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
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
Send an email to: info [ät] reizner [punkt] org
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?
11 May
A Crash Course in Web Design
Designing for the Screen vs. Desiging for the Page
Typography
Accessibility
18 May
AJAX and the Second Coming of the Web
What is DOM?
What is Javascript?
What is XML?
25 May
No Class - Pfingstmontag
1 June
Usability and UX Design
UX Evaluation Techniques
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