Peer Assessment Task 1 Opens!

Peer assessment task 1 is open from 10am this coming Monday morning. Details and the login link are online at:

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~cema/courses/FIT3084/peerAssessLogin.html

You have until this coming Friday to complete this compulsory hurdle requirement for the unit. The task needs to be completed individually. It is not a group exercise!

Dilbert on web design

An amusing comic of relevance to the current course...
http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-04-01/?Page=1

Provided by one of your fellow students. Thanks!

label XHTML label

A useful reference for the XHTML label tag: http://xhtml.com/en/xhtml/reference/label/

JavaScript notes

I have updated the JavaScript I and II lecture notes for this week with some new material. There is new information on:

• Type conversion
• String methods
• The Math object
• Commenting out JavaScript code
• Arrays
• Regular Expressions

FIT3084 group registration is now open

You can now register your assignment groups of four students online. The deadline for registration is 5pm, 1st April (but the sooner you do this, the sooner you can check that everything is in order).

After registering, please check to see that your group data has been stored correctly. If there are any problems, please email the lecturer.

The relevant URLs are: Register Groups & Check Groups

Xbox Natal

Here is some info. provided by a student of FIT3084 concerning a new interface for the XBox.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2qlHoxPioM&feature=fvst
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2r9cKjNQe4&feature=fvst

And the virtual character that they've created:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HluWsMlfj68

Course commencement

Welcome to the course! Please find three fellow students to form a group of four students for the practical work as soon as you get a chance. Steps to follow:

1. Host student gathers group members' student IDs and authcate usernames (phone numbers would be helpful too but aren't needed to register)
2. Host student follows ITS instructions with the help of the group, to set up group splash page
3. Host student registers group online to retrieve official group name (Registration opens after unit enrollments are finalised a few weeks into semester — announcment made here)
4. Host student edits splash page, filling in the official group name and checking that the email link works: one click emails all group members
5. Group members chip in to buy host student a beer (or coffee)