Course Syllabus

Time & Location:MWF, 1100 - 1150, TH 215 (lab) and 216
Instructor: George Rudolph
Office Hours: TBD, or by appointment
Office Location: TH 225
Phone: 953-5032 (O)     Email: george.rudolph@citadel.edu

Assignments

Consult the Class Schedule for a list of daily topics and Homework & Projects for a description of the work to be submitted.

Objectives

This course provides an introduction to issues involved in the design of web pages and web sites. Topics include: search engines, evaluation criteria, legal issues such as copyright, design issues, the basics of HTML and CSS, and a brief introduction to Java applets, Javascript and database front ends. Each student will build a personal collection of web pages.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, a student will be able to

  • Evaluate the design and content of an existing website using established criteria.
  • Design and code a website using established standards for good design and modern content.
  • Search the news and discuss web-related issues of current interest, with emphasis on copyrights and ethics.

Textbook

Wendy Willard, HTML: A Beginner's Guide, 3rd Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2007
Patrick Lynch & Sarah Horton, Web Style Guide (website), Yale Univ. Press, 2002

Software

See software resources

Attendance

According to College policy a cadet who misses more than 15 minutes of class will be marked absent.

Grading

The course grade will be based on 2 exams, homework, web site, and a final exam. Each in-class exam counts 10%, the homework 15%, the web site will count 40%, and the final exam 25%.

Homework/Projects

Approximately 11 homework projects ranging in value from 10-25 points each will be assigned. These will allow you to demonstrate ideas and issues discussed in class. The homework must be completed in a timely fashion. Homework more than a week late will not be counted. Each student must construct his/her own web site. This requires three stages, the first of which will be to do a basic set of pages. In stages 2 and 3 you will add features discussed in the course. More detail is given in the Homework & Projects section of the course web site. The homework and web pages submitted must be your own work, not (slightly altered) copies of another person's files. Submitting pages/content copied from elsewhere may result in an 'F' in the course.

Exams

There will be two in-class examinations. No make-up exams are given. See the schedule.

Final Examination

The exam will be cumulative and count 25% of the course grade. It is scheduled for:

8 AM, Saturday, April 26, TH 215