CIT 040 / BIS 125 - Fall 2008 - Evergreen Valley College

General Information

3 Units | CR | Prerequisite: CIT010/BIS091

Course Description

This course teaches basic skills in HTML, CGI, JavaScript, and multimedia techniques. These techniques will be used to design, develop, and maintain professional Web sites.

Course Content

• Basic design and layout principles to apply for effective and user friendly Web site production.
• Basic multimedia production techniques such as graphics conversions to GIF, JPEG, and PNG, animation and sound files.
• HTML for creation of Web sites with enhanced text formatting, tables, styles, forms, frames, imagemaps, and background colors and patterns.
• Overview of the CGI process; application of basic CGI scripts and Java applets/JavaScript scripts to enhance forms, on-line registration, on-line ordering and guestbook functions for effective Web site templates.
• Completion of a full professional Web site design incorporating the techniques learned as a final project.

Objectives

• Design and maintain a professional Web site.
• Effectively use basic HTML, CGI, and JavaScript scripts in Web design.
• Incorporate basic multimedia techniques like sound, animation, and image conversion into Web design.
• Utilize the basic design and layout rules and techniques for the Web.

Process

This class consists of lecture and lab. The instructor will be present to assist you during the group discussions and the scheduled lab hours, but you may come any time the labs are open. You may work on assignments in the lab or use your own computers.

Required Text

HTML, XHTML, & CSS, 6th Edition, Elizabeth Castro (Peachpit Press) ISBN 0-321-43084-0

Assignments

You will be assigned exercises ranging from light to moderate complexity. For each assignment, you will upload the solution to a website. Exercises will be graded on correct use of valid XHTML and how well they fulfill the specifications for the assignment.

Exams

You will have one midterm and one final; there may be pop quizzes as well. The comprehensive final will be on the last day of class, 13 December 2008. The final will cover topics that include, but are not limited to: writing fragments of HTML given specifications, describing the output of HTML, and correcting invalid HTML.

Grading

The work on the tests and exercises will be weighted and combined to calculate your final grade as follows:

Weight Exercises: 60% Midterm/Quizzes: 20% Final Exam: 20%

Grading: 90% and above A 80% B 70% C 60% D Less than 60% F

Attendance

You are required to attend classes. If you decide to drop the class, it is your responsibility to do so. Five absences may cause you to be dropped - please notify the instructor if you have any extenuating circumstances. If you know of an absence in advance, please send me an email. The deadline dates for dropping a class with and without a “W” are printed in the EVC Schedule of Classes.

If you are late to a class session, you will miss the material presented before you arrived.

Policies

Exercises are to be submitted prior to the end of the class lab period on the date due. If turned in late, you will receive reduced credit; one letter grade per class session late up to two sessions late. Missed tests or exercises will receive zero credit. The final exam is required. Discussion about assignments is encouraged, but you must each do your own work. Cheating and plagiarism will be met with an F in the course. Plagiarism also includes using web HTML generating software to produce web pages. See the EVC catalog for details on the College Honesty Policy as well as student disciplinary and grievance procedures.

If you receive services from DSP or have a disability for which you need special accommodations, please let me know as soon as possible.

Course Outline

Note: the pace at which we will cover these subjects may deviate from this printed schedule. Your mileage may vary. Use the online notes for your main reference source. The book pages are for extra reading.