Interactive web

During this trimester Design & Technique will build upon the knowledge and practice you have gained of building webpages with HTML and CSS and will extend it further. It will give you the possibility to turn the web browser into an interactive space, where not only you will create pages that respond to the users' action, but also other services which can provide dynamic content to your webpage (APIs).

This will be your introduction to programming - to building little bits of software that do things! Unlike HTML and CSS that mainly describe that content, structure and appearance of your web pages. Programming a webpage can it make do insane things such as games, or a VJ platform, or drawing canvas, visualizations, and much much more. And to that we'll use Javascript - a computer language for web browsers. Because we are starting, we'll keep it simple, so we first fell comfortable with the basics.

In conjunction with learning how to program webpages we will reflect upon the notion of the interface. What is a interface?. Most immediate image is most likely going to be a screen, but although a screen is a interface - between what goes on side a computer and our sensory organs of vision - an interface can most simple be described as the connection between one world and another. Like the screen, keyboard and mouse are interfaces between humans and computers. So is our skin and other sensory organs. They are interfaces between our bodies and the exterior world. Our skin not only informs us about the temperature and texture of things, but also reacts to external changes in temperature, by shivering or sweating. (MORE ON INTERFACE)

Subjects

• Javascript x2 sessions
• jQuery & DOM manipulations x2 sessions
• Rest API x1 session