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
Registration for Summer Semester 2016 is now closed.
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 (subject to change)
18 April
Introduction
Course Organization
Administrative Housekeeping
Semester Evaluation Rubric
Assignment
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
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
For next week, please review the following text:
http://adaptivepath.org/ideas/ajax-new-approach-web-applications/
20 June
AJAX and the Second Coming of the Web
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