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SOFT 136 01 – Module Introduction

SOFT 136 01 – Module Introduction. About Me. Contact Details Mark Dixon mark.dixon@plymouth.ac.uk 01752 232556 Portland Square Room B316 Availability Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu – School of Computing Communications and Electronics (main campus) Fri – other work (usually off-campus). Module Aims.

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SOFT 136 01 – Module Introduction

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  1. SOFT 13601 – Module Introduction

  2. About Me • Contact DetailsMark Dixonmark.dixon@plymouth.ac.uk01752 232556Portland SquareRoom B316 • AvailabilityMon, Tue, Wed, Thu – School of Computing Communications and Electronics (main campus)Fri – other work (usually off-campus)

  3. Module Aims • This module aims to teach you, how to: • learn (self-directed) • surface learning (memorisation of isolated facts): hacking • deep learning (interrelated concepts) • includes interacting with others (lecturers, students, …) • develop software: • fundamental programming concepts (e.g. events, procedures) • how to combine these to solve problems • use Visual BASIC

  4. Module Admin • Lectures and tutorials: • start at 5 minutes past the hour, and • aim to end at 5 minutes to the hour • if no lecturer - wait until 15 minutes past the hour then you may leave • Turn mobile phones off. • Ask questions or comment at any time • Feel free to talk quietly amongst yourselves • Material (slides, handouts, etc.) available before session, on: Soft131 web-site (mdixon.soc.plymouth.ac.uk) • Lectures: • Don’t come in after 15 minutes past the hour.

  5. Module Format The module is delivered as follows: • Lecture: 1 hr per week, all groups, Mondays 09:05 – 09:55 • Tutorials / Practical Session: 2 hr per week Mondays 13:00 – 15:00 • Private study (as much as it takes – typically 3 hours/week) • 1 to 1 sessions (my office or labs) as needed at your request • Teaching Evaluation (timely and specific) • Student Perception Questionnaire • Continuous Informal Feedback (talk to me)

  6. Schedule (subject to change)

  7. Reading List 1 The following book is recommended reading: • Deitel H, & Deitel P (2006) Visual BASIC 2005 How to program. Pearson Education Inc. ISBN 0-13-227958-4

  8. Reading List 2 Additional reading (the following are referred to occasionally, borrow from library): • Pressman, R (2000) Software Engineering: a practitioner's approach. 5th edition. McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 0-07-709677-0. • Sommerville, I (2001) Software Engineering. 6th edition. Addison-Wesley. ISBN: 0-201-39815-X. • Overview of Software Engineering: Chapter 1, especially page 4. • Preece, J; Rogers, Y; Sharp, H; Benyon, D; Holland, S; and Carey, T (1994) Human-Computer Interaction. Addison Wesley. ISBN: 0-201-62769-8 • Direct Manipulation: Section 13.6, pages 270-272. • Interface Design: Chapter 24, pages 487-499. • Shneiderman, Ben (1998) Designing the user interface: strategies for effective human-computer interaction. 3rd edition. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-69497-2004.019 SHN

  9. Student Background • Typically wide range of prior experience • 10 years programming (professional?) • 5 years programming (professional?) • 2 years programming (learning?) • 1 year programming (learning) • no programming • Can be difficult to cater for all number ofstudents A B C D E

  10. Attendance • Attendance is compulsoryand essential to pass • This is not a distance learning course • portal is supplement (not replacement) for attending lectures and tutorials

  11. Last Year Results • 17 students • 12 failed initially (71%) • Students thought module would be easy • only 2 students failed retakes (12%)

  12. Student Feedback • feedback form • filled in by students • handed in with assignment • this student: • failed (low attendance, low contact with me) • did referred work (over summer) • passed

  13. Student feedback (zoom)

  14. Admin – free software • Technicians (Babbage 205) can provide you with free copies of (bring your own blank CDs): • MS Windows XP Professional (1 CD), includes • MS Internet Information Services (term 2) • MS Visual Studio 2005 (4 CDs), includes • Visual Web Developer 2005 • Visual BASIC 2005 • Visual C++ 2005

  15. Admin – jobs • Computer weekly (jobs in 7 days) 1 Oct 2006 29 Sep 2005 • java 3237 (2234) • VB 1671 (1614) • ASP 1709 (1355) • php 551 (215) • flash 407 (168) • dreamweaver 171 (69) www.cwjobs.co.uk

  16. Admin – jobs

  17. HTML: Elements & Tags • Hyper-Text Markup Language • text files – edited with notepad • tags, e.g. <b> <html> </a> • element = start tag + content + end tag • bold: <b>This will be in bold</b> • italic: <i>This will be in italic</i> • work like brackets • start/open <b> <i> • end/close </b> </i>

  18. HTML: page structure head (info) body(content) • every HTML page has 2 sections: <html> <head> <title>Test</title> </head> <body> <p>This is a test <b>page</b>. </body> </html>

  19. HTML: Attributes • Some tags need extra information to work: • Anchor (hyper-link) element: <a href=“nextpage.htm”>Next Page</a> • Image element: <img src=“Beach.jpg”> • Embedded object element: <embed src=“Music.mp3”> attribute (page to jump to) attribute (filename of picture to display) attribute (filename of music to play)

  20. Example: Intro page <html> <head> <title>Mark Dixon's web site</title> </head> <body background="BackGround.JPG"> <font size=+3><center><b><p> Mark Dixon's web site</b></center> <font size=+2> <p>Welcome to my web server. Please select from the following list: <ul> <li><a href="./Soft131/Index.htm"> Soft131: Introduction to programming for Multimedia and Internet applications.</a> </ul> </font> </body> </html>

  21. HTML Tags: Reference • Lots of info available on-line, e.g.: http://www.willcam.com/cmat/html/crossref.html • Short list of tags: • <p>: new paragraph • <b>: bold text • <i>: italic text • <a>: anchor (link) to another web page • <img>: image/picture (.bmp, .jpg, .gif) • <embed>: embedded object (.avi .mpg .wav .mp3)

  22. Visual Studio 2005

  23. Create New Web-site • Select Empty web site • Browse to U:\ and create folder

  24. Create New Web page

  25. Create New Web Page • Select HTML Page • Type filename

  26. Visual Studio Design view – see page as it will appear

  27. Visual Studio Source view – see HTML code

  28. View page (Run)

  29. Enable debugging • Select Add new Web.config file

  30. Example: My Summer My summer web-page

  31. Tutorial Exercise 1: My Summer • LEARNING OBJECTIVE: to understand tags, elements, and attributes, so that you can create your own web-pages using Visual Studio 2005 • TASK: Create a ‘My Summer’ web page, which describes the highlights of what you did over the summer, including text, pictures, and sound.

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