ITPindia » CSS http://itp.nyu.edu/~ia303/thunk India’s ITP blog Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:20:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 PHP 101 http://itp.nyu.edu/~ia303/thunk/2009/01/27/php-101/ http://itp.nyu.edu/~ia303/thunk/2009/01/27/php-101/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:41:43 +0000 India http://itp.nyu.edu/~ia303/thunk/?p=415 Hello World

My homework for the first week of Dynamic Web Development is over here: Hello, World. I reused the CSS from CommLab week 1 and made absolutely no modifications to the “hello, world” PHP from the instructions. So, sue me. I think the point was to make sure we all know how to upload files and have got our permissions set up correctly.

One thing I did not copy from the instructions we got in class was the fucked-up sample HTML, which was something like this:

<html>
<head>
<title><?=$pageTitle?></title>
</head>
<body>
<b>One paragraph</b>
<p>
Another paragraph
<p>
Third paragraph
</body>
</html>

What is with ITP teachers and lazy-ass HTML? Spencer did the same thing, using <p> tags to “put a little space between” stuff. Guys. Guys. Guys. Ever heard the term well-formed? Ever heard the term semantic? HTML is so fucking not difficult; why not just do it correctly instead of teaching a roomful of people shitty habits?

Photo: “Hello World” by Mark Emery Photography; some rights reserved.

]]> http://itp.nyu.edu/~ia303/thunk/2009/01/27/php-101/feed/ 0 CommLab homework, week 1 http://itp.nyu.edu/~ia303/thunk/2008/09/15/commlab-homework-week-1/ http://itp.nyu.edu/~ia303/thunk/2008/09/15/commlab-homework-week-1/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:52:55 +0000 India http://itp.nyu.edu/blogs/ia303/2008/09/15/commlab-homework-week-1/ Waterfall under the bridge

This week’s homework:

  • Create two simple web pages using styles, and FTP them into your ITP account.
  • Visit the Waterfalls (www.nycwaterfalls.org), or check out David Byrne’s “Playing the Building.” Post response on your site.
  • Read Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy, Chapters 1–4 (The Orality of Language, The modern Discovery of Primary Oral Cultures, Some Psychodynamics of Orality, Writing Restructures Consciousness), and post response to Ong on your site. Be prepared to discuss in class.
  • Email [Spencer] the URL by Saturday.

Well, my Internet connection was really dodgy this weekend, so the last item was out of the question, but the rest is here:

Ong
Waterfalls
Learning HTML

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