eScience Lectures Notes : Lecture Introduction


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COMP1710

 

New Tools for New Media and the Web

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Tools, Design and Management of

Maturing Hypermedia

 

About the Course

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Slide 3 : 3/22 : In this session : COMP1710 - About the Course (intro.en.html)

In this session : COMP1710 - About the Course


Slide 4 : 4/22 : Lecturer and the team (lecturer.en.html)

Course co-ordinator : Pascal Vuylsteker

E-mail : pvk at vuylsteker point net

Diploma Background :

  • Physicist Engineer

  • Masters in Computer Graphics (DEA)

  • A mix of Physics, Computer Graphics, Internet ... and Maths !

Work Background : Internet site manager

You will find on my CV that I have learnt Basic, Fortran, Pascal, Prolog, Java, Shell... that is right, but what I have been really using during the last years was Perl !

MediaPort.net : French Culture WebHosting during the prehistory of internet in France

http://www.ina.fr French Audiovisual (Broadcasting) Institute

http://www.vrarchitect.net Open source tools, links, Panberra : Panorama in Canberra

http://www.ina.fr/Imagina International Conference on Computer Graphics

Other members of the DCS/ANU Team


Slide 5 : 5/22 : Lecture Contents (lecture.en.html)

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)

Some practical knowledge, mainly associated with the Web

Exploration of some tools and CMS

Some small exposure to the other side of the web

 


Slide 6 : 6/22 : What the course is not about: (notAbout.en.html)

What the course is not about:

Not about Learning a particular HTML editor (Dreamweaver, Golive etc ... )

Instead : a simple text editor

 Dreamweaver, only if and after you demonstrated 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 : 7/22 : Life After COMP1710 (nextStep.en.html)

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 New Media

COMP2750 - Java Programming for New Media: S1/2006

Will start easily with Processing.org

Other options :

Art students, especially those coming from ACAT, could be interested in the following courses from the Department of Computer Science, eScience group. Note that those 2 courses have to be taken in the given order. Note eventually the Assumed Knowledge in Maths

Another suitable option could be to begin with course


Slide 8 : 8/22 : Lecture organisation (organisation.en.html)

Lecture Organisation : when & where

2 hours of lectures per weeks for 12 weeks starting in week 1

Every Tuesday from 3 pm to 5 pm.

1 hour of discussion / demo class some weeks

Some Mondays from 3 pm to 4 pm.

2 hours lab per week for 9 weeks starting in week 2

Wednesday 12:00 14:00 Peter Karmel 2.29 (Lab 2)
Thursday 9:00 11:00 Copland G27
Thursday 11:00 13:00 Copland G27
Thursday 14:00 16:00 Peter Karmel 2.28 (Lab 1)
Friday 9:00 11:00 BPB Annex NITA Lab
Friday at 11:00 - 13:00 in Karmel 1 (2.28)

Use STREAMS to register : https://cs.anu.edu.au/streams/

Places to meet

Lectures (every Tuesday) will take place in the CHEM T1 (Building 34)

Discussion meetings (some Mondays) PHYS T (DNF Dunbar Physics Lecture Theatre

 


Slide 9 : 9/22 : Where : Places to meet (where.en.html)

Where : Places to meet

ANU Map


Slide 10 : 10/22 : Students Background (background.en.html)

Students Background

From Prerequisites to Assumed Knowledge

the meaning remains the same : what you should know if you want to understand important parts of the course, and have a chance to get a high mark in the exam and in the assignments.

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU TAKE THIS COURSE?

You have already surfed the web

You 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

Text Editors Word Processors

HyperEdit
SubEthaEdit
BBEdit
BBEdit Lite
Jedit
SimpleText
TextEdit
NotePad
vi
emacs

AppleWorks
ClarisWorks
OpenOffice
Microsoft Word
Nisus Writer
WordPerfect
Mellel

N.B : Other tools you may have to use to do your Labs / Assignments

 


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Students

Background :    Art, Engineering, Mathematics, Geology etc ...

Main way to contact you : uXXXXXXX@anu.edu.au

Note to InfTech students :

COMP2410/COMP6340 Networked Information Systems 2006 (Instead of COMP3340)
COMP1710 will not replace COMP1100 nor COMP2410

Part of the core of the Bachelor of Arts in New Media and part of the IT for New Media major (can be taken by InfTech students as an out of Faculty major)

This course has 82 enrolled students (20/02/06)

Withdraw time : 31 March 2006.

But don't leave it to the last minute

A student may withdraw without incurring financial penalties up to and including the census date which is 31 March 2006.
See The Student Enrolment and Administrative Procedures (SEAP) for more details on that.


