Jan. 18

Group SXSW Project Discussion
Web Development Presentation

Learning to Make the Internets - A Journalist's Guide - Andy Boyle

HTML5 basics
CSS3 basics
These will be demos of future features.

Using Wordpress and Working with a Self-Hosted Installation

Wordpress Tips

Wordpress CSS Guides
WordPress.com Custom CSS Page
WordPress FAQ Custom CSS
Wordpress.com vs. Wordpress.org
Wordpress Widget Guide

You will receive information about upgrading your account. Do this as soon as possible.

Jan. 25
Cindy

Wordpress - complete work on upgraded Wordpress installation.

Notes

Template

Improved logo

5 pages

links to past projects with clear descriptions

Resume

Widgets (plugins), identify some.

Upgraded Wordpress personal site due

Feb. 1

Drupal

Feb. 8

Drupal

Understanding the VIDI modules

Feb. 15

Javascript and JQuery

Javascript/JQuery Handout

Using JQuery to Make a Photo Slideshow

Example (click to open, right click to save file index.html)

Needs:
css folder (create css folder and right click to download global.css in css folder)
js folder (create js folder and right click to download slides.min.jquery.js in js folder)
img folder (create img folder and right click todownload all files each to img folder)

JQuery Slideshow Exercise

Feb. 22

Working with data - sqlite manager

sqlite manager handout

Data at Texas State - finding sources of demographic information about the university

Sqlite exercise

Feb. 29

Google Fusion Tables

Fusion Tables Handout

Also, ManyEyes and other Timetric, Tableau Public, Simile Widgets, Daytum

Google Visualizations

• Google Visualizations Handout - use the Google Visualizations API to add cool, interactie charts to your Web site.

Google Fusion Table exercise

Google Visualization Exercise

March 7

No class - see you at SXSW!

But read and review the following:

Read the following articles from Online Journalism Review:

http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/070523ruel/ - About Online Infographics http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/060605niles/ - Interview with Adrian Holovaty

Read: "Renegades at the New York Times" NY Magazine, Jan. 11, 2009

Animated Infographics

• NY Times Interactive Wealth Calculator
• NY Times VA Tech Shooting
• NY Times Rent vs. Buy
• NY Times Election 2008
• NY Times Tracking Flight 1549
• NY Times Michael Jackson's Billboard Rankings
• NY Times Inaugural Words
• NY Times Best Places
• MSNBC Bridge Tracker
• Las Vegas Sun - Prescription Narcotics Consumption
• Hudson Valley Public Salary Database

Resources:

Tufte - The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Spring Break/SXSW Project

March 21

SXSW Wrap Up

Web Scraping and Extracting

Web Scraping Handout

Web scraping exercise

March 28

Forms and Templates

• Forms and Form Processing
• Dreamweaver Templates

Form Exercise

April 4

PHP/MySQL

PHP Handout
• What is PHP?; easy PHP scripting - Hello World (file: helloworld.php)
• Using Server-side includes vs. iFrames (files: footertest.php, stuff.inc)
• Writing to a database (files: discuss1.php - form, d1.php - form processor, d1-reader.php - reader)

• PHP.net
• W3 Schools PHP Tutorial
• Lynda.com PHP Essentials Tutorial - Several of the modules are free to view as a preview.
• MySQL.com
• MySQL install documentation

PHP Exercise

April 11

Web Frameworks

• Ruby on Rails Handout
• RubyOnRails.org
• Ruby On Rails install info
• Hivelogic install instructions
• Agile Web Development with Rails, 3rd Edition
• Rails Forum

• Django site
• Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
• Rails vs. Django - funny
• Rails vs. Django: A Developer's Comparison
• Rails vs. Django: A Beginner's Point of View
• CakePHP vs Django vs Rails vs Who Cares - Make a Decision

April 18

Web Frameworks, continued

Rails Exercise

April 25

Mobile Development

Final Project Contributions Due