Spring 2001
Assignment 13
Due: Friday, March 16
Reading
Continue reading Chapter 8: "JavaScript/JScript: Introduction to Scripting" in Deitel, Deitel & Nieto, Internet & World Wide Web: How to Program.
Read Chapter 6 "Retailing the Revolution"
in Freiberger and Swaine, Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal
Computer.
Programming
Experiment with some of the JavaScript programs discussed in Lecture 13 or Chapter 8 of Deitel, Deitel & Nieto. Use a text editor to create your own versions of these programs and modify them to vary the output.
Find some interesting web pages that
feature dynamic activity and examine the source file to see if JavaScript
is being used to produce the results you are seeing. Can you make begin
to make sense of any of the JavaScript commands?
Longer Term Creative Project
Put together all the HTML features we have studied to produce your personal home page for your web site. Complete this project by Friday, March 23.