Slide 12 : 12/22 : Assessment (evaluation.en.html)

Assessment : 25 + 35 + 40

Assessment is based on 9 laboratories, one assignment and one theoretical exam.

9 Marked Labs (first 1 mark + 3 marks per lab) : 25 marks

Attendance is not required, submission is !

1 Group (of 2) project : Web site to develop : 35 marks

1 Theoretical exam in June : 40 marks

Can bring 1 sheet A4

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 : 13/22 : Final Mark : Not just the sum (finalMark.en.html)

Assessment : 25 + 35 + 40

Final Mark : the sum of marks, but need to pass both practical and exam components

Need to submit everything (or else DA or NCN)

Note about Mentoring : Your mentor is there to help you, and to provide some favourable weight to your excuses

In case your cat got crushed over by a car for the 4th time this semester :-)

To Pass, you have the get a minimum mark in each part

Supplementary Exams

The student must have obtained a final mark in the range [45,50).

Access to your marks

Streams : https://cs.anu.edu.au/streams/


Slide 14 : 14/22 : Labs (exercises.en.html)

Laboratories (25)

Not optional :

Building blocks to do the Assignment.

Compulsory (marked)

You need not attend the lab but you have to submit your work at the latest ...

Submission deadline : 23:55 on the Sunday of the week the lab was set

Late submission penalty : mark = 0

Submitted by mail (first labs) or by scp (later ones)

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"

Registration into Streams : https://cs.anu.edu.au/streams/

Free Access to the lab, please fill in the yellow form

This week's exercise : Use of the labs, MacOSX, email, and text editor

Following weeks


Slide 15 : 15/22 : Student Project (projet.en.html)

The practical assignment (35)

Group of Two

With short individual reports on the work done, and possible interview in case of doubt

A Group of two is not half of a group of four ... (Be careful to plagiarism again)

Or individual if explicitly requested

A web site with:

The subject : One ANU Building per group OR

an "interesting and very specific subject of your choice"

See an example of Marking Scheme from S2 2004 to be compared to the Description of the assignment for that year

 


Slide 16 : 16/22 : Readings (reading.en.html)

Readings

Not optional

This week's reading :

 


Slide 17 : 17/22 : Books (books.en.html)

Books

Availables in Hancock Library and Co-Op Bookshop

2 Official lecture textbooks

Other books

See "Unusually ..." online ...

... when you are within the ANU : http://safari.informit.com/0735712069

How did I find it ? http://books.google.com/

 


Slide 18 : 18/22 : Workload (workload.en.html)

Workload

University policy about student workload :

10-12 hours a week

lecture (3) + lab (1+2+1) + read (1) + assignments (2)

Memorization technique

After the lecture :

 


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Links

Some links for each part of the lectures

Contextual links

http://www.vrarchitect.net/links/

Main links

The part associated with COMP1710

http://www.vrarchitect.net/links/top_internettechnics.en.html

Design for New Media by Lon Barfield : A web resource to accompany the book

http://idhub.co.uk/books/dfnm/got/index.shtml

Addison Wesley's Web Wizard Series

http://wps.aw.com/aw_webwizard/

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

http://www.w3c.org/

"Top Ten Mistakes" Revisited (Alertbox May 1999)

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990502.html

Top-10 New Mistakes of Web Design (Alertbox May 1999)

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990530.html

WebReference.com - The Webmaster's Reference Library - Web Authoring Tips & Tutorials for Developers

http://www.webreference.com/


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.

 

 


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Web issues

Handouts

eScience : http://escience.anu.edu.au/lecture/comp1710/index.en.html

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 Friday 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 : Cascading Style Sheets

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

From PNG to SVG : Scalable Vector Graphics

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 Flash and SVG is that the former is proprietary and the latter is public.

Adobe : http://www.adobe.com/svg/

has released a good plug-in for SVG.

MathML : Mathematics on the web

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 techexplorer : http://www-4.ibm.com/software/network/techexplorer/

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


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Questions, Feedback, Availability

2 hours a week

During the lecture

At the end of the lecture

For the tricky ones

Then I would be able to postpone the answer to the next discussion class or next lecture :-)

This year, Not really available after the main lecture

I am afraid I have to catch the only bus that will bring me home after the Tuesday lecture ...

Best time is during or after the discussion meeting on a Monday

For individual question

At any time, by mail : pascal.vuylsteker@anu.edu.au but I may wait until the next lecture or discussion meeting

By appointment

Whenever you want But I may then not be in my office or available
   

Questions ??


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