% Author: Ian! D. Allen - idallen@idallen.ca - www.idallen.com % Date: Fall 2011 - September to December 2011 - Updated 2011-12-09 10:54 EST % Title: Week 14 Notes for CST8281 - Fall 2011 - [Course Home Page] - [Course Outline] - [All Weeks] - [Plain Text] Final Exam Schedule Posted ========================== - The Final Exam date is posted on the [Course Home Page]. - For full mark credit, read the [Test Instructions] for important directions on how to enter your answers on the mark-sense forms. - Basic calculators are permitted for the final exam. (No phones or PDA devices.) You will not need one if you know your powers of two. Lecture Notes for This Week =========================== From the Class Notes link on the Course Home Page ------------------------------------------------- - [Course Home Page] - [All Weeks] - [550_web_what_vs_how.html] - Presentation vs. Content - Separating form and content - Keeping “How” separate from “What” in Web design (See also - The machine is Us/ing Us) - [555_web_design.html] - Web Design - Best and Worst Practices - [700_basic_css.html] - Basic CSS ### Assignments - All remaining course assignments are posted. Check the dates. - [Assignment #13] - HTML and CSS Study and Review - LAST ASSIGNMENT - see also Self-Mark 13 From the Internet ----------------- Social Commentary: - - What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else - - The machine is Us/ing Us: Separating form and content - - The Digital Imprimatur: How big brother and big media can put the Internet genie back in the bottle. About creating good HTML web pages: - - Web Accessibility Guidelines - - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Overview - - Canadian Government: Common Look and Feel for the Internet 2.0 - - To Hell with WCAG 2 (critique of WCAG2) - - WCAG Samurai (corrections for, and extensions to, WCAG 1.0) - *Tables for layout and frames are banned and all guidelines relating to tables for layout and frames are deleted.* - Cleaning up bad HTML using Tidy: From the Classroom Whiteboard/Chalkboard ---------------------------------------- - Your in-class notes go here. - Course Evaluations open to midnight Friday December 9: Express your opinions or else your next course may be taught by a robot! - Lab work in Week 14: - finish the self-mark - Interview with Natalie Prowse, Director of IT at Alcatel-Lucent: You’re invited to an interactive Q&A session with Alcatel-Lucent Director of IT Natalie Prowse at noon in T130 today (Friday Dec 9). Natalie is an Ottawa resident who has been with several dot.com start-ups, but still manages to have a creative personal life. (See attached photo!) Working at one of those start-ups, Natalie once wrote: ![Natalie Prowse]  > Recently, I’ve been interviewing people for an IT position. I’m an exec, > but of a small company, so I literally roll up my sleeves when required and > manage the servers and network alongside my existing IT admin as and when > needed, so I know a fair bit about the actual day-to-day workings of > corporate IT infrastructure. I’m also wickedly good at debugging and > problem solving. > > After going through a round of interviews this week, I’m going to impart > some sage advice to those who might be reading and want to have a hope of > having a successful career in IT. - Natalie Prowse - We’ll take it from there. You’re invited. All welcome. - /*EOF -- | Ian! D. Allen - idallen@idallen.ca - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Home Page: http://idallen.com/ Contact Improv: http://contactimprov.ca/ | College professor (Free/Libre GNU+Linux) at: http://teaching.idallen.com/ | Defend digital freedom: http://eff.org/ and have fun: http://fools.ca/ [Plain Text] - plain text version of this page in [Pandoc Markdown] format [Course Home Page]: .. [Course Outline]: course_outline.pdf [All Weeks]: indexcgi.cgi [Plain Text]: week14notes.txt [Test Instructions]: 000_test_instructions.html [550_web_what_vs_how.html]: 550_web_what_vs_how.html [555_web_design.html]: 555_web_design.html [700_basic_css.html]: 700_basic_css.html [Assignment #13]: assignment13.txt [Natalie Prowse]: common/natalie_small.jpg [Pandoc Markdown]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/