This document describes the objectives of the three class assignments. If you wish have an alternative project considered, you should include a statement of how the alternative meets the stated objectives. The objectives should be considered in developing any solution as submissions that use alternative means to meet the presentation requirements but do not demonstrate the specified skills will not receive full credit.
Students will demonstrate the ability to code a web page using a variety of XHTML tags and to incorporate a variety of style elements into the page using Cascading Style Sheets. All usage should be standard compliant.
Students will demonstrate the ability to write JavaScript code to respond to user events on a web page and to directly manipulate the content of the web page rendering through the JavaScript XHTML DOM interface.
Students will demonstrate the ability to use an Application Programming Interface (API) to produce a mashup on a web page. The representation of the content and some user interactions are to be controled by JavaScript code using API calls.