eScience Lectures Notes : Lecture Introduction
Slide 1 : 1/21: Lecture Introduction
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Tools, Design and Management of
Maturing Hypermedia
then 'n'ext or 'b'ack
Slide 2 : ToC : Lecture Introduction
Table of Contents (21 slides) for the presentation :
Lecture Introduction
Slide 3 : 3/21: In this session : COMP1710 - About the Course
In this session : COMP1710 - About the Course
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Lecturer
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Lecture Contents
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Lecture Organisation
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Students
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What you will do
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Assessment
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Books, Links
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Labs
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Readings
Slide 4 : 4/21: Lecturer and the team
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Room N332 (near the stairs in the middle of the 3rd floor)
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in CS&IT Building (across the road from the Sports Centre)
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Other members of the COMP1710/DCS/ANU Team
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COMP1710 Tutors:
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Administrative questions:
Student-related enquiries: Associate Dean appointments, course, timetable
queries and so on
6125 4043 / CSIT Building 108, Level 3 reception
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Student Advisor :
T 6125 0677. Faculty Office, Ian Ross Building
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Any issues in the Lab: DOI: Division of Information
Chancelry Building 10
Help Desk: 6125 9666
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Slide 5 : 5/21: Lecture Contents
Course Contents
What is called New Media, with a focus on the Web. A balance of :
This course focuses on multimedia and its delivery on
the world wide web. It introduces multimedia as a combination of text, graphics,
video, animation and sound for the purposes of information access, storage and
dissemination. Topics such as the nature of multimedia and types of multimedia
objects, components of a multimedia system, Web authoring, multimedia delivery
tools, multimedia applications and societal implications of multimedia. Students
will have the opportunity to create multimedia applications using HTML, JavaScript,
animation, sound, video and 3D.
General knowledge about New Media (eg from the main textbook)
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Media, nature and digital aspect (Text, Image, Sound, Video etc)
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Navigation
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Management
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Design
Some practical knowledge, mainly associated with the Web
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HTML, CSS, DOM etc
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Media Formats : Gif, Jpeg, PNG, QuickTime, Real, QTVR, VRML etc
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Initiation to scripting through JavaScript (the second
text book)
Exploration of some tools and CMS
Some small exposure to the other side of the web
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XML, XSLT, Apache, Perl, MySQL etc
Slide 6 : 6/21: What the course is not about:
What the course is not about:
Not about Learning a particular HTML editor (Dreamweaver, Golive etc ... )
We will use Dreamweaver, and will 'deconstruct' html to get a
good understanding of HTML
Some specialised tools, but just as examples (Quicktime vs. Real, RealViz Stitcher)
Not about learning to program at
an advanced level
Instead : Cut and Paste and modification/ adaptation of Javascript code
To keep going in that direction?
Slide 7 : 7/21: Life After COMP1710
Life After COMP1710
COMP2720 Automating Tools for New Media (6 units)
Bachelor of Arts in New Media
Python based
This course will introduce script-level programming in
the context of New Media. It is offered in the context of the Bachelor of Arts
in New Media
COMP2750 - Java Programming for New Media: S1/2006
Will start easily with Processing.org
Other options :
Art students, especially those studying New
Media, could be interested in the following courses from the
Department of Computer Science.
Note eventually the Assumed Knowledge in Maths
Another suitable option could be to begin with course
Slide 8 : 8/21: Lecture organisation
Lecture Organisation : when & where
2 hours lecture slot each week
Mondays from 12 pm to 1.45 pm.
1 hour lecture slot each week
Tuesdays from 2 pm to 2.45 pm.
