CS 318: Lab 3 – More Core
Dear students, Let’s start with a quick informal reading quiz: Question 1 What’s a phrase element? Question 2 What happens to whitespace in our HTML files? Question 3 What kind of list elements are available? When I think about my favorite and most memorable learning experiences, my high school Spanish classes immediately come to mind. […]
CS 318: Project Proposal – due on February 14
In this class, you are asked to apply what you’re learning by building a website for a client. The project is broken down into a series of milestones. The first milestone is to find a client and formally propose your project. Complete the following tasks to achieve this milestone. Task 1: Choose a Client Find […]
CS 330: Lecture 3 – State Machines and More Regex
Dear students, Before diving into code, let’s be computer scientists for a minute. We’re going to consider a model of computation called a deterministic finite automaton (DFA). A DFA is a special case of a state machine. Here’s a state machine used to model an avatar’s state in a game: Thanks, Bob Nystrom. And one […]
CS 330: Lecture 2 – Regex Capturing and Find-All
Dear students, Last time we started looking a regular expressions. There’s something I didn’t share because I was afraid your minds would explode. It’s this: Regex is a language for recognizing a language. We use regex to create little recognition machines. We feed a string into such a machine, and it either belches approvingly or […]
CS 491: Workday 1
Dear students: Today is our first workday. You and your team will spend the time hashing out ideas, discussing one anothers’ strengths and interests, and coming up with a plan. In particular, these are some things to do during class today: Inform your instructor of your studio’s name and employees. He will make a private […]
CS 318: Lab 2 – Core Elements, Relationships, and Validation
Dear students, Today we meet the core elements of an HTML document. First, a little review of your reading: Question #1 Provide an example of a TLD. Question #2 What is the subdomain of the URL https://to.madeup.xyz? Question #3 What is the protocol of the URL https://to.madeup.xyz? Question #4 If computers on the internet are […]
CS 491: Project Milestones
This semester you and your team will be dropped into a box. Calories will be dropped in one side of the box, and a game will pop out the other. To help structure your progress, your box is actually expected to pop out four versions of your game in various stages of completion. These milestones […]
CS 491: Lecture 1 – Push Button
Welcome to CS 491! The Registrar doesn’t really give this elective class a name, but between you and me, I’m calling it Game Development and Physical Computing. The Game Development part means we’re going to be making games. The Physical Computing part means we’re going to be assembling hardware. That hardware will sense the world […]
CS 330: Lecture 1 – Asserting Patterns with Regex
Dear students, Welcome to CS 330: Programming Languages! What’s this class about? Well, imagine you are a biology student taking a class on mammals and every lecture, lab, and homework is on cows. You wouldn’t really be a biologist at the end of this class. You’d be a cowist. A cow gives you one picture […]
CS 330: Homework Wasd – due before May 14
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