Tentative Schedule

Tutorials At A Glance

Labs At A Glance

May 25th 2005: Tutorial

• introduction, computing environment, overview of material
• notes

June 01st 2005: Lab

• exercises

June 08th 2005: Tutorial

• notes
• accompanying examples:
  • simplest document as html
  • simplest document as txt
  • simplest document as html but without tags
  • use of header
  • various paragraphing techniques
  • various styles (revised header tags)
  • using lists
  • standard table set-up
• more examples:
  • pre
  • spacing and spacing (these look the same, you have to see the html code)
  • tables

June 15th 2005: Lab

• exercises
• try out the converter

June 22nd 2005: Tutorial

• notes
• accompanying examples:
  • inserting images
  • basic links

June 29th 2005: Lab

• exercises

July 06th 2005: Tutorial

• notes
• accompanying examples:
  • radio buttons
  • text field

July 12th 2005: Lab

• exercises
• please note that the next two labs build on this one, so make sure you understand what this one is about!

July 20th 2005: Tutorial

• processing a small questionnaire (code)
  click on the questionnaire, complete it, and find out what your extraversion index is
• two key files
  • just a plain form (code)
  • "stubs" to fill in
• step-by-step programming
  1. put in a new validation function (code)
  2. verify user id (code)
  3. verify all questions have been answered (code)
  4. go calculate extraversion value (code)
  5. add up all "forward" items (code)
  6. convert a string to a number (code)
  7. add up all "reverse" items (code)
  8. reverse a value (code)
  9. average over all 8 questions (code)
• additional function to send the form (optional, if have time)
  1. create a mailIt function (code)
  2. concat the form data (code)
  3. append a URI (code)
  4. pass everything to mail program (code)
• processing a full questionnaire
  click on the questionnaire, complete it, and find out your index for extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness

July 27th 2005 and August 03rd 2005: Lab

• exercises

• solution part 1: site, code
• solution part 2: site, code (checkSyntax is rewritten as "checkDateSyntax" checkSemantics is rewritten as "checkRealDate")

August 10th 2005: Tutorial

• notes