CISC479 Sections 10

Meeting Time and Place

Section 10

Lecture: MTWRF 10:00 - 11:45 in Brown Lab 205

Instructor

Andrew Novocin

Office Hours: MTRF Join me for lunch most days (check with me during class).

Office Hours: MTRF 1:30-2:30 in Smith 439 (Fridays are the most likely to be cancelled so check with me).

Email: andynovo@udel.edu

Textbooks

These books are not required, some are free online, the ones which are not free will be treasured bookshelf friends, I promise.

• Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS by J. Snook
• Learning JavaScript Design Patterns by Addy Osmani
• CSS Secrets by Lea Verou
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Gamma et al.

Links

• Find our lecture notes here
• Pedagogical design of this course
• Course DJ site at DUBTRACK.fm
• Project Specs for our projects
• Personal Growth Report Guidelines
• Current state of W3C HTML W3C recommendations and drafts
• Current state of W3C CSS recommendations and drafts

Materials

• Laptop I would like students to bring a laptop regularly if possible, we will code in class. If not possible then email me and find a partner to "partner code" with. If some number of students bring a power strip then we can keep those batteries charged.
• GitHub Account Email me your github account name.
• Cloud9 Account Use your github account to register with Cloud9 IDE
• Work Ethic I am expecting 20-30 focused hours of your time every week to go towards this course. I wouldn't ask this of you without a promise of benefits (see "superpowers" below).
• Smart Phone This is just a request, if you can check your websites on your phones that will help your designs. We will have occasional surveys in class.

Superpowers that I wish to give you

• CSS, HTML, JS on your resume
• A nice set of portfolio pieces
• The ability to apply timeless software engineering principles to web tech
• A CSS pre-processor for your resume
• A JS MVC framework for your resume
• The ability to know just when you need the heavy machinery and when you can make clean DRY code vanilla
• A possible career as an advocate for object oriented CSS
• An overview of useful design patterns

Grading/Assessment

We will do 5 projects in this course (the last project will continue the 4th). You will work with a partner.

Project Day: We will present on the first class of each week excepting of course the first and last weeks. On project day each team will get 5 minutes to present their work to the class. After the presentations we will do a post-mortem together looking at what worked and what didn't work. Then we'll go over the specs of the next project. That night every student will submit a personal growth report for the project.

• Project 1: Monday January 11th
• Project 2: Tuesday January 19th (No class on the 18th)
• Project 3: Monday January 25th
• Project 4/5: Monday February 1st / Friday February 5th