Week 12A

In Class

Lecture:

In class we started to go over and review jQuery, Java and Javascript. In simple terms Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by sun Microsystems in 1995. It is the underlying technology that powers state-of the-art pr0grams including utilities, games and applications. Mostly computer science majors use Java. As for Javascript, this is a distant cousin of java and not the same type of code. This is a more loosely scripted code which contains a much smaller and simpler set of commands. JQuery is a coding language that is a branch from javascript, that helps with the interaction and effects with your development code. Within jQuery there are plugins that add to the functionality of an website and the development time for creating interactive functions. 

Class Exercise:

During class we worked on creating our own interactive functions into our pages. For example in the first image we created our own sliding image and the second we created a smooth scroll.

For the sliding image, we had to copy paste the javascript files and incorporate them into our last project folder. This part wasn't that difficult. As for the second task my partner and I had a harder time figuring out what we needed to delete out of the original code for the smooth scroll to work. The section that finally needed to be deleted was the navigation because the smooth scroll needed it's own navigation and was getting overlapped by the original nav. This was slightly difficult because the project I picked was more complex and harder to figure out where the new code should be placed into the old code.