Course Schedule

Class schedule will be developed during the course of the semester. I will keep the schedule 1-2 weeks in advance of the current class.

Week 1
Date	Assignment due	Activities
Aug 20		Participation Assignment (Canvas)
Aug 22	Read: Basic Web Pages Read: Semantic HTML Read: A Complete Guide to the Table Element	Set up Laragon development environment Participation Assignment (Canvas)

Week 2
Date	Assignment due	Activities
Aug 27	Read: Intimidated By CSS? The Definitive Guide To Make Your Fear Disappear Read: Media Queries in Responsive Design: A Complete Guide (2021) View: Write code faster in VS Code with Emmet shortcuts Tool: Brackets Cheat Sheet – PC Tool: Emmet Cheat Sheet	Optional Lab Day Optional: Right click to save CSS example file into your /exercises folder. Optional: CSS Review (video) Complete Exercise #0. Participation Assignment (Canvas)
Aug 29	Read: Box Sizing Example: Box-sizing Read: CSS Tricks - :nth-child Example: :nth child Reference: flex-direction Example: Pure CSS Hamburger Menu Optional: The Beginner’s Guide to CSS Shorthand	In Person Day Lecture - Responsive Design Techniques Review Begin Exercise #1

Week 3
Date	Assignment due	Activities
Sep 3	Review Digital Imaging & Photoshop Basics lecture Optional: Download boots photo to work along with lecture. View Object Selection Read Web Images – File Types & Use Cases	Optional Lab Day Complete Canvas participation assignment. Finish Exercise #1
Sep 5	Scan: Flexbox Tutorial Scan: CSS Wildcard: Complete Tutorial on Use of Wildcards in CSS	In Person Day Set up publishing accounts Advanced flexbox lecture Exercise #2 - Flexbox video work-along. Discuss organization for calendar project or alternative.

Week 4
Date	Assignment due	Activities
Sep 10	Read: CSS Tricks: text-transform Reference: Character entities	Complete Canvas participation assighment Begin Exercise #3
Sep 12		Work on Exercise #3.

Week 5
Date	Assignment due	Activities
Sep 17		Finish Exercise #3.
Sep 19	Read: The Skinny on CSS Attribute Selectors	View HTML Forms lecture Download forms.html to /exercises and forms-style.css to /css. Begin Exercise #4.

Week 6
Date	Assignment due	Activities
Sep 24	Read: Design Better Forms	Begin Exercise #5.
Sep 26		Finish Exercise #5.

Week 7
Date	Assignment due	Activities
Oct 1	View Grid Lecture Read: Basic Concepts of Grid Layout	Begin Exercise #6.
Oct 3	Read: Introduction to SQL	View MySQL Lecture Begin SQL Exercise.

Week 8
Date	Assignment due	Activities
Oct 8		Finish Exercise #7.
Oct 10		Brief PHP Introduction Work through PHP Basic section of TutorialRepublic PHP Tutorial.

Week 9
Date	Assignment due	Activities
Oct 15		Review PHP Date and Time section of PHP Advanced section of TutorialRepublic PHP Tutorial. Work through selections of PHP & MySQL Database section of TutorialRepublic PHP Tutorial. I will specify the necessary sections in class. Begin Exercise #8. See Canvas for this exercise.
Oct 17		Continue Exercise #8.

Week 10
Date	Assignment due	Activities
Oct 22		Finish Exercise #8.
Oct 24		Exercise #9 in class.

Week 11
Date	Assignment due	Activities
Oct 29	Read AVIF: Meet the Next Level Image File Format	Lab TBA.
Oct 31	Read: Using SVG Tool: SVG Minifier	SVG Lecture and Exercise

Week 12
Date	Assignment due	Activities
Nov 5		Election day. No class today. Please vote!
Nov 7		Ben Sick. Class Canceled.

Week 13
Date	Assignment due	Activities
Nov 12	Reference: Sass Basics	SASS Lecture Install Scout-App or Prepros Work through Sass Tutorial.
Nov 14	Read: Google RankBrain: The Definitive Guide (Ch 1 & 2 only) Read: Open Graph Meta Tags: Everything You Need to Know Reference: The Beginner's Guide to Structured Data for SEO: A Two-Part Series Reference: Google’s 200 Ranking Factors: The Complete List Reference: Understand how structured data works	Advanced SEO Lecture