Philip Likens

WDIM Instructor

Information

• Office: Room #220
• 214.693.7098

Schedule: Summer 2010

Activity	Day	Time	Location
Concepts in Motion Design	Monday	08:00-12:00	320
Intro to Server Side Languages	Monday	13:00-17:00	320
Office Hours	Wednesday	08:00-10:00	220/307/LRC
CodeLab	Wednesday	10:00-12:00	307
Intermediate Server Side Languages	Wednesday	13:00-17:00	320
Advanced Server Side Languages	Wednesday	18:00-22:00	320

Important Documents

Art Institute Grading Criteria - Grading_Criteria.pdf
Default Weekly Grading Rubric - Weekly_Rubric.pdf

Hosting / Domains

I suggest registering your domain names through http://GoDaddy.com.

For hosting I would recommend using one of the following:

• http://BlueHost.com
• http://DreamHost.com
• http://HostGator.com (I use them myself though some students have had problems with them)

Helpful Sites

• Color Schemes: http://colorschemedesigner.com
• Learning About the World: http://ted.com/
• Learning About Business: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/
• Learning JavaScript: http://deptof.com/javascript/
• Learning MySQL: http://mysql.com
• Learning PHP: http://php.net
• Validating XHTML and CSS: http://validator.w3.org/unicorn/
• Learning Web Technologies: http://w3schools.com

Important Media

• Simply JavaScript: The Three Layers of the Web By Kevin Yank
• Usability Terms by Human Factors International
• The Importance of Rest for Developers By David Heinemeier Hansson
• Under-do Your Competition by David Heinemeier Hansson
• Can you train yourself to be more creative? by Jeff Hawkins
• Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications by Jesse James Garrett

Get Involved In

• D-Flex: http://www.d-flex.org/
• Dallas Society of Visual Communication: http://dsvc.org
• Dallas Tech Happy Hour: http://dallastechhappyhour.com
• Natural User Interface Group: http://nuigroup.com
• Professional Social Networking: http://linkedin.com
• Tweeting: http://twitter.com

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