FIT3084 : Multimedia Programming and the WWW

Provisional Schedule

Semester 1, Clayton Campus, 2010

Dates on which lectures are covered may vary depending on speed of progress through the material.

Important Dates

Lecture Material

Peer assessment tasks
& Site of the Week*

Tutorial discussion & excercises
1.

Introduction to Multimedia

Behind the (World Wide) Web

Bureau of Meteorology Site review
2.

Basic XHTML


Human-Object Interaction

Gap Minder

 
3.

Human-Computer Interaction

Information Design

DATAISNATURE Information design
5pm Thursday
1 April
Remember to complete your online selection of project groups    
4.

JavaScript I

JavaScript II

Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design Javascript programming
5.

Dynamic-XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets, Document Object Model

Site Design

 

 
6.

Navigation

Textual / Iconic Labelling & Writing for the Web

  Site navigation
5pm Friday 16 April Assignment, part 1 (Design Document) due    
7.

Page Design

Typography

* Peer-assessment week Typography
8.

Forms & CGI Programming

Perl CGI Scripts, (See also: Cookies)

* Peer-assessment retrieval

* Peer-assessment mark retrieval

CGI programming
(including tips to get CGI working)
9.

Colour

Imagery

HTML Colour Codes exhibition

Constructing images
10.

PHP, (See also: Cookies)

Cookies

Ikea typography discussion

PHP Script with Cookies
11.

Ajax

(mySQL) Database access via the WWW

What's wrong with "user-centered" design?

For interest's sake (not examinable):
Easy, interactive, online Ruby tutorial.
Pages on Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
12.

Sound

Animation

The evolution of the mammalian middle ear.

For consideration:
The Elements of User Experience

5pm Friday
28 May
Assignment, part 2 (Implementation) due    
13.

Revision - for those who have tried the practice exam

Revision - for those who have tried the practice exam

* Peer-assessment week
 
   

* Peer-assessment retrieval

* Peer-assessment mark retrieval

 

* Site-of-the-Week is proudly brought to you by the lecturer and students of FIT3084. Have a look at the sites listed. What are their strengths and weaknesses? Why? Please suggest new sites for future episodes of Site-of-the-Week.


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