Lecture Organisation : what
On average, we will have 2 hours of lectures each week, and in
some weeks we will have 1 more hour of lectures
Usually the 2 lectures will be on Monday
However we have some guest lecturers who may not be able
to make it on Monday
We also lose 2 Mondays this semester to public holidays so we will
have at least 4 lectures in the Tuesday slot
So, please check the web page regularly to see whether to come on
Tuesday
You may also use the free access Laboratories : any DOI lab
Slide 9 : 9/21: Where: COMP1710 places
Where: COMP1710 places
Slide 10 : 10/21: Students Background
Students Background
From Prerequisites to Assumed Knowledge
You have already surfed the web
It may also be useful to have already used a text editor
N.B. : Word is not a text editor, it is a word processor
Difference : mainly the formatting of the text, proprietary
format
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Word Processors |
SMS entry on mobile phone
HyperEdit
SubEthaEdit
BBEdit
BBEdit Lite
Jedit
SimpleText
TextEdit
NotePad
vi
emacs
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AppleWorks
ClarisWorks
OpenOffice
Microsoft Word
Nisus Writer
WordPerfect
Mellel
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Slide 11 : 11/21: Students
Students
Background : Art, Engineering, Mathematics, Geology etc
Main way to contact you: uXXXXXXX@anu.edu.au
So if you prefer to stick to some other e-mail address, do two things:
Redirect e-mail from your uXXXXXXX account so you get my E-mails
Include your uXXXXXXX number in any E-mails you send me
Why? In case you miss some important course announcements, such as an extension to an assignment deadline and so on
COMP1710 is part of the core of the Bachelor of Arts in New Media
and part of the IT for New Media major (the major is also a BIT major)
This course has 105 enrolled students (23/02/09)
Enrol / Withdraw date: 31 March 2009. (HECS Census Date)
A student may enrol or withdraw without incurring HECS
up to and including the census date which is 31 March.
There is a small University admin. charge for changes after 7 March.
See The Student Enrolment and
Administrative Procedures (SEAP) for official details.
Slide 12 : 12/21: Assessment
Assessment: 20 + 40 + 40
Assessment is based on three assignments (based
on lab work), a report and a written exam.
Assignment (in 3 components) on Web site construction: 40 marks
a Web site appearance design: 10 marks
some components of website developed: 15 marks
full Web site developed: 15 marks
The assignments are based on the labs, approximately every 3 labs is
one assignment
A report on user centred design: 20 marks
Written exam in June: 40 marks
You can bring 1 sheet A4
Printed both sides ok
Can have microscopic print
Note about dictionaries: go and check with the Examinations office
early enough
The Examinations office now have a form which students
are required to complete and obtain the necessary permission to use a dictionary
in an examination. This replaces the old method of examiners having to print
individual letters for students.
Forms are available from the front office counter. Students are required to
obtain signature(s) from the relevant examiner(s) then take the completed form
together with their dictionary to the Examinations Office. The dictionary is
left at the examinations office and returned to the student at the examination.
Students need to take their dictionary and approval to the examinations office
24 hrs prior to the scheduled examination.
Slide 13 : 13/21: Final Mark : Not just the sum
Assessment: 20 + 40 + 40
Final Mark: the sum of marks, but need to pass all report, assignment and
exam components
Need to submit everything (or else DA or NCN)
To Pass, you have the get a minimum mark in each part
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Report >= 10
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Assignments >= 20
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Exam >= 20
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There may be some adjustment/scaling of the final mark.
Supplementary Exams
Must have obtained a final mark >= 45.
Access to your marks
Slide 14 : 14/21: Labs
Laboratories
Not optional :
Building blocks to do the Assignments
Were Marked last year as follows:
You need to attend the lab to get the marks (0 / 1 / 2)
Don't Attend / Play on computers = 0 marks
Attend = 1 marks
Attend and work on lab / assignment / COMP1710 related stuff = 2 marks
Individual work
Be Careful about plagiarism - it is bad, and not appreciated.
