Announcements
- Jan 5. The Zoom recording of the lecture for Monday, Jan 5, is posted.
Find it on D2L at
Content >> Zoom Invites and Recordings. - Jan 5. A dropbox is posted on D2L for submitting your study logs. Recall that you need not submit study logs if you attend class meetings synchronously via Zoom.
- Jan 5. Attendance counts 10% of your grade. Students in the sync section obtain credit
for attendance by attending Zoom class sessions. Students in the async section
or anyone that must miss a class, obtain credit for attendance by submitting a
study log for that week, which will summarize what you did to study for IT 238
during that week. Although exactly what you submit is up to you, here are some
suggestions: the number of hours you spent studying for the various parts of the
class (e.g., watching lectures and studying class examples, working on
tutorials, projects, and practice quizzes), what did you find interesting, hard,
or confusing, what questions did you have? If you have questions for the
instructor, email him directly, in addition to putting these questions in the
study log.
Even if you are in the async section, you are welcome to attend the class via Zoom any time you are available. If you attend both class meetings for a week, you need not submit a study log for that week. - Jan 5. The first class meeting of IT 238 is in Room CDM 222 at 11:50 AM on March 31. This class meeting is synchronous in person or via Zoom.
- Jan 5. My cell number is 847/612-7285. If you text or email me, please identify yourself because I don't have a list of your phone numbers. If you email me over the weekend, you may want to also text me to let me know that I should check for your email.
- Jan 5. Scheduled office hours are from 5 pm to 5:45 pm on Tuesdays and 3:00 pm to 3:45 pm on Wednesdays via phone or Zoom. We can set up a Zoom session if necessary. Use the Office Hours Zoom link, which will be posted on D2L. To talk to me outside of these scheduled office hours, call, text, or email to make an appointment.
- Jan 5. The online textbook for this class: Marijn Haverbecke, Eloquent JavaScript, A Modern Introduction to Programming, 3rd Edition, No Starch Press, 2019. Here is a link to the Eloquent JavaScript book as a PDF document.
- Jan 5. Download Visual Studio Code, from this site:
https://code.visualstudio.com/download, if you don't already have it installed. We will use the VS Code to create and edit HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files for this class. - Jan 5. Download FileZilla to use for uploading projects to the studentweb.cdm.depaul.edu server. Here are links to download FileZilla for Windows: https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?platform=win64 and for Mac: https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?platform=osx
- Jan 5. The dropbox for Project 0 is posted on D2L. It is due on Apr 8.
- Jan 5. Practice quizzes count 10% of your grade. You will be allowed three tries for each quiz. The highest score will be used for your practice quiz score. A practice quiz will be posted on each Friday except midterm week. This quiz will be due 8 days later on Sunday night at 11:59 pm.
- Jan 5. The deadline to drop this course with full tuition refund and no W grade on transcript: Friday, Apr 11 at 11:59 pm.
- Jan 5. Set the Microsoft Explorer on your Windows PC to show file extensions:
Invoke the Windows 10 File Explorer by selecting Start, All Programs, Accessories, and Windows Explorer.
From the File Explorer, select the main menu item Tools, check the box File name extensions
Mac and Unix do not have official file extensions.
