CS 347: Lab 2 – HTML
Dear students: Welcome to lab. Now’s your chance to apply the ideas you read about. Find a partner and complete as many of the tasks below as you can. At the end of our time together, paste your HTML files into Crowdsource in order to receive credit. (There’s only one text box. Just paste them […]
CS 347: Webdev Blog
This semester you will document your learning of web development in a blog that you serve out via the Apache web server. Each week you will seek out articles or videos on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or other web development topics and then write a short response to these materials. Use external source materials, not just […]
CS 240: Lecture 3 – Measuring Algorithms
Dear students: We talked last week about the arsenal of tools we computer scientists have at our disposal and how each tool has its strengths and weaknesses. To be able to choose which tool to use, we need a way of judging them. Here are a few possible ways we might measure algorithms: Correctness. A […]
CS 240: Lecture 2 – Generics Lab
Dear students: Today we will devote our entire time together to a lab on generic programming in Java. Find the lab on the schedule on the main Canvas page. Follow these guidelines: You may work with one other person. If there’s an odd number of people, one group of three is permitted. Complete the lab […]
CS 347: Lab 1 – Critique
Welcome to CS 347: Web Development. This is a course in which we write software that runs in a web browser. Software that runs in a browser is easy to share with others, is easy to update, and is written using modern languages and development tools. I’m Chris, and I’m happy to be teaching a […]
CS 347: Digital Ocean Setup
Your projects and blog will be hosted on a web server that really lives on the web. You will set up your server with Digital Ocean, a company that hosts virtual machines—which they call droplets. Normally, droplets cost money. Thanks to the GitHub Student Developer Pack, you can get a $100 credit for Digital Ocean. […]
CS 347 – Web Development
Course Information Syllabus Enrollment: 30 Labs Projects
CS 240: Lecture 1 – Introduction
Welcome to CS 240: Algorithms and Data Structures. I’m Chris, and I’ve never felt less prepared for a semester than I do right now. Part of it’s because the summer was busy. I put on a few summer camps. Part of it’s because I’m still new to JMU. This is my second year here, and […]
CS 240 – Algorithms and Data Structures
Course Information Syllabus Enrollment: ~50 Lecture Notes
CS 430: Lecture 11 – History
Dear students, We’ve spent the semester lifting up the hood on programming languages to see their technical details. Today we do something different: we look at the languages through a more historical lens. Mechanical Computers The earliest computers used machinery like gears and springs to perform mathematical calculations. The most famous of these was the […]