Coursera Fundamentals of Web Development

This course will cover the creation of Web pages and sites using HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, and graphical applications as well as the client and server architecture of the Internet and related web technologies. The creation and deployment of modern, standards-compliant web pages are addressed. Students create and deploy a Web site with multiple pages and cross-linked structures.

Students completing this course will learn to:

• Recognize HTML, CSS, and JavaScript markup and code.
• Select the proper mark-up tags or code to achieve a particular result.
• Identify improperly used markup and code.
• Produce modern standards compliant web pages.
• Deploy web pages to a GitHub server.
• Write valid, well-formed semantic HTML; error-free, backward- and forward-compatible CSS; and error-free, progressively enhanced JavaScript over HTML pages that continue to function in the absence of JavaScript.
• Effectively comment on and format source code for maximum readability.
• Track the development of a project over time and collaborate with others using version control.

Course Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, successful students will be able to:

• Explain the client and server architecture of both the internet and related web technologies.
• Use a basic text editor and other software tools to create web pages written in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery.
• Deploy web pages to a Gethub using version control and Github Desktop.
• Understand the history and track the ongoing development of web standard specifications from the W3C, ISO, IETF, and other specifications-issuing groups.
• Research and argue for particular methods of web development that keep structure in HTML, design entirely in CSS, and progressively enhanced behavior in JavaScript.
• Engage in agile, iterative web development, supported by version control.
• Write useful, descriptive messages attached to granular commits in a version control.

Tuesdays 6:25pm to 9:05pm

Herman Hall Mezzanine (Upstairs)

Or online via Blackboard's Collaborate Ultra

The course emphasizes standards and research. You will learn to make websites that last and are accessible to everyone. The course avoids quick-fix shortcuts that too often plague web development practice and online instruction. Student work is organized around several major projects. All projects emphasize the course’s hands-on, theory-grounded approach to web development.

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• An email account.
• A Coursea account.
• A GitHub account.
• A personal computer with the following software installed:
  • A plain-text editor capable of syntax highlighting. Recommended: Notepad++ (Windows), TextWrangler (mac), or Sublime Text (multi-platform).
  • GitHub Desktop (or Git if you are already proficient)
  • Image-editing software (such as the free and open-source GIMP)
  • At least three different browsers (e.g., Chrome, Opera, Firefox, and/or Edge)

Supplemental readings are linked with Lessons.

PDF copies of the course lectures are provided within course Lessons. You should be aware that note taking is encouraged and will help your understanding of the material.

https://dkriegls.github.io/coursera/

There will not be any guest lectures in this class

Attendance to live lectures is not required in this class. Students are responsible for watching class videos in a timely manner before assignments are due.

All major projects for this course will be submitted via Coursera. Submissions should not include code attachments, but rather URLs pointing to your project’s GitHub repository and live link. Examples will be demonstrated in class.

All work submissions must pass HTML and CSS validation with the W3C HTML validator and W3c CSS validator. Any work whose HTML does not validate will receive a 50%-point reduction, failing grade. Get in the habit early of validating each time before you commit your work to GitHub.

I do not accept late work. All work must be submitted before the date and time specified in each project description.

I will check to see that you are adding proper summaries to your GitHub commits. You are also expected to help other students on Basecamp. This means polite give-and-take discussions of code. Do not discuss anything else on basecamp. Practice professional and supportive critiquing.

There will not be any quizzes in this class

There will not be any examinations in this class

There will not be any extra credit in this class

As with any course at IIT, you are expected to uphold the Code of Academic Honesty as described in the IIT Student Handbook). All work for this course must be your own original effort, including print and digital page design and computer code. Summarizations and quotations of text, as well as any use of open-source code libraries and images not of your own making, should be clearly cited as legally and ethically warranted and rhetorically appropriate. Access, storage, dissemination, and other use of data from third-party sources must conform to the source’s terms of service, licensing, and other relevant legal and ethical restrictions.

If you are at all uncertain as to whether you are submitting work that in whole or in part may violate the Code of Academic Honesty, please contact me immediately and before the work is due. The consequences of academic dishonesty are severe. Any student who violates the Code of Academic Honesty will be subject to expulsion from this course with a failing grade, and I will report the student to the Dean of the School of Applied Technology, who may take additional disciplinary action, including reporting violations to the relevant offices of Undergraduate or Graduate Academic Affairs.

A = 90+

B = 80-89

C = 70-79

D = 60-69

E =<60 points

All course work can be found through the class website

This syllabus is my contract with you as to what I will deliver and what I expect from you. If I change the syllabus, I will issue a revised version of the syllabus; the latest version will always be available on Basecamp. Revisions to readings and assignments will be communicated via Basecamp.

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