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Multimedia Project Lab: Spring 2011 Syllabus

BMCC MMP 460

Borough of Manhattan Community College
The City University of New York
Multimedia Programming & Design

Course Number: MMP 460
Course Title: Multimedia Project Lab
Instructor: Matthew Belanger
Semester: Spring 2011
Lecture Hours per Week: 3
Lab Hours per Week: 2
Credits: 4

A. Description

Students will work collaboratively to plan, design and create a complete interactive project. Projects may be drawn from such applications as: information kiosks; computer assisted instruction; and creation of World Wide Web sites.

B. Prerequisites

Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: MAT 051
Basic Skills: ENG 088, ESL 062, RDG 062, MAT 010/011 and MMP 320 or CCC 270 or ART 354

C. Student Learning Objectives

By the end of the course students will be expected to:
• Create a portfolio of their work to assist them in meeting their career goals.
• Work in groups to plan, design and produce a complete, functional, website that meets real-world, concrete needs.

D. Readings

Recommended Texts
The Essential Guide to CSS and HTML Web Design by Craig Grannell
Web ReDesign 2.0: Workflow that Works by Kelly Goto and Emily Cotler
Designing a Digital Portfolio by Cynthia Baron

E. Evaluation and Requirements of Students

Grading
• Portfolio: 30%
• Group Project: 60%
• In Class Performance and Attendance: 10%

Assignments must be handed in on time. Points will be deducted on work handed in late. Assignments may not be accepted for grading if they are late.

Use of Technology
• Software Adobe Creative Suite 5 including Flash Professional, DreamWeaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Sound Forge.
• Hardware Portable media for storing projects, such as a flash drive or CD ROMs will be necessary. Students will also load their projects onto the MMP server.

F. Attendance Policy

The College’s attendance policy states “At BMCC, the maximum number of absences is limited to one more hour than the number of hours a class meets in one week. In the case of excessive absence the instructor has the option to lower the grade or assign an ‘F’ or ‘WU’ grade.”

G. Disability Accommodation Policy

Students with disabilities who require reasonable accommodations or academic adjustments for this course must contact the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (Room: N769; Telephone: 212-220-8180). BMCC is committed to providing equal access to all programs and curricula to all students.

H. BMCC Policy Statement on Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the presentation of someone else’s ideas, words, or artistic, scientific, or technical work as one’s own creation. Using the idea or work of another is permissible only when the original author is identified. Paraphrasing and summarizing, as well as direct quotations, require citations to the original source. Plagiarism may be intentional or unintentional. Lack of dishonest intent does not necessarily absolve a student of responsibility for plagiarism.

Students who are unsure how and when to provide documentation are advised to consult with their instructors. The library has guides designed to help students to appropriately identify a cited work. The full policy can be found here.

I. Outline of Topics

• To be determined.

J. Office Hours

Contact me to schedule an appointment.

K. Weekly Breakdown

Week 8 | Class 15 | March 24

1. jQuery
• Core
• Selectors
• Attributes
• Traversing
• Manipulation

2. Work on Midterm

Week 8 | Class 14 | March 22

1. DOM
• Introduction
• Nodes
• Node Tree
• Properties & Methods
• Access

2. JavaScript
• Introduction
• How
• Where
• Statements
• Comments
• Variables
• Frameworks
  • jQuery
    • Plugins
      • Easy Accordion
  • Mootools
    • Classes
      • Slideshow 2
  • Prototype
    • script.aculo.us

Week 7 | Class 13 | March 17

1. Work on Midterm

Week 7 | Class 12 | March 15

1. Wireframes

2. Work on Midterm

Week 6 | Class 11 | March 10

1. Midterm Meetings

Week 6 | Class 10 | March 8

1. The WordPress Database
• Backing Up Your Database
• Moving WordPress

2. Working with WordPress Plugins
• Managing Plugins
• Writing a Plugin
  • Plugin API
  • Skeleton Plugin

3. Portfolio Review

Week 5 | Class 9 | March 3

1. Working with WordPress Themes
• Functions
  • wp_list_pages()
  • wp_get_archives()
  • wp_list_categories()
  • wp_list_comments()
• Integrating WordPress with Your Website

2. The WordPress Database
• WP Query
• wpdb

Week 5 | Class 8 | March 1

1. Working with WordPress Themes
• Using Themes
• Theme Development
  • Skeleton Theme by Six Crayons
• Category Templates
• Creating & Modifying Themes

Week 4 | Class 7 | February 24

1. Working with WordPress Themes
• Widgetizing Themes
• Using Widgets

Week 4 | Class 6 | February 22

1. Review PHP

2. WordPress
• Database Description
• Templates
• The Loop
  • The Loop In Action
• Template Tags
  • get_header();
  • have_posts();
  • the_post();
  • the_content();
  • get_sidebar();
  • get_footer();

Week 3 | Class 5 | February 17

1. Review & Get Caught Up

2. PHP
• Variables
• Strings
• Operators
• Conditionals: If…Else, Switch
• Function: rand()
• Arrays
• Looping: While, For

Week 3 | Class 4 | February 15

1. Content Management Systems
• Drupal
• Expression Engine
• Joomla
• Movable Type
• TextPattern
• WordPress

2. Installing WordPress
• WordPress
• Download & Install WordPress
• Basics of WordPress
  • Logging In
• Database Schema

3. Installing phpMyAdmin
• Download & Install phpMyAdmin

Week 2 | Class 4 | February 10

1. Review WordPress

2. An HTML Refresher
• HTML
• XML
• XHTML
• Semantic HTML
• Tags, Attributes, Content, and Elements
• Nesting Tags
• Default Tags
  • The <html> Tag
  • The <head> Tag
  • The <title> Tag
  • The <body> Tag
• Additional Tags
• Validation
• Doctypes

3. A CSS Refresher
• CSS and it’s Syntax
• Class, ID, Group, and Contextual Selectors
• Internal vs. External CSS
• The Box Model, margin, border, padding, content

4. HTML & CSS Files & Web Servers
• Saving HTML & CSS Files
  • Folders / Directories
  • Naming Conventions
  • Extensions
  • Local vs. Remote File Systems
• Web Servers
  • Linux vs. Windows
  • Apache vs. IIS

5. LAMP / WAMP
• Linux
• Apache
• MySQL
• PHP
• WAMP = Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP

6. Installing A Portable WAMP Server
• Server2Go
• Download & Install Server2Go
• Download & Install PHPMyAdmin

7. PHP
• Introduction to PHP
• Syntax
• Function: echo()

Week 2 | Class 3 | February 8

1. Prof. Culkin Covers WordPress

Week 1 | Class 2 | February 3

1. Prof. Culkin Covers WordPress

Week 1 | Class 1 | February 1

1. Introductions

2. Class Structure and Overview

3. Brief History of Computing and the Internet

• Antikythera Mechanism
• Al-Jazari and his Mechanical Automata
• Joseph Marie Jacquard and the Jacquard Loom
• Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, the Analytical Engine
• Alan Turing, Bletchley Park and the Enigma Machine
• Electronic Memory and the Microcontroller
• Early Personal Computers
• Vannevar Bush, As We May Think, and Hypertext
• Douglas Engelbart and the Computer Mouse
• Internet History
• ARPANET
• Telnet and CompuServe
• TCP/IP
• NIC and DNS
• HTTP
• Email and WWW
• Tim Berners-Lee and the first Web Server
• Marc Andreessen, Eric Bina, and the Mosaic Web Browser

4. Assignment A: Email me at prof@fatbits.net. Please include the course number (MMP460) and your full name in the subject. Feel free to include links to your work in the body.

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