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The name of the module is Interaction Design It is part of the Interaction Design package under the Multimedia Design and Communications Programme .
- Length
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This course has a length of 7.5 ECTS. A full work year for a student corresponds to 60 ECTS. This course entails therefore 1/8 of a year, equivalent to 240 work hours. Out of those 240 hours only 48 (64 lessons) are scheduled for the classroom. The rest is homework and project work.
- Prerequisites
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None outside the general prerequisites for the whole programme.
- Evaluation
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This course has two major assignments/projects during the semester. Both are obligatory. The latter of the two is the participation in the cross disciplinary project leading up to an internal exam at the end of the semester. This exam will prepare you for the format of the first annual exam taking place after your second semester of studies. The project will consist of producing a digital product and documenting the work in a formal report.
The 2nd semester of the program is the programming semester. You are somewhat jum started from semester one. We did a bit of ActionScript3 then. Now we shall go directly to the core of the web by teaching you two core web languages.
- PHP, an acronym for PHP Home Pages, a server side programming language
- JavaScript, a client side programming language
As an introduction to each semester I outline the World Wide Web architecture and place the course disciplines in a wider context. The aim is to get a high altitude perspective of your coming work for the programme. Please refer to Appendix A, The Client/Server Model . You may choose to look at C/S from a PHP perspective.
Figure 2. Three tier client/server
Please notice that here, too, the file system is local to the web server, and the database location is on principle transparent. This means we do not know where it is located. It is referenced through it's URI (URL). In our development environment, all three (two) tiers are installed on our own development computer, normally our laptop.
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