This class is scheduled over a 16 week period as listed on our Site Index WebPage. The entire course is conducted on-line using Canvas and Tulane eMail. There are NO in classroom, face-to-face, meetings.
Participation in Canvas Discussions ever week is part of each Grading Rubric. These are the easiest points to earn in our class. You earn points for participating. This represents about 15% of your final grade in our class. That is the difference between an "A" and "B", or "A" and "C", or "C" and "F". There are new Discussion Forums available at the beginning of every week of class. New forums are available at 12:01 AM every Monday. Post new threads to Canvas Discussions early each week. Visit Canvas Discussions again later in the week. You will be surprised how helpful this can be. Remember, this is 15% of your final grade. Plan. Plan your participation for beginning of each week. Participate early, earn all of that 15%.
We have an excellent TextBook. There are 10 Tutorial included in our text. Tutorials are equal to the chapters of most books. We will cover Tutorials 1 thought 9. There are 4 Case Problems at the end of each Tutorial, one of which will be chosen as your WebSite Assignment. For your own learning, I strongly suggest that you plan on completing all Case Problems.
There will be no substitute for reading the Tutorials. While you read each Tutorial, you will be presented with example HTML/CSS that will be critical to completing the Case Problems. If, while you are reading, you write the example HTML/CSS, you will have practiced everything needed to complete the Case Problem WebSites. The importance of this to your success in our class cannot be over emphasized. In our text, page 12 of Tutorial 1 begins the first example WebSite, "the J-Prop Shop". Make certain you are committed ... to writing HTML/CSS while you are reading Tutorials. Completing the 9 example WebSites, one for each of the 9 Tutorials we will cover, is a graded exercise -- an item in the Grading Rubric of your Assignments.
Tutorials are progressive. To complete case problem WebSites from Tutorial 2 will require everything you learned in Tutorials 1 and 2. To complete case problem WebSites from Tutorial 3 will require everything you learned in Tutorials 1, 2 and 3. Etc. Etc. Etc. There are no shortcuts.
I like the videos linked below as an introduction to HTML, especially if you have no HTML experiences. In our class, we will be using HTML5. These videos are specific to HTML 4 and XHTML. Videos 1 and 2 apply in to both HTML4 and HTML5. Videos 3 and 4 have minor differences that you will notice when you start writing HTML yourself. But most all concepts presented in these 4 videos will apply to our work.
see also HouseKeeping for Week 0
see also Weekly Assignments