| Description |
CAMPUS Due Date |
ONLINE Due Date |
| Week 1 - January 19: Writing Your First Scripts | ||
| Exercise: FERPA | 1/26 |
1/26 |
| Be sure to fill out the Student Profile. This gives your instructor contact information, and tells the webmaster to set up your webspace. You need to fill this out once each semester, even if you're taking multiple NLC web design classes. If you have completed it unsuccessfully one time, complete it again as a returning student. | 1/26 |
1/26 |
| Reading: Syllabus, Lab Policies, Open Lab Information | 1/26 |
1/26 |
| Exercise: (Required): Scavenger Hunt | 1/26 |
1/26 |
| Textbook Page - errata, downloads, etc. | 1/26 |
1/26 |
| NOTE: You are all advanced students -- I expect to go out to your website and EASILY find your assignments. I will grade every Thursday afternoon. If I can't find your assignments you will not recieve credit. | --- |
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| Bookwork: TFTS Ch. 1 -- Upload completed electricBill3.swf | 1/26 |
1/26 |
| Project 1: Guess the Number | 1/26 eoc |
1/26 |
| Week 2 - January 23 - 30: Using Event Handlers | ||
| Bookwork: TFTS Ch. 2 -- Upload completed CarParts2.swf and Listners2.swf | 2/2 |
1/30 |
| Class time for Guess the Number (if needed, my fingers are crossed) | --- |
n/a |
| Project: Space Invaders (pt. 1 only) | 2/2 |
1/30 |
| Week 3 - Jan. 31 - Feb. 6: Understanding Target Paths | ||
| Bookwork: TFTS Ch. 3 -- Upload backgroundControl3 and levelTarget | 2/9 |
2/6 |
| Project: Space Invaders (pt. 2 only) | 2/9 |
2/6 |
| Week 4 - Feb. 7 - 13: Object Classes | ||
| CAMPUS STUDENTS click for your new calendar | 2/14 |
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| Bookwork: TFTS Ch. 4 | 2/14 |
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| Project 4: Object Classes | 2/14 |
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| Week 5- Feb. 14-20: Functions, Creating and Manipulating Data | ||
| catch-up week | --- |
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| Week 6- Feb. 21-27: Custom Classes | ||
| Bookwork: TFTS Ch. 5 & 6 | 2/28 |
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| Week 7- Feb. 28 - March 6: Conditional Logic | ||
| Bookwork: TFTS Ch. 7 | 2/9 |
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| Project: Custom Classes | 2/9 |
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| Week 8- March 9: Loops, Scripting UI Components | ||
| Bookwork: TFTS Ch. 8 | ||
| SPRING BREAK March 16 -- Your instructor is not required to answer email or telephone on official school holidays. | ||
| Week 9- March 23: Getting Data In and Out of Flash | ||
| Bookwork: TFTS Ch. 9 & 10 | ||
| Week 10- March 30: Using XML with Flash | ||
| Bookwork: TFTS Ch. 11 | ||
| Week 11 - April 6: Validating Data | ||
| Bookwork: TFTS Ch. 12 | ||
| Week 12 - April 13: Working with Text | ||
| Bookwork: TFTS Ch. 13 | ||
| Week 13 - April 20: Dynamically Controlling Movie Clips | ||
| Bookwork: TFTS Ch. 14 | ||
| Bookwork: TFTS Ch. 15 | ||
| Week 14 - April 27: Time- and Frame-based Dynamism | ||
| Bookwork: TFTS Ch. 16 | ||
| Week 15 - May 4 : Scripting for Sound | ||
| Bookwork: TFTS Ch. 17 | ||
| Week 16 - May 11: Loading External Assets | ||
| Bookwork: TFTS Ch. 18 | ||
- Bookwork = Chapters in text. You should work through each chapter, performing all exercises. Bookwork chapters are required assignments (graded and checked off as completed) and are to be uploaded to the NL server.
- Readings = Articles for reading--not graded.
- Topics = Short graded papers or projects. These assignments may be uploaded to the NL server or sent to your instructor as attachments to e-mail messages. These assignments are graded.
- Quizzes = One online multiple-choice quiz over the copyright guidelines. This quiz will be scored automatically and the score sent to your instructor. Six other short answer quizzes over the text chapters are to be completed in MS Word and submitted as attachments to e-mail messages. All quizzes are graded based on a 100 point system.
- Exercises = Ungraded assignments that expand on material in the textbook. Some are required and some are optional. See calendar for required or optional.
- Projects = Graded assignments. Projects take from the equivalent of two class sessions to an entire semester. Uploaded to the NL server. A project evaluation form is used. See calendar for the form.
- References = Documents provided for additional information. You will never be tested on a reference document. If you're falling behind, the reference documents should be ignored.
- Admin = Administrative items needed to make the class run more smoothly.
- Notes = Tips on how to handle particular assignments.
= Content posted after we've covered associated material
in class.
= Gallery of web sites serving as examples of techniques or
concepts discussed in class
= Viewlet (short movie) demonstrating a software technique. Hover over
the icon to see the show's title. Please remember that a Viewlet's content
does not reflect all the material in a chapter.
= Link to a website used in lecture. Hover over the icon to see the site's
name or URL.
= Supplemental reading