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Week 1
(Introductions + HTML)
6/14 — 6/18
Monday
- Introductions
- Syllabus
- Class Website
- Software and materials
- Overview of terms and technologies
- Website examples + my work
- More websites!
- Discord, Github, Are.na
- Make sure you’ve joined the class Discord
- 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 Introduction project
- Work on Introduction project (part 1)
Wednesday
- CSS Basics Slideshow
- Look through w3schools CSS properties
- CSS basics walkthrough
- Work on Introduction project (part 2)
Thursday
- Make GitHub account
- Set up Class Site
- Send me the url to your class site (email or discord)
- Keep working on the Introduction project and your Class Site
- Add the introduction project to your class site
- Choose 1 reading to respond to
Friday
No Class Friday!
Monday
- Introduction project
- 1st reading response
- Introduction project presentations
- Go through the Favicon tutorial and add a favicon to Class Site
- Work on class site
Tuesday
- Brief discussion of readings
- Introduce Screensaver project (due 6/28)
- Animation exercise
Wednesday
- Box Model & box-sizing exercise
- Positioning 1 (basics) exercise
- Look through w3schools positioning tutorial
Thursday
- Recap basic positioning
- Positioning 2 (flexbox) exercise
- Work on Flexbox exercise
Friday
- Go over handy Atom plugins
- Recap flexbox (if needed)
- Typography
- Interaction
- Finish flexbox exercise and post to your site
- Finish Screensaver project
- Choose 1 reading to respond to
Monday
- 2nd reading response
- Screensaver project
- Brief discussion of reading
- Screensaver project presentations
- Introduce Aura project (due 7/5)
- Introduce Final project (due 7/14)
Tuesday
- Responsiveness (media queries & relative units)
- Review responsiveness notes
Wednesday
- Javascript 1 (basics)
- Go through Javascript exercise (part 1)
Thursday
- Javascript 2 (jquery, libraries, plugins)
- Go through Javascript exercise (part 2)
Friday
- Work day
- Work on Aura project
- Finish Aura project
- Finish rough sketches for Final project
Monday
No Class Monday!
Tuesday
- 3rd reading response
- Aura project
- Aura project presentations
- Work day
Wednesday
- Individual Meetings
- Work day
Thursday
- Individual Meetings
- Work day
Friday
- Domain Name exercise
- Individual Meetings
- Work day
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 Wednesday 7/21