Vancouver Island University
CSc 115: Web Page Techniques
Spring 2018
Instructor
- Bill Hohman
- Office: 315-210a
- Office Hours: MW: 1:30 - 2:30 pm, TR: 2:30 - 3:30 pm
(and other prearranged times)
- E-mail: bill.hohman@viu.ca
- Web homepage: http://csci.viu.ca/~hohman/ or just csci.viu.ca/~hohman
Recommended Reference
- HTML Dog: The Best-Practice Guide to XHTML and CSS, by Patrick Griffiths (2006!!)
Evaluation
| Description |
Weight |
| Assignments |
25 % |
| Midterm Test |
25 % |
| Final Exam |
50 % |
Please note:
- Late assignments will be "charged" 20% per day.
-
You must pass (50% minimum) both the assignment and test/exam parts
of the course in order to pass the course.
Final percentages will be converted to letter grades using the VIU grade scale:
| Final Percent |
Grade |
| ≥ 80 |
A- |
| ≥ 68 |
B- |
| ≥ 55 |
C- |
Examination Dates
| Description |
Date |
| Midterm Test |
Wednesday before the Break (Feb 21) |
| Final Exam |
Exam "week" |
Note: No student will be allowed to write an exam early.
Course Content
Topics will include (in approximately the following order):
- Basic Web page construction - using HTML 5
- HTML standards
- Basic HTML Elements - headings, paragraphs, lists, tables
- (hyper)links - external and internal, absolute and relative "addresses"
- CSS
- selectors - HTML, id and class selectors, descendant selectors, ...
- size, colour and font properties
- the box model
- positioning and page layout (with HTML div elements and CSS rules)
- menu techniques
- psuedo-class selectors, ...
- Javascript:
- Event handling
- basic programming: objects, variables, assignment, functions, ...
- External CSS and JavaScript
- (New) HTML 5 Elements