CS 330: Lecture 23 – Haskell
Dear students, This class has hit upon two overall themes so far this semester. The first theme was the recognition and interpretation of a programming language. The second theme was types, which brought with it ideas about object orientation and static vs. dynamic decision-making. The third theme of the semester is functional programming, which has […]
CS 318: Lab 16 – Tables
Dear students, Today we explore the HTML table element. At its core, a table is just a grid of rows and columns. It supports headers, borders, and cells that extend across multiple columns and multiple rows. Before div and CSS positioning came along, tables were the primary vehicle for structuring a page. It was awful. […]
CS 318: WordPress for the Rest of Semester
Your task for April and May is to extend the style of your blog with some CSS and write six posts about topics of your choosing. By the end of the semester you should have a total of 15 posts. The posts don’t need to be long. Feel free to share poetry, a photo diary, […]
CS 318: Project Prototype – due April 23
Your next milestone in the project is to create a digital prototype for your site. You will present this prototype to randomly assigned classmates for an initial evaluation. Task 1: Create a Prototype Create a first draft of your site in a folder named prototype1 in your GitHub project. Name this directory exactly; no spaces, […]
CS 330: Lecture 22 – Templates
Dear students, The most common application of templates is to create reusable collections. But in C++ we can also pass the compiler a value to help it specialize the templated pattern. For example, suppose we want lightning fast multiplication. Let’s take a first stab, which is anything but lightning fast: int multiply(int a, int n) […]
CS 330: Lecture 21 – Parametric Polymorphism
Dear students, Don’t get me started on arrays in C. What sort of world is this where an array is fixed in size, but yet it doesn’t know what that size is? We must fix this. Let’s create a growable array: class Flexray { public: Flexray() : capacity(10), nitems(0), elements(new int[capacity]) { } ~Flexray() { […]
CS 318: Lab 15 – Midterm
Dear students, Today we have a midterm. I’m cheering for you. Here’s your TODO list for next time: Complete CSS Diner, a game for learning a whole new set of CSS selectors that we will use throughout the second half of the semester. Read chapter 9 in your book. On a quarter sheet, share 2-3 […]
CS 330: Lecture 20 – Midterm Review
Dear students, Today we’ll go over the midterm together. It’s too good an opportunity to pass up. A bunch of problems that you’ve all looked at before class. Sincerely,
CS 318: Lab 14 – Viewport Parallax
Dear students, Let’s shake things up a bit today. When game developers get together to build a game in a very short amount of time, they call that a game jam. We will have a web jam. I want to devote all of today’s lab time to that, so I won’t be doing any talking. […]
CS 330: Midterm
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