Dearly Beloved Students:

Welcome to Introduction to Computer Programming:Javascript. This is the second in a series of 3 trimester classes designed to make you a "self-proclaimed webmaster". Course, you could do that right now, but it's more fun to brag when it's the truth. If you have made it this far, you have passed the first trimester class on basic HTML tags and web design. This trimester will focus on a scripting language called "Javascript". It's chief claim to fame is it's ability to add some degree of interactivity for your user no matter what platform(Windows, Mac, etc.) or what browser(Netscape, IE, Opera, etc.) is being used. An example of Javascript is on our main page. I have written a script into the HTML document, index.htm, that causes 4 images to rotate with each other every 2 seconds. This trimester, you will learn how to write scripts that allow your webpages to be a little more dynamic.

We will also learn a few tricks involving Cascading Style Sheets. Using styles, we will focus on the added features they allow you to do that plain HTML does not allow. Of course, you could do your whole website in style sheets and perhaps after learning a few tricks you may convert yourself to becoming a "stylin' webmaster".

First, however, we will focus on creating animations using Adobe's Image Ready 2.0. Many of you copied and pasted animated GIF's into your earlier webpages. But, how do you create those? That will be the first task we learn in the second trimester of "Introduction to Programming".

Much of your time will involve using the basic HTML coding that you learned in the first trimester of this program. And, you will again be creating and maintaining webpages. But, hopefully with these three new tools, your pages will have a more professional design.

Let's get started!!

Lotsa Luck,

Rholl

Index Grading Schedule Photoshop Styles Resources Exercises Links