BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
CHum 310
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Date | Topic/Reading | Assignment Given | Date DUE |
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January 5 |
Course Overview | In-class exercise: Take digital photo of self and copy to your folder on server Next time: Quiz on Revolution Concepts |
January 5 |
02 |
7 |
Review as Needed: Programming Concepts: Understanding control structures (See also CHum 210 web site for overview of control structures in Revolution.) |
In class activity: Reviewing Programming Structures | January 12 |
03 |
12 |
Principles of
Instructional Design See also Lecture stack "InstrDes Stack" in CHum 310/Lecture Stacks folder |
Exploring User Interface Conventions Group Project Assignment |
January 14 April 14 |
04 |
14 |
Principles
of Interface Design See also Lecture stack "Interface Des Stack" Interface Design: Web and Print References Pointers on fonts and typography |
January 21 | |
19 |
Martin Luther King Holiday: No class | |||
05 |
21 |
Efficient
Design in User Interactions--An example |
January 26 |
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06 |
26 |
Digital images Colors in Revolution In-class Activity Image editing: Intro to Photoshop |
Group Project Proposal due Next time: Quiz on Digital Graphics, Graphics Formats |
January 28 |
07 |
28 |
Introduction to Photoshop, cont. | Photoshop Exercise 2 | February 2 |
08 |
February 2 |
Using External
Files In-class activity: Exploring the open and close commands |
February 4 |
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09 |
4 |
Revolution
and the Internet |
Simple Text Processor due |
February 9 |
10 |
9 |
Revolution and the Internet, cont. Reading: Beyond the Browser |
Group Project Detailed Plan due |
February 11 |
11 |
11 |
Webware Exercise due Next time: Quiz on Audio Formats |
February 17 |
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16 |
Presidents Day Holiday: No class |
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12 |
17 |
Audio
Recording Recording Studio Orientation |
Functions Exercise due |
February 18 February 18 |
13 |
18 |
Audio Playback and Recording in Revolution More about Audio Playback and Recording Libraries: Extending Revolution's capabilities |
Audio Recording Assignment due |
February 23 April 14 |
14 |
23 |
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Audio Playback
and Recording Stack due
Next time: Quiz on Video Formats |
February 25 |
15 |
25 |
Rev and Online Databases: Introduction to Online Databases | ||
16 |
March 2 |
Rev and Online Databases, cont. |
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17 |
4 |
In-Class Exercise: testGeometry.rev Stack In-Class Exercise: Debugging Work.rev Stack (Templates folder) |
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18 |
9 |
Motion
and Animation Scripting Everything See commands handout and stack "Scripting Colors Lecture" |
Using QT Movies in Revolution due |
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19 |
11 |
Overview
of QuickTime Creating Digital Video |
Timing Assignment due |
March 16 |
20 |
16 |
Using QuickTime Movies in Revolution
Stacks See stack QTPlayerLecture.rev |
Video Digitizing Assignment due |
March 18 |
21 |
18 |
TBA/Group project work | Group Project - "alpha" version due | |
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23 |
March 30 |
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23 |
25 |
The
End Game: Preparing Projects for Distribution Creating Standalone Applications |
Please read What is Unicode? at http://www.unicode.org (Quiz next time!) |
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24 |
30 |
Group Project User Evaluation due |
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25 |
April 1 | Unicode and Revolution |
April 6 |
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26 |
6 |
Menus | Unicode Stack assignment due |
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27 |
8 |
Printing
Final Exam Review notes |
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28 |
13 |
(Last day of class) Final project presentation |
Group Project Final version due |
Techniques Stack Due Tuesday, April 14th |
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17 |
Final Examination 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. |
Closed-book portion of final exam. |
Practical (open-book) portion of final exam will be available starting the first day of finals and will be due by 5:00 p.m. the last day of finals. |