DECO1400 Lecture 1
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About Nell
Dr Nilufar (Nell) Baghaei ([email protected])
- Senior Lecturer @ ITEE
- Co-Director of Extended Reality Lab @ UQ
Research Interests: Games for Health & Education, Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality, AI in Education
Background:
- PhD in Computer Science, Canterbury University, NZ
- Software Engineer @ SunGard, Christchurch, NZ
- Researcher at CSIRO
- Programme Leader / Head of Department @ OPAIC
- Senior Lecturer teaching Games Programming, Massey University
Assessment
| Assessment Task | Due Date | Weighting |
|---|---|---|
| Online Quiz | Week 7 (6 Apr 16:00) | 20% |
| Ripple Participation info | 20 Feb 8:30 to 26 May 16:00 | 10% |
| Project - Website Design | 21 Apr 23 16:00 | 20% |
| Project - Website Implementation | 22 May 23 8:30 | 50% |
For the Website Implementation assignment, have to produce source code, as well as a poster (and in-class presentation).
- Must show up in Week 11 to show progress of website implementation to tutors
RiPPLE Assignment
- Four rounds throughout the semester
- For each round (due 2.5%):
- Post 1 question, practice 5 questions and moderate 5 questions
RiPPLE Due Dates
| Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|
| 20 Feb 9:00AM | 12 Mar 11:55PM |
| 13 Mar 9:00AM | 2 Apr 11:55PM |
| 3 Apr 9:00AM | 23 Apr 11:55PM |
| 24 Apr 9:00AM | 21 May 11:55PM |
Course Structure
Learning Objectives:
- Demonstrate an understanding of design principles and good practice through critical review of existing websites.
- Demonstrate technical proficiency through semantic markup of content using HTML
- Demonstrate technical proficiency through appropriate & meaningful styling of HTML documents with CSS
- Demonstrate technical proficiency by adding appropriate & meaningful interactivity to HTML documents using jQuery/JavaScript
- Apply the appropriate design principles and methods to the effective design of user-centred websites.
- Implement a good practice standards based approach to the development of websites
- Effectively communicate design & development decisions in written and oral form.
- Demonstrate a basic understanding of privacy, networking & security management in the context of web design.