IFD:Vague but Exciting-SoS15

Vague, but Exciting: An Introduction to Web Technologies Fachmodul
Vague, but Exciting: Grundlagen der Webtechnologien Werkmodul
Instructor: Jason Reizner
Credits: 6 ECTS, 3 SWS
Capacity: max. 20 students
Language: English (Deutsch)
Date: Fachmodul: Monday, 13:30 to 16:00
Date: Werkmodul: nach Absprache
Location: Marienstr. 7b, Room 105

First Meeting: Monday, May 4th, 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

Registration for Summer Semester 2015 is now closed.

Evaluation

Successful completion of the course is dependent on regular attendance, active participation and delivery of a relevant semester project.

Eligible participants

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

Werkmodul:
BFA Medienkunst/-gestaltung

Syllabus

4 May
How does this work?
How did we get here?
A brief history of networked computing
Client/Server Relationship
OSI Stack Model
What is HTTP?
What is HTML?
Abstraction of Content and Presentation Layers
What is CSS?

Sources and Links from the Lecture
Assignment
Semester Project Overview


11 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


18 May
Usability and UX Design
UX Evaluation Techniques

HTML/CSS Hands-on Demo

Sources and Links from the Lecture
Assignment


25 May
No Class - Pfingstmontag


1 June
AJAX and the Second Coming of the Web
What is DOM?
What is Javascript?
What is XML?


8 June
Midterm Presentations


15 June
The Semantic Web
Web of Things

22 June
No Class - xCoAx2015 Glasgow
Possible alternatives: Wednesday, 1 July / Friday, 3 July?


29 June
TBA

6 July
Debugging Lab Day


13 July
Final Project Presentations