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 268: Lecture 2 – HTML
Dear students: Last time we introduced the web as an effort to exchange structured information between computers. Today we look more closely at the language we use to give structure to our information: HTML. Questions Let’s start by reflecting on the reading with a few questions. What can you tell me about whitespace? What appears […]
CS 491: Meeting 1 – Push Button
Dear students: 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 […]
CS 268: Lecture 1 – Web History
Welcome to CS 268: Web Systems! In this class, we will investigate how to make software that runs in a web browser. It’s quite likely that web development is going to be one of the most important skills you can have in this stage of the technological era. Standalone desktop apps will never go away […]
CS 268: Homework 0 – Blog Server
In this first ungraded homework, you will set up a web server that really lives on the web. You will begin serving out a directory for a blog that you will populate throughout the semester, documenting your foray into the world of web development. Digital Ocean You will set up your server with Digital Ocean, […]