I just updated the site to have a @media print{} css block with overrides for all the stuff you don’t want to print out with lecture notes–for those of you who have asked for printable notes.
For those of you who don’t care, nevermind.
I’m still in the process of ripping out everything I don’t like about this theme and porting over my WEB150 site to this site. I may just move to a lighter theme…
Kaaaaaaaaaahhn!
Information for your ITC285 Final Project Presentation has been updated with percentages and some ideas of what you will talk about.
I look forward to seeing what you all have done :)
The servers at Central have been compromised, and we wanted you to get a heads up about handling your files:
Lisa: Please alert your students to back up all files residing on their server space here at the college on an external thumb or flash drive for a few days. We’ve seen some instances of student’s files becoming corrupt and anticipate a roll-back of data possibly prior to last week due to the attack described below.
Harriet: It appears that some “bad guys” are trying what’s called a “denial of service” attack on our SeattleCentral.edu world. This involves their hitting our net a zillion times, and it makes our website very slow.
The attack is on what’s called the “http” protocol, so if you access the college website by going to https://seattlecentral.edu (note the “s” added to http) it should work for you in spite of the problem.
Bill & Sara: Last week a student sent us a copy of some code injected into all of her files on Edison. There may be code injected into our PHP & HTML files, described in the following google doc:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ajmjwkk5jqfx_6dzjcbwdr
It looks like there has been some success removing this injected code, but its labor intensive, and there seems to be possible DB intrusion as well for those on Zephir.
PRELIMINARY ADVICE: Back up important files from Zephir/Edison to a thumb drive. Do not upload these to a different server!
We recommend:
1) Back up important files to a thumb drive or CD, no where else
2) Run a virus scan on the drive (if CD, do this before the burn)
3) Wait to see if your files on zephir/edison are effected by a rollback (reverting to an earlier version of all files)
4) Investigate recovering files from your thumb drive selectively, if they are effected by a rollback
Harriet & Lisa will inform us when things are in the clear, but we want you to be able to save your important files!
I just put up a student portal for WEB120 so everyone can see what everyone else is doing in my class :)
I’m still working on the format for lecture notes, but it’s getting there. Assignments are now on the top of the lecture notes page.
I’ve also added a couple of new CSS resources.
W3Schools has a nice primer tutorial on CSS and a great reference sheet for CSS
I just finished the Week 1 curriculum for WEB 120 (Web Authoring II).
Class starts on Tuesday.
UPDATE: 2009.01.04, 12:21AM
I just realized that one of the books assigned for this class (not by me) is not good. It teaches some very out-of-date markup and should not be purchased by the students of this class.
This book will NOT be used for this class:
Book: HTML, XHTML, and CSS, 6th Edition (Visual Quickstart Guide)
<< DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK
Author: E. Castro
ISBN: 0321430840
If you have already purchased it and for some reason feel like keeping it, note that we are going to cover chapters 1-6 in the first week (but not in so many words and we will be bypassing all of the bad practices). The book does have some valuable and relevant information but it is hiding behind a lot of cruft.
We will only be using the second book marked as ‘required’ for this course (also not chosen by me but looks decent so far):
Book: CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions (2006)
Author: Andy Budd
ISBN: 978-1590596142
I have just completed the MIC 102G: Intro to Programming curriculum.
Rather than use one of the previous instructors set of lecture notes and assignments, I have opted to build my own curriculum. My end goal in this is to give the students a broader understanding of programming and it’s concepts without diving into a specific programming language. Students in this class will be pursuing a wide array of languages, platforms and techniques. Whether it’s Java, C#, PHP, C++, JavaScript, or a path that involves little coding but requires basic understanding, students need to know the differences between these languages and why they may want to learn them.
This course will focus heavily on programming terminology and concepts, common coding practices and programming standards.
Class starts on Tuesday \m/
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