Lab Work

Hi everyone, this is what we will be doing as part of lab work practice. Adhere to the deadline.
Do not forget that lab work accounts for 10% of your final grade.

Preliminaries: Click here to learn how to set up your local server environment

1. Lab 0  Deadline: October 7, 2016 
2. Lab 1  Deadline: October 7, 2016
3. Lab 2  Deadline: October 7, 2016 
4. Lab 3 Deadline: October 14, 2016 
5. Lab 4_a Deadline: October 31, 2016
6. Lab 4_b Deadline: October 31, 2016
7. Lab 5 Deadline: November 10, 2016
8. Lab 6 Deadline: November 20, 2016

I will be attaching more lab work as we go....

Class notes

Hi everyone, get class notes from here

1. Introduction
2. Anatomy of the web
3. Introduction to HTML plus span and div tags
4. DNS resolution
5. CSS
6. Javascript 
7. introduction to PHP 
8. Differences between POST and GET

The notes may have some content that we did not discuss in class. just concentrate only on the content we discussed in class. 

Assignment 1 - 2 Tasks

Task 1 

Create a personal blog using Google blogger. The blog should have the following characteristics 

1. Should have your name and admission number on it
2. Should have your contacts: Email and phone number as a Page
3. You have the name and code of this unit: 

This blog will be used to submit your work; assignments, term papers, projects etc... by sharing a link on my class blog 

Grade: contributes 1% of final grade. 

Deadline: September 20, 2016 

Task 2 

- You are required to submit a 3 page (excluding abstract, references and appendix) research paper detailing why journalists need web design skills and what journalists needs to know about web design. 

- Your paper should use quality reference materials (do not use Wikipedia); use at least 6 references

- Referencing and citation should follow APA 6. 

- Use Times New Roman font face, 12 pt font size and 1.5 spacing

Grade: contributes 3% of final grade.  

Deadline: September 27, 2016 

N/B: We will discuss on how you will submit your work on Friday 16. 

Course outline

- Download course outline  here

- 95% of this unit is practical, so arrange to have a personal machine- laptop; we cannot depend on institution labs due to availability.

- Ensure you come with writing materials to make short notes during lessons.

- Passing this unit will be DIFFICULT if you miss classes.

- Subscribe to this blog so that you are alerted when I add or update any part of this blog.

- Ensure the following are installed in your machine

1. XAMPP for windows. You can download here 
2. Any code editor for PHP