CIS 115 - Interactive Web Programming

CIS 115

Interactive Web Programming

Assignments

Read and be prepared to discuss:
- Tubes Chapter 5: Cities of Light
Topic Research Project! - Due 3/17 10:00 PM
Blog 4: The Filter Bubble - Due 3/13 10:00 PM

Blog 4: The Filter Bubble

The Filter Bubble (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble) is a phenomenon on the internet where personalized algorithms present users only with information or opinions that match her or his own thoughts. Because of this, internet users can become isolated in their own little worlds, where everything they see and hear agrees with an reinforces their own ideals and belief. For this blog post, we want you to challenge yourself a bit to see exactly what others are seeing. Here's what we'd like you to do:

Find someone (a friend, family member, roommate, fellow student, etc.) who has different thoughts and opinions than your own. It doesn't have to be purely politically based; they may like different games, movies, websites, books as well.
Using their personal computer (with their permission and while they are present), browse the web for a little bit. Do a few searches on Google or Amazon, check out the recommended videos on Youtube or Netflix, see what ads are appearing on different sites, etc. If you do this on a shared computer or lab computer, have them log in to a few sites and search around for a bit like they normally would before handing it over to you.
Then, do the same steps on your own machine or while logged in to your own accounts, and record the differences.
Bonus - Use private browsing or incognito mode and repeat those steps again. Is it different?

Write about your experiences and what you find. Make sure you reference back to the textbooks and other websites to help you explain why this is happening.

Create your own Website!

Create a webpage that has:

2 pages: index & about
4 CSS directives
Various HTML5 elements
Valid HTML5 - http://validator.w3.org
JavaScript Tic Tac Toe Game
Project 5 - Due 10/18

http://www.w3schools.com/html

Core Web 2.0 Technologies

DOM
Javascript
AJAX
JSON

Document Object Model (DOM)

Image Source: Wikipedia

Document Object Model (DOM)

Image Source: Wikipedia

HTML - tictactoe.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Tic Tac Toe</title>
    <link href="fancy.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"/>
  </head>
  <body>
      <h1>Play TicTacToe</h1>
      <!-- table goes here -->
  </body>
</html>

Table - tictactoe.html

<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td></td>
      <td></td>
      <td></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td></td>
      <td></td>
      <td></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td></td>
      <td></td>
      <td></td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

Styles - fancy.css

td {
  border: 5px solid black;
  width: 100px;
  height: 100px;
  font-size: 80px;
  text-align: center;
  font-family: sans;
}

Div - tictactoe.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Tic Tac Toe</title>
    <link href="fancy.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"/>
  </head>
  <body>
      <h1>Play TicTacToe</h1>

      <div id="turn">x's Turn</div>

      <table>
          <!-- rest of table here -->
      <table>
  </body>
</html>

Styles - fancy.css

td {
  border: 5px solid black;
  width: 100px;
  height: 100px;
  font-size: 80px;
  text-align: center;
  font-family: sans;
}

#turn {
  font-weight: bold;
  text-transform: capitalize;
  text-align: center;
  font-size: 16pt;
  background-color: #777777;
  width: 340px;
}

Borders - fancy.css


td:nth-child(1) {
  border-left: none;
}

td:nth-child(3) {
  border-right: none;
}

tr:nth-child(1) > td {
  border-top: none;
}

tr:nth-child(3) > td {
  border-bottom: none;
}

Brendan Eich

Image Source: Wikipedia

JavaScript (1995)

Originally called "LiveScript"
Used to manipulate the DOM after the page has loaded
Makes the web page much more interactive for the user
Unrelated to the Java programming language

JQuery (1995)

Cross-Platform JavaScript Library
Much easier to use than raw JavaScript
Designed to aid in manipulating the DOM
Has many plugins and libraries available

Script - tictactoe.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Tic Tac Toe</title>
    <link href="fancy.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"/>
  </head>
  <body>
      <h1>Play TicTacToe</h1>

      <div id="turn">x's Turn</div>

      <table>
        <!-- rest of table here -->
      </table>

      <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.1.1.js"></script>
      <script src="script.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

  </body>
</html>

Code - script.js

var turn = "x";

$('td').on('click', function(){
  var $square = $(this);

  if($square.text() == ""){
    $square.text(turn);

    if(turn == "x"){
      turn = "o";
    }else{
      turn = "x";
    }

    $('#turn').text(turn + "'s turn");

  }
});

AJAX (2005)

Asynchronous Javascript and XML
Allows scripts on a webpage to send and receive data in the background without reloading the page
XML not required; may use JSON instead

Extensible Markup Language (XML)

<person>
   <firstName>John</firstName>
   <lastName>Smith</lastName>
   <age>25</age>
   <address>
      <city>New York</city>
      <postalCode>10021</postalCode>
      <state>NY</state>
      <streetAddress>21 2nd Street</streetAddress>
   </address>
   <phoneNumbers>
      <element>
         <number>212 555-1234</number>
         <type>home</type>
      </element>
      <element>
         <number>646 555-4567</number>
         <type>fax</type>
      </element>
   </phoneNumbers>

JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

{
    "firstName": "John",
    "lastName": "Smith",
    "age": 25,
    "address": {
        "streetAddress": "21 2nd Street",
        "city": "New York",
        "state": "NY",
        "postalCode": 10021
    },
    "phoneNumbers": [
        {
            "type": "home",
            "number": "212 555-1234"
        },
        {
            "type": "fax",
            "number": "646 555-4567"
        }
    ]
}

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