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Course Description

In this course you will learn how to apply concepts from interaction design and human computer interaction in order to design and build an interactive, professional looking website. You will learn how to make your web page designs adapt to different screen sizes using responsive grid layouts. You will learn how to add vigation and other design elements, and you will learn how to separate data and display using JavaScript objects and templates. At the end of the course, you will be able to:1. Explain why users need to know where they are, where they can go and what is on a web page2. Create wireframe mockups of web pages 3. Identify the key functional elements of web pages4. Use Bootstrap components to realise page designs5. Use JavaScript data structures such as arrays and objects to define the data used in a web page6. Use the Handlebars template library to convert data to HTML 7. Add interactivity to templates using JavaScript event listenersIn this course, you will complete:1 website design assignment taking ~1 hour to complete1 programming assignment taking ~1 hour to complete4 quizzes, each taking ~20 minutes to completemultiple practice quizzes, each taking ~5 minutes to completeParticipation in or completion of this online course will not confer academic credit for University of London programmes.

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Instructor Details

Dr Matthew Yee-King

Dr Matthew Yee-King is a Lecturer in Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is an expert in creative digital signal processing and computer music and has worked with some of the leading names in the UK experimental music scene. He teaches on the BSc Creative Computing topics such as audio signal processing and synthesis, programming in Processing and audio development for the Android platform.

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By Roy H on 5-Feb-19

This suffers the same problem as course 1 where the practical assignments are little more than making minor changes to a fully written page or copy/pasting code supplied to you. The final assignment is the only "real" practical assignment, particularly if you try the optional challenge. The lack of opportunity to really put what is learnt into practice makes it hard for the lessons to stick. I also want to add that the method that they use to grade assignments makes cheating very easy. They ask you to submit a screenshot to show that you completed the assignment and I have seen peers who simply edited the sample picture to remove the "example" watermark. Not only that, but a big advantage of peer assessment is getting to see how other people code and learning from that. For example, there is an optional challenge in the final assignment that requires more than simple copy/pasting and it would have been great to see how others solved it. I honestly have no idea why they have you grade easily manipulated screenshots instead of html files.

By Fabio V on 21-Jan-16

I gave four stars for the previews course of the specialization but I have to tell that week 2 and 3 of this course are outstanding. Teachers are really putting students in the right direction.

By Larynx K on 21-Nov-15

I've learned a lot of things in this course and I strongly recommend you to enroll this wonderful course immediately. In this course, you can learn bootstrap, Handlebars, Javascript and jQuery.

By Danilo C on 12-Jul-18

Assignments were too easy. I wish they would give us an actual chance to practice the taught material. Also, I feel like they should better prioritize areas that are harder to understand. Spend less time in human-computer interaction and more in stuff like events, templates, etc.In any case, the course was overall fantastic. Loved Dr. Yee-King! Cheers!

By Carlos L on 6-Apr-19

Non of the courses teaches you how to host your meteor app nor the limitations of it, I think this is very important and it's not mentioned anywhere!

By Paulina on 20-Aug-18

I like the course but I have an impression that you need to do a lot of self -study. There are a lot of things that are not explained well and it is quite hard to follow the course. I really like the format and the teachers but I think they forgot we are just beginners.

By Moiss P on 29-May-18

The content of the course is good in general specially on the first week but the homeworks aren't challenging at all (the last homework was a bit challenging but not enough). I think is important to put in practice the knowledge acquired not by adding quizzes but putting code challenges (the quizzes are long and the homeworks are too easy). I give also 3 stars because the course is outdated, I would suggest (if they update the course) to change Handlebars framework for Angular, React or Vue. Still, I think if you don't know how to separate content from structure this is a good course to start knowing how to do it.

By Islam M A on 20-Mar-16

Thanks Dr Matthew you're the bestMr Marco I didn't understand anything from you and I stopped the course because I dropped this module because of you. I'm sorry

By Mohsin A S on 24-Nov-18

This course was really excellent

By Ahmed M G on 14-Dec-18

Awesome course

By Elizabeth R on 20-Feb-19

Loved this one even more than the first

By Lukman E A on 26-Mar-19

Really help me to improve my skill about responsive website. Material in this course is well-prepared and easy to follow step by step.