation criteria, legal issues such as copyright, design issues, the basics of HTML and CSS, and a brief introduction to Java applets, JavaScript and database frontends. Each student will build a personal collection of web pages.
Textbook:
Patrick Carey, HTML and XHTML, Thomson- Course Technology, 2005
Patrick Lynch & Sarah Horton, Web Style Guide (online), Yale Univ. Press, 2002
Software:
See software resources
Attendance:
According to College policy a cadet who misses more than 15 minutes of class will be marked absent.Grading:
The course grade will be based on 2 exams, homework, web site, and a final exam. Each in-class exam counts 10%, the homework 15%, the web site will count 40%, and the final exam 25%.
Homework/Projects: Approximately 11 homework projects ranging in value from 10-25 points each will be assigned. These will allow you to demonstrate ideas and issues discussed in class. The homework must be completed in a timely fashion. Homework more than a week late will not be counted. Each student must construct his/her own web site. This requires three stages, the first of which will be to do a basic set of pages. In stages 2 and 3 you will add features discussed in the course. More detail is given in the Homework & Projects section of the course web site. The homework and web pages submitted must be your own work, not (slightly altered) copies of another person's files. Submitting pages/content copied from elsewhere may result in an 'F' in the course.Exams: There will be two in-class examinations. No make-up exam are given. See the schedule.