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Fachmodul
Vague, but Exciting: An Introduction to Web Technologies
Instructor: Jason Reizner
Credits: 6 ECTS, 4 SWS
Capacity: max. 15 students
Language: English
Date: Mondays, 13:30 to 16:45

Location: Marienstr. 7b, Room 105

First Meeting: 18 April 2016, 13:30

Description

"Vague, but exciting."

Writing these three words on the cover of Sir Tim Berners-Lee's first draft of "Information Management: A Proposal" in 1989, CERN supervisor Mike Sendell approved work on the research project that became the starting point for what we now know as the World Wide Web. Over the span of 25 years, the web has emerged from its roots as a hypertext experiment to help physicists flexibly mediate large amounts of information, becoming the killer app that brought the Internet into mainstream use and popular consciousness.

Today the web is no longer itself just an application: it is both the fundamental architecture underpinning the largest structured collection of human content ever assembled, as well as the core technology central to the emergence and maturation of mobile and pervasive computing. In this module, participants are offered the opportunity to get acquainted with the technical fundamentals of contemporary web technology, and to develop the requisite skills necessary to creating and working with web content in artistic, professional and research contexts.

Course Topics include:

Internet Architecture
Client-Server Model
OSI Stack Model
HTTP & the Application Layer

HTML: Syntax and Elements
Document Object Model (DOM)
CSS
Aesthetics & Usability
Accessibility

JavaScript
XML/Semantic Web
AJAX

Server Side Scripting (PHP, Perl et al.)
Databases

Admission requirements

This is an introductory course with no technical pre-requisites. Concurrent enrollment in another IFD course offering is strongly encouraged.

Registration procedure

Please send an email with your name, degree program, technical background and a brief motivation for taking this module to: jason.reizner [ät] uni-weimar.de

A valid @uni-weimar.de email address is required for registration (no other mailing addresses will be accepted). Why?

Evaluation

Successful completion of the course is dependent on regular attendance, active participation, completion of weekly assignments and delivery of a relevant semester project. Please refer to the Evaluation Rubric for more details.

Eligible participants

Fachmodul:
MFA Medienkunst/-gestaltung, MFA Media Art and Design, MSc MediaArchitecture

Syllabus

18 April
Introduction
Course Organization
Administrative Housekeeping

Semester Evaluation Rubric


25 April
How does this work?
How did we get here?
A brief history of networked computing
Client/Server Relationship
OSI Stack Model

Sources and Links from the Lecture
Assignment
Semester Project Overview

2 May
What is HTTP?
What is HTML?
Abstraction of Content and Presentation Layers
What is CSS?

Sources and Links from the Lecture
Assignment


9 May
A Crash Course in Web Design
Designing for the Screen vs. Designing for the Page
Typography
Accessibility
Responsive Design
Using CSS

Sources and Links from the Lecture
Assignment


16 May
No Class - Pfingstmontag


23 May
Usability and UX Design
UX Evaluation Techniques

HTML/CSS Hands-on Demo

Sources and Links from the Lecture
Assignment


30 May
AJAX and the Second Coming of the Web
What is DOM?
What is Javascript?
What is XML?

Sources and Links from the Lecture
Assignment


6 June
Midterm Presentations


13 June
No Class - IFD Doktorkolloq


20 June
A Survey of HTML5 Frameworks
Under the Hood with Bootstrap

Sources and Links from the Lecture
Assignment


27 June
The Semantic Web
Web of Things

Sources and Links from the Lecture
Assignment


4 July
No Class - xCoAx2016 Bergamo


11 July
Final Project Presentations

Further Reading

TBA