Difference between "asking how to do something" and "asking
to do something" or worst - "taking something"
Slide 15 : 15/21: Readings
Readings
Not optional
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Complement to the online lecture notes
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May be source of questions for the final exam
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Based on the Textbooks or some additional papers provided during the lectures
This week's reading:
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Surf the Web
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Chapter 1 (p6-30) of "Unusually useful web book"
Slide 16 : 16/21: Books
Books
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Textbook
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The Unusually Useful Web Book
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Everything we've learned about why sites succeed!
by June Cohen / New Riders
Other books
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The Web Wizard's Guide to Javascript
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by Steven G. Estrella / Addison-Welsey
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Design for New Media
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Interaction Design for Multimedia and the Web
by Lon Barfield / Pearson - Addison Welsey
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Any other from the Addison-Welsey's Web Wizard series
See "Unusually etc" online
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Slide 17 : 17/21: Workload
Workload
University policy about student workloads:
10-12 hours a week:
lecture (3 hrs) + lab (1+2+1) + read (1) + assignments (2)
Memorisation technique:
After the lecture:
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+ one day (1)
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+ one week (30min)
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+ one month (30min)
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+ before the exam
Slide 18 : 18/21: Links
Links
Some links for each part of the lectures
Contextual links
Main links
Slashdot http://slashdot.org
'News for nerds, stuff that matters.'
Useit www.useit.com
Usability guidelines.
W3C - World Wide Web Consortium www.w3.org
Body overseeing the development of web standards, protocols and guidelines for
best practice.
Webmonkey http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey
Web developers' resource.
Slide 19 : 19/21: Web issues
Web issues
Handouts
shortcut : escience/comp1710 or escience/nm
All lecture notes will be available on the course
web site.
The final handouts should be available, at the very latest, the Thursday following
the lecture.
slightly irrelevant remarks : what is happening with that
shortcut ?
1) http:// 2) escience 3) .anu.edu.au 4) :80 5) cg 6)
/index.html 7) : Redirection from an HTML file
and as a redirection through the webct web site
Some tips on how to use the web site
Table of contents, print link, link link, navigation
CSS are the best way to change the look of a web page without
touching its content. It helps to deal with Accessibility issues. The idea
is that text content is not corrupted by visual formatting.
Be sure that your web browser accept CCS. Netscape (>
4) and IE (>= 5) should be OK. Go to the W3C
web site to check the list.
I will be using CSS in order to use the same document
for slides, handouts and even my lecture notes. The differences will be done
only by the application of different Style Sheets on the same web pages.
Additional Formats
Both of the following formats are based on XML and will perhaps
be used in the handouts.
They are both new on the web in the sense that they
are not yet set by default in main browser installations. Nevertheless, good
Plug-Ins already exist to visualise those formats into web pages. To learn more
about web standards and XML stuff, check the W3C
web site : http://www.w3C.org/ .
Even if we don't eventually use these additional format s
in the present lecture notes, it is interesting to have a look at them
SVG is a challenger to Flash and Shockwave, the Macromedia
format. Although SVG will
add many capabilities that are not directly available in Flash, by far the biggest
difference between SVG and Flash is that the former is public and the latter
is proprietary.
has released a good plug-in for SVG.
MathML is an XML application for describing mathematical
notation and capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is
to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the Web, just
as HTML has enabled this functionality for text.
IBM is providing a plug-in for MathML. Not will only this plug-in
allow you to visualise MathML, but techexplorer enables the display of
TeX, LaTeX and MathML documents and the publishing of interactive scientific
material on the Web. Version 3.1 includes full support for MathML 2.0
Slide 20 : 20/21: Questions, Feedback
Questions, Feedback, Availability
During the lecture
At the end of the lecture
For the tricky ones
Then I will be able to postpone the answer to the next
discussion class or next lecture, so everyone benefits
Best time is during or after a discussion meeting (or a lecture)
For individual question
At any time, by e-mail: tom.gedeon@anu.edu.au
but I may wait until the next lecture or discussion meeting to
discuss at length, or e-mail an anonymised answer to everyone
By appointment
Whenever you want - but I may not be in my office or may be busy
Questions ??
Slide 21 : ToC : Lecture Introduction
Table of Contents (21 slides) for the presentation :
Lecture Introduction