Lesson 1 - Setup Zybooks & Sensei

Build websites by Christmas

LEARN

Welcome to Web Development

Computers and phones request content from web servers

Lesson 1 Agenda

• The world today
• New ideas of literacy
• About BACS 200
• Zybooks Readings

Time of Crisis

• Extraordinary time of history
• Crisis produces opportunity
• This class will teach skills that you can use

New Ideas of Literacy

• 1980 - 3Rs
• 1990 - Computers - Microsoft Office
• 2000 - Internet - Google, Amazon
• 2010 - Phone - Social Media
• 2020 - Human Connection - YouTube

Literacy Today

• Google
• eCommerce
• Social media
• Crowd sourcing

Literacy Today

• Understand the human impact of technology
• The new literacy is about using technology to connect
• Avoid the harmful affects of technology
• Create sustainable and healthy practices

Opportunity

• Understanding technology is your competitive advantage.
• Workplace restructuring is your key opportunity.
• Literacy is always about sharing ideas.
• You will be hired to help with technology.

Software Runs the World

• Every industry - Retail, Transportation, Health care, Education, Government, Business, Research
• Every aspect of work
• Every business

Web Development

Computers and phones request content from web servers

What will you learn?

• Business and Social Issues
• Technology - how it works
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
• Projects - hands-on creative problem solving
  • Design - Beautiful pages
  • Development - Tools & Techniques

Zybooks Reading

• Sign up for Zybooks
• Reading assigned every day
• If you fall behind catch up

Reading Schedule

• BACS 200 Reading Schedule
• Lesson 1 - Mon, 08-23 - 1.1 Web history
• Lesson 2 - Wed, 08-25 - 1.2 IP addresses and URLs
• Lesson 3 - Fri, 08-27 - 1.3 HTTP

Lessons & Demos

• Lessons for each day with recorded video
• Each class you will learn a skill
• You will be given demo code to show the skill
• Projects will require you to demonstrate your skill
• Work the demos on your own
• Many demos will have recorded videos

Projects & Help

• Projects assigned every week
• Lessons and Project are posted on the Sensei server
• Late project have a late penalty (10% for first week, and 20% for later)

BACS 200 Class sessions

• You will work on your own on the Lectures, Reading, Projects
• Wednesday: 2:30-3:20 Kepner 0090
• Get Help when you are stuck
• No need to attend if you are able to do the project

BACS 200 Grading

• 50% Reading, 50% Projects
• Graded assignments every week (14 weeks)
• Do not fall behind

Reasons to drop

• This class will make you think
• Time - 9 hours per week

Web Servers and Web Browsers

Web servers responds with the requested web pages

BUILD

You should build something!

Canvas

• Gradebook and assignments due
• Check Canvas daily
• Contact me through Canvas
• Respond to message I send you

Sensei student account

• Sensei is where lessons and projects are posted
• You have a custom dashboard that tracks your progress
• Activate your student account today
• Worth 10 points (Grading on Tues, Aug 25)

Zybooks

• Do daily readings and exercises
• A student subscription is $58 and will last until May.
• Register at ZyBooks
• Signup at Zybooks for Web Publishing interactive textbook
  1. Create an account at Zybooks
  2. Enter zyBook code: UNCOBACS200SeamanFall2021
  3. Subscribe
• Your progress is automatically recorded and reported

Read lesson 1

• Follow Reading Schedule
• Read Lesson 1 Today (Grading on Tues, Aug 24 - worth 10 points)
• Lesson 1 - Mon, 08-23 - 1.1 Web history

Lesson 2

• Web Servers and Browsers
• Github and Version Control
• Build your first web page