Web Development
 DART 230

TR 11-12:15 (S 21) H-182

Syllabus

Instructor:
John Beatty
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E-mail: beatty@lasalle.edu

Office:157 Olney

Office hours:
M, W 3:30-5, W 11-12, R 4-5 and by appointment

Office phone: (215) 951-5004

Home phone: (610) 433-5339

Professionalism

  • Just as if you were “On the job” I expect you to attend class. Roll will be taken at each class meeting. For any absence to be excused you must contact me beforehand and provide documentation of your explanation or have a friend do so if you are unable.
  • Given normal extenuating circumstances, you will be allowed a total of four unexcused class absences. Further unexcused absences, or excessive excused absences will lower your final grade.
  • Assignments, tests or quizzes missed due to excused absences can be made up. Those missed due to unexcused absences cannot.
  • You have the reponsibility to read and follow relevant sections of the La Salle Student Handbook. This includes forbidding of plagiarism defined here as knowingly presenting as one’s own the work or ideas of another, and self-plagiarism, presenting as original work that was completed for another college course. Normal penalties for plagiarism include a zero grade for the test or assignment, with a failing grade for the course a possibility.

Assignments

  • There will be a two tests and a final exam/test. This is a technical subject area that requires you to be conversant with extensive terminology, principles, and concepts.
  • Tests will include material from class including handouts, readings from the Web, and the primary text:
    Castro, E. (2007). HTML, XHTML & CSS (6th ed.). Berkeley, CA: Peachpit, and (Book Web site).

  • Recommended is: Negrino, T., & Smith, D. (2009). Dreamweaver CS4 for Windows and MacIntosh. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit.
  • Note that other recommended references for this course include Jakob Nielsen’s Designing Web Usability and Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think. A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability.
  • Our library has subscribed to a series of computer books online. Of interest for this course would be those on JavaScript, CSS, Photoshop and Dreamweaver. Open the portal and go to the list of databases by subject, then scroll down to Safari Tech Books Online. That link will send you to the Safari site if you're logged in to the portal.

  • Other assignments include hand-coded pages and components, Dreamweaver lab assignments, site-of-the-day presentations, a content-based Web site, and a commercial or organizational Web site.

Grading

  • Weights will be assigned as follows:
    Tests 20%
    Exercises (hand-coding, etc.) 15%
    Site(s) of the day 5%
    Content site 25%
    Organizational/commercial site 25%
    Final test 10%
  • Grade Assignment: A = 94 and above; A- = 90-93; B+ = 87-89; B = 84-86; B- = 80-83; C+ = 77-79; C = 74-76; C- = 70-73; D+ = 67-69; D = 60-66; F = below 60.
    In other words:
    • A = All major and minor goals achieved
    • B = All major goals achieved, some minor ones not
    • C = All major goals achieved, many minor ones not
    • D = A few major goals achieved but not prepared for further advanced work
    • F = None of the major goals achieved

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