Responsive Website Tutorial and Examples

About this course: In this course, we will show you exciting examples of collaborative, interactive web applications that use various types of media including sound, images and big data. We will show you how to build sites that provide precisely this functionality, using Meteor. We will also provide fully working example application code that you can use for your own commercial web projects. The course also provides a range of advice and suggestions about how to develop bespoke web applications which match the requirements of clients, where clients are people who commission the product or people who use the product. We will take you through the development of the following applications: 1. A portfolio website with collaborative blogging functionality. 2. An interactive, realtime, multi user music remixing system. 3. An interactive, online graffiti wall where users can collaborate to create graphics. 4. An interactive data visualisation platform for exploring and plotting big data in exciting ways. At the end of this course, you will be able to: • Implement animated data visualisations and graphics using advanced user interface libraries such as vis.js • Work with external data sources • Create multi user, realtime, collaborative environments • Use media APIs such as the Web Audio API Participation in or completion of this online course will not confer academic credit for University of London programmes

Created by:  University of London, Goldsmiths, University of London

• Taught by:  Dr Matthew Yee-King, Lecturer

  Computing Department, Goldsmiths, University of London

• Taught by:  Dr Mick Grierson, Reader

  Computing Department, Goldsmiths, University of London

Basic Info Course 5 of 6 in the Responsive Website Development and Design Specialization Commitment 4 weeks of study, 1-2 hours/week Language English How To Pass Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. User Ratings 4.2 stars Average User Rating 4.2See what learners said Coursework

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Syllabus


WEEK 1


Responsive Website Tutorials and Examples outline: Course overview



1 video, 2 readings, 1 practice quiz expand

1. Reading: Course outline
2. Video: Course overview
3. Reading: Grading and assessment information
4. Practice Quiz: Prerequisite quiz

Creating a Portfolio Website with a Blog



Welcome to the first module of 'Responsive Website Tutorial and Examples!'. In this session we will be exploring a real-world web development task based on a common brief that web developers have to respond to every day – producing a portfolio website with both static and dynamic content features. I hope you enjoy the module! -Mick


6 videos, 5 readings, 5 practice quizzes expand

1. Video: Introduction
2. Practice Quiz: Introduction
3. Reading: Source code
4. Reading: Slides for this module
5. Video: Recap
6. Practice Quiz: Recap
7. Reading: Getting started: learning outcomes
8. Video: Getting started
9. Practice Quiz: Getting started
10. Reading: Adding a page: learning outcomes
11. Video: Adding a page
12. Practice Quiz: Adding a page
13. Reading: Administrating the blog and making it responsive: learning outcomes
14. Video: Administrating the blog and making it responsive
15. Practice Quiz: Administration
16. Video: Creating A Portfolio Website with Blog summary

Graded: Creating A Portfolio Website with Blog summary quiz
Graded: Customise the portfolio site

WEEK 2


Collaborative Apps 1 : Music Machine



Welcome to the second module of 'Responsive Website Tutorial and Examples!'. Meteor is great at making collaboration simple. You can make collaborative sites in a day or so that work across many devices including mobile. By the end of this session you will understand how to structure and build collaborative, real-time applications, how to integrate the web audio API, and how to specifically set and get variables stored in the database using basic interface elements.


7 videos, 7 readings, 5 practice quizzes expand

1. Video: Module introduction
2. Video: Introduction: Music Machine
3. Practice Quiz: Introduction
4. Reading: Source code
5. Reading: Slides for this module
6. Reading: Project structure: learning outcomes
7. Video: Project structure
8. Practice Quiz: Project structure
9. Reading: Adding sound: learning outcomes
10. Video: Adding sound
11. Practice Quiz: Adding sound
12. Reading: Adding interaction : learning outcomes
13. Video: Adding interaction
14. Practice Quiz: Adding interaction
15. Reading: Making it collaborative: learning outcomes
16. Reading: URL in lecture video
17. Video: Collaboration
18. Practice Quiz: Making it collaborative
19. Video: Collaborative Apps 1 : Music Machine 2015 summary

Graded: Collaborative Apps 1 : Music Machine 2015 summary quiz
Graded: Customise the music machine

WEEK 3


Collaborative Apps 2 : Drawing Machine



Welcome to the third module of 'Responsive Website Tutorial and Examples!'.Meteor allows us to make creative, collaborative apps that work in real-time. Both the Client and the Server can insert information into a Mongo collection. Ordinary web users can do this interactively, without having to program the database manually. In this session we will look at this approach through the lens of collaborative drawing. You will learn how to create a canvas using d3.js, change attributes of the canvas, create client code for inserting data into the database and how to render database entries as a drawing.


7 videos, 6 readings, 5 practice quizzes expand

1. Video: Module introduction
2. Video: Drawing machine
3. Practice Quiz: Drawing machine introduction
4. Reading: Source code
5. Reading: Slides for this module
6. Reading: Drawing machine example: learning outcomes
7. Video: Drawing machine: worked example
8. Practice Quiz: Drawing machine- worked example
9. Reading: Creating the application: learning outcomes
10. Video: Creating the application
11. Practice Quiz: Creating the application
12. Reading: Creating and serving data: learning outcomes
13. Video: Creating and serving data
14. Practice Quiz: Creating and serving data
15. Reading: Review: learning outcomes
16. Video: Review
17. Practice Quiz: Review
18. Video: Collaborative Apps 2 : Drawing Machine summary

Graded: Collaborative Apps 2 : Drawing Machine summary quiz
Graded: Customise the drawing machine

WEEK 4


Creating a Data Visualisation Application
Welcome to the final module of 'Responsive Website Tutorial and Examples!'.In this session we will be looking at how to use data from external sources to create interactive visualisations for the purposes of creating an interactive data visualisation web app.


7 videos, 6 readings, 5 practice quizzes expand

1. Video: Recap of previous modules
2. Video: Module introduction
3. Practice Quiz: Introduction
4. Reading: Source code
5. Reading: Slides for this module
6. Reading: Setting up the interface: learning outcomes
7. Video: Setting up the interface
8. Practice Quiz: Setting up the interface
9. Reading: Getting data: learning outcomes
10. Video: Getting data
11. Practice Quiz: Getting data
12. Reading: Rendering data on the page: learning outcomes
13. Video: Rendering data on the page
14. Practice Quiz: Rendering data on the page
15. Reading: Review: learning outcomes
16. Video: Review
17. Practice Quiz: Review
18. Video: Creating a Data Visualisation Application summary

Graded: Creating a Data Visualisation Application summary quiz
Graded: Customise the data visualisation