schedule.md

This is not a living document - the course wiki is the best place for up-to-date schedule info. last updated: January 23, 2023

⌖ Part 1 - Introduction to Web Dev ⌖

Week 1 - Introductions

• Intro to Course + participants
• Review and research syllabus
• What is the web?
• Intro to Unix
  • Reading - Aureia Harvey + the Future of Digital Sculpture - 2021.

Week 2 - As We May Think + Intro to HTML

• Intro to HTML
• Git and Git Pages
• Designing with a limited tool kit
  • Reading - As We May Think - Vannevar Bush, 1945

Week 3 - Ways of Seeing + HyperText

• local vs. remote: file paths
• HyperText Narratives + Web 1.0
• < a href=“http://www.google.com" > Hyperlinking w/ HTML < /a >
• Intro to CSS styling
  • Reading - John Berger

⌖ Part 2 - Interaction Design for the Web w/ CSS ⌖

Week 4 - on Photography + Pixel Matters

• CSS Styling
• HTML Box Model
  • Reading: Solmaz Sharif

Week 5 - pair programming project + the Box Model

• CSS Positioning

Week 6 - responsive web

• Responsive Web - CSS3
  • CSS Flexbox
  • CSS Grids
• Intro to net.art
  • Reading - Rhizome net art anthology

Week 7 - net.art pair programming projects

• CSS Animations

⌖ Part 3 - Programming in the Browser ⌖

Week 8 - intro to the DOM

• Intro to JavaScript and the DOM
  • Readings:
  1. What is the DOM
  2. How to apply css styles to page elements

Week 9 - the Medium is the Message + the style object

• Native JavaScript
  • The Medium is the Massage.

Week 10 - JS libraries

Week 11 - working with user data

Week 12 - tbd

Week 13 - Week 15 - Final Projects

• Final Project Proposal Presentations
• Final Project User testing
• Final Project Crit