Introduction to Programming

Fall 2014

Documents

• Syllabus and Schedule - Revised October 12, 2014
• Course Policies
• Academic Honesty
• Department of Computing Technology Goals
• Academic Calendar

Books

• Eloquent JavaScript second edition - Free!
• Code Complete by Steve McConnell - Read this!
• Beautiful Code by Andy Oram & Greg Wilson
• Coders at Work by Peter Seibel

Git and GitHub

• A Gentle Introduction to Git and GitHub
• Try Github - a tutorial

Projects

• Project 1 - Your First Web Page
• Project 2 - Game v0.2
• Project 3 - Game v0.4
• Project 4 - Game v0.6
• Project 5 - Game v0.8
• Final Project - Game v1.0

Examples

• Class and Lab Code
• September 4, 2014 class - a beginning web page
• September 8, 2014 class - button clicks and comments
• September 11, 2014 class - memory and variable assignment / sequence
• September 15, 2014 class - variable assignment and reassignment / sequence
• September 17, 2014 lab - the if-else construct for alternation
• September 18, 2014 class - nested if-else constructs / reading and writing DOM elements
• September 22, 2014 class - functions, scope, and parameters (Oh my!)
• September 24, 2014 lab - == vs. === / HAL the goofy AI
• October 6, 2014 class - game example with Switch/Case
• October 8, 2014 lab - scope testing and parameter-passing
• October 9, 2014 class - game example with smaller and more modular functions
• October 27, 2014 class HTML and JavaScript - external JavaScript and loops both FOR and WHILE
• October 29, 2014 lab - annoying the player with FOR and WHILE loops
• October 30, 2014 class - our first class/prototype and instances/objects
• November 3, 2014 class - class/prototype for numbers of various bases and a few instances/objects
• November 5, 2014 lab - the magic square
• November 6, 2014 class - Shapes, Rectangles, Circles, and Squares (oh my!)
• November 13, 2014 class - Arrays and strings
• November 17, 2014 class - Storing shape objects in an array
• December 1, 2014 class - navigation with a matrix
• Final Project Hall of Fame
• Cube v1.0 (2012)
• Other
• All Your Base by Paul Liabach
• Practice fixing invalid markup
• Modifying the DOM
• Spaceship prototype
• Fibonacci: Iterative and Recursive

Resources

• HTML
• Introduction to HTML
• Some Cool HTML 5 Features
• W3C HTML Validator
• Mozilla Canvas Tutorial
• HTML5 Web Storage Specification
• Dive into HTML5 Local Storage
• HTML 5 Local Storage Overview
• Introduction to HTML5 Web Storage
• The HTML tags at Stack Overflow
• The HTML5 and Database tags at Stack Overflow
• The HTML tag at Pro Webmasters Stack Exchange
• CSS
• The CSS tag at Stack Overflow
• The CSS tag at Pro Webmasters Stack Exchange
• Advanced CSS
• CSS and Design
• JavaScript
• JavaScript is Good, Actually - Well... modern JavaScript is.
• A Re-introduction to JavaScript
• JavaScript Style Guides
• The jQuery JavaScript Style Guide
• Some JavaScript code conventions - from Doug Crockford
• More JavaScript code conventions - from many people, managed via Git
• JavaScript: The Good Parts - by Doug Crockford
• The JavaScript tag at Stack Overflow
• The JavaScript tag at Pro Webmasters Stack Exchange
• JavaScript Keyboard Events Madness
• Treant.js - a JavaScipt library for tree diagram visualizations
• Write Tetris in JavaScript
• Git
• GitHub Desktop
• A Gentle Introduction to Git and GitHub from Alan
• Git from the Bottom up by John Wiegley
• Git Basics
• Try Github
• GitHub Guides
• Advanced: Git From the Inside Out
• Visualizing Git Concepts
• How to Write a Git Commit Message - pretty good advice
• The Issues Feature on GitHub
• Dangers of GitHub and Amazon
• General

• DOM Enlightenment- Exploring the relationship between JavaScript and the modern HTML DOM
• Visualize Code Execution - in Python
• W3 Schools Tutorials and References
• Web Programming Tutorials
• The Web Developer's Handbook

Articles

• History
• A Brief History of the Internet
• A Brief History of Web Browsers
• Software Development
• Software Development Developments at Microsoft
• Exploding Software Engineering Myths - more from Microsoft Research
• The Open Web Application Security Project
• A lesson in anti-security
• User Interface Advice
• Amazon's Fast Dropdown Menus
• About Technical Debt from CMU SEI
• Writing Interactive Fiction
• Interactive Fiction Wiki
• Author Guide
• Author Guide Supplemental one
• Author Guide Supplemental two
• History of Interactive Fiction
• History of Zork
• A Treasury of Zork Maps
• Play ZORK online
• Play a bunch of Infocom Adventures online
• Adventure Classic Gaming
• Brass Lantern
• GET LAMP
• LAMP Links
• GET LAMP extended interviews
• Other Games
• All About Pac-Man
• Play Pac-Man in your browser - It's written in JavaScript. The source code is on GitHub.

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