Spring 2006
- Note
- This page is maintained as an archival record of the course shown above, and as such, some links on this page may no longer be valid nor accessible. They are kept here as a record of the resources that were available at the time of the course offering.
All materials are in PDF. Sorry, you won’t find source code or solutions here; contact me directly for those.
- Announcements
- 20060411: As discussed in class today, the portfolio submission deadline has been moved to Tuesday, May 2, at 2pm (right before the final exam).
- Syllabus
- Assignments
- Handouts
- 0110: What is a Multimedia Application?
- 0112: Getting Started with Multimedia Authoring — Prospectus and Specification
- 0112: Sample prospectus, sample specification
- 0117: Application Structure with Model-View-Controller (MVC)
- 0117: MVC and Multimedia
- 0117: A Technical Introduction to Images
- 0124: A Technical Introduction to Audio
- 0126: A Technical Introduction to Video
- 0131: Multimedia Authoring I: DVD Authoring
- 0131: Consumer DVD Authoring Workflow
- 0207: Pro DVD Authoring Features
- 0207: Pro DVD Authoring Workflow
- 0214: DVD Asset Checklist
- 0221: Midterm Review Sheet
- 0221: Multimedia Authoring II: Flash Authoring
- 0221: Flash Design Workflow
- 0314: Flash Developer Workflow
- 0314: Flash “Recipes”
- 0321: ActionScript Overview
- 0321: Model-View-Controller (MVC) in Flash via ActionScript
- 0328: More on Movie Clip Control
- 0330: More Flash MVC: A Multiple-Choice Quiz
- 0330: Multimedia