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 7 |
Course Overview | In-class exercise: Digital photos of class members: Identify and copy to your folders Next time: Quiz on Revolution Concepts |
January 7 |
02 |
9 |
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 14 |
03 |
14 |
Principles of
Instructional Design See also Lecture stack "InstrDes Stack" in CHum 310/Lecture Stacks folder |
Exploring User Interface Conventions Group Project Assignment |
January 16 April 15 |
04 |
16 |
Principles
of Interface Design See also Lecture stack "Interface Des Stack" Interface Design: Web and Print References Pointers on fonts and typography |
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21 |
Martin Luther King Holiday: No class | |||
05 |
23 |
Efficient
Design in User Interactions--An example |
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06 |
28 |
Digital graphics, Overview of digital media formats Image editing: Intro to Photoshop |
Group Project Proposal due Next time: Quiz on Digital Graphics, Graphics Formats |
January 30 |
07 |
30 |
Introduction to Photoshop, cont. | Photoshop Exercise 2 | February 4 |
08 |
February 4 |
Using External
Files In-class activity: Exploring the open and close commands |
February 6 |
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09 |
6 |
Revolution
and the Internet |
Simple Text Processor due |
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10 |
11 |
Revolution and the Internet, cont.
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Group Project Detailed Plan due |
February 13 |
11 |
13 |
Webware Exercise due Next time: Quiz on Audio Formats |
February 19 |
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18 |
Presidents Day Holiday: No class |
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12 |
19 |
Audio
Recording Recording Studio Orientation |
Functions Exercise due |
February 20 February 20 |
13 |
20 |
Audio Playback and Recording in Revolution More about Audio Playback and Recording Libraries: Extending Revolution's capabilities |
Audio Recording Assignment due |
February 25 April 18 |
14 |
25 |
Time and Timing | Audio Playback
and Recording Stack due
Next time: Quiz on Video Formats |
February 27 |
15 |
27 |
Overview
of QuickTime Creating Digital Video |
Timing Assignment due |
March 3 |
16 |
March 3 |
Using QuickTime Movies in Revolution
Stacks See stack QTPlayerLecture.rev |
Video Digitizing Assignment due |
March 10 |
17 |
5 |
In-Class Exercise: testGeometry.rev Stack In-Class Exercise: Debugging Work.rev Stack (Templates folder) |
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18 |
10 |
Motion
and Animation Scripting Everything See commands handout and stack "Scripting Colors Lecture" |
Using QT Movies in Revolution due |
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19 |
12 |
Rev and Online Databases: Introduction to Online Databases |
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20 |
17 |
Rev and Online Databases, cont. |
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21 |
19 |
TBA/Group project work | ||
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24 |
Group Project - "alpha" version due |
March 31 |
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23 |
26 |
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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31 |
Group Project User Evaluation due |
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April 2 | Unicode and Revolution |
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26 |
7 |
Menus |
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27 |
9 |
Printing
Final Exam Review notes |
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28 |
14 |
(Last day of class) Final project presentation |
Group Project Final version due |
Techniques Stack Due Friday, April 18th |
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22 |
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. |
Reading: