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Week 1
(Introductions + HTML)
6/8 — 6/12
Monday
- Introductions
- Syllabus
- Walk through class website
- Software and materials
- Overview of terms and technologies
- Website examples + my work
- Go over class Slack
- Make sure you’ve joined the class Slack
- J.R. Carpenter, A Handmade Web
- Laurel Schwulst, My Website is a Shifting House...
- *Optional* Ursula K. Le Guin, A Rant on Technology
Tuesday
- HTML Basics Slideshow
- Look through w3schools HTML tags
- HTML basics walkthrough
- Introduce Article project
- Work on Article project (part 1)
Wednesday
- CSS Basics Slideshow
- Look through w3schools CSS properties
- CSS basics walkthrough
- Work on Article project (part 2)
Thursday
- Make GitHub account
- Set up Class Site
- Email me the url to your class site
Friday
- Go through the Favicon tutorial and add a favicon to Class Site
- Work on Article project variations (part 3)
- Work on class site
- Keep working on Class Site
- Keep working on Article project (due 6/19)
- Add the article project to your class site
- Add an about page to your class site
- Choose 1 reading to respond to
Monday
- 1st reading response
- Brief discussion of readings
- Introduce Secret project (due 6/22)
- Box Model & box-sizing
- Positioning 1 (basics)
- Look through w3schools positioning tutorial
Tuesday
- Recap basic positioning
- Positioning 2 (flexbox)
- Work on Flexbox Exercise
Wednesday
- Go over handy Atom plugins
- Recap flexbox
- Interaction
Thursday
- Typography
- Animation
- Work on Animation Exercise
- Finish Secret project
Friday
~ No Class ~
Monday
- 2nd reading response
- Secret project
- Brief discussion of readings
- Secret project presentations
- Introduce Screensaver project (due 6/29)
- Introduce Final project (due 7/8)
Tuesday
- Responsiveness (media queries & relative units)
- Work on Responsiveness Exercise
Wednesday
- Javascript 1 (basics)
- Work on Javascript Exercise (Part 1)
Thursday
- Javascript 2 (jquery, libraries, plugins)
- Work on Javascript Exercise (Part 2)
Friday
- Work day
- Work on exercises & Screensaver
- Finish Screensaver project
- Finish rough sketches for Final project
Monday
- 3rd reading response
- Screensaver project
- Screensaver project presentations
- Work day
Tuesday
- Individual Meetings
- Work day
Wednesday
- Individual Meetings
- Work day
Thursday
- Domain Name exercise
- Individual Meetings
- Work day
Friday
~ No Class ~
Monday
- Individual Meetings
- Work Day
Tuesday
- Individual Meetings
- Work Day
Wednesday
- Presentations of Final projects
- Make sure all projects, exercises, reading responses are live and posted to your class site by Monday 7/13