Gooey: Soft & Sticky (DG217)
Contents
Assignment description
See GooeySoftAndSticky.
Approach
- learning by doing (together)
- learning from each other
- book, book, and yet another book.
Groups
Schedule
Location:
- Tu April 19, HG4.01
- Tu April 26, HG 4.01
- Tu May 3, HG 3.02
- Tu May 10, HG 2.84
- Tu May 17, HG 2.84
- Tu May 24, HG 4.01
Week 1
- Lecture
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- Introduction to GUI
- Homework
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- Form 5 teams. Every team starts reading a book on GUI. You may share the chapters inside your team. In the following 3 meetings, each team presents 3 "golden tips" learned from the book, and each tip should come with 2 examples that are not from the book.
- Checkout the following websites. If you can not finish reading these websites this week, continue in the following weeks.
http://www.guidebookgallery.org/ GUI screenshots of all kinds of OS.
For a quick overview of the basics and history of GUI, you may want to go through this presentation: GooeySoftAndSticky/GooeyHistory.pdf.
- During the following weeks, you are supposed to learn by yourself how to theme Wordpress for making showcases. Each team shall try to work together to design one example showcase for the final presentation. Follow the instructions in the presentation below to setup the software environment and to get started:
- Online tutorials:
How To Create a WordPress Theme: The Ultimate WordPress Theme Tutorial
PHP Tutorial -- Good to have some basic ideas.
Week 2
- Activity
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- 3 "golden tips" and 6 examples from each team. 15 minutes for each team. (10 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion)
Week 3
- Activity
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- 3 "golden tips" and 6 examples from each team. 15 minutes for each team. (10 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion)
Week 4
- Activity
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- 3 "golden tips" and 6 examples from each team. 15 minutes for each team. (10 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion)
Week 5
- Flexible
Week 6
- Activity
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- Final presentations (results of the team task)
Q&A session
- Feedback session
- Homework
- Individual report (no more than 2-page A4 in 10-point typeface) on
- what has been learned;
- feedback on the assignment: complaints, comments and suggestions
- Do not deliver your report through email. Attach your report to the feedback request.
- Individual report (no more than 2-page A4 in 10-point typeface) on