UCSC: Art 101: Introduction to Computer Programming for the Arts

Meetings and Tentative Syllabus

NOTE: M1 = Myers HTML&CSS, M2=Myers JavaScript

Week 01, 3/31

HTML&CSS: M1 Chs. 1-11. Text formats.

JS: M2 Chs. 1-9. Alert. variables, prompts.

Week 02, 4/07

HTML&CSS: M1 Chs. 12-22. Colors, boxes, ID, Div.

JS: M2 Chs. 10-20. If statements, arrays, for loops.

Week 03, 4/14

HTML&CSS: M1 Chs. 23-33. Images, links.

JS: M2 Chs. 21-30. Strings, numbers.

Week 04, 4/21

HTML&CSS: M1 Chs. 34-40. Image maps, lists, selectors.

JS: M2 Chs. 31-38. Dates, functions.

CANVAS: Drawing to the canvas, 2d

Week 05, 4/28

HTML&CSS: M1 Chs. 41-48. Tables.

JS: M2 Chs. 39-50. Switch, while, do statements, events.

CANVAS: Text

Week 06, 5/05

HTML&CSS: M1 Chs. 49-59. Forms, comments.

JS: M2 Chs. 51-57. HTML code for web pages.

CANVAS: Images

Week 07, 5/12

HTML&CSS: M1 Chs. 60-68. Modern header.

JS: M2 Chs. 58-68. The Document Object Model (DOM).

CANVAS: Animation

Week 08, 5/19

HTML&CSS: M1 Chs. 69-78. Navigation bars.

JS: M2 Chs. 69-81. Objects.

CANVAS: Video

Week 09, 5/26

HTML&CSS: M1 Chs. 79-90. Video, Z-index.

JS: M2 Chs. 82-89. Forms, exceptions, events.

CANVAS: WebGL for 3D.

Week 10, 6/02

Review and integration.

Final exam, Monday 6/08, 7:30-10:30 pm

Revised 18 April 2015 by Ralph