Week 7: Programming Concepts

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The Plan

  • Coding vs. programming
  • Functions/variables/logic
  • How computers “think”, pseudocode grocery shopping
  • Noodling
  • Move that to a program to your files
  • Intro to jQuery

Homework

Todo

Readings

Week 4: OMG clearfix…why…

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The Plan

  • Look at links
  • Assignment 1/general Q&A
  • Mobile First: max-width vs. min-width
  • Code a page together
  • Explain floats, clearfixing, and why to use grids

Homework

To do

  • Mail me a .zip of Assignment 1
  • Get started on [https://prattcodingii.hackpad.com/Coding-II-Assignment-2-Eok4RWf1vZ9](Assignment 2)
  • Figure something out and prepare to present it to the class next week
  • Find a site we can dissect

Readings

Week 2: The Internet and Files and Such

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The Plan

  • Housekeeping – all good with the blog and email list?
  • Show off links
  • How the Internet works
  • Review file paths
  • Create site folders in the command line
  • Review, demos, whatever!

Homework

To-dos

  • Finish Assignment 1
  • Find a link to share next time, per usual
  • Install emmet in Sublime – link to instructions

Readings

Read these in order and come up with some thoughts:

  1. Semantic code: What? Why? How? and Wikipedia Semtantic HTML
  2. Our Pointless Pursuit of Semantic Value – Divya Manian
  3. Pursuing Semantic Value – response to the above, Jeremy Keith

From Class

Week 1: Dive In!

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The Plan

  • Intros
  • Go over the class site and The Plan
  • My spiel about teaching and learning
  • Pair up and work through Assignment 1 (make your own copy of the checklist). Starter files are here.

Homework

Todos

  • Get pretty far into Assignment 1
  • Subscribe to the newsletters and explore links on the Tools page, install required and recommended software (if you want to)
  • Find a link or article to share for next time

Readings

Refreshers (optional)

From Class

Demos

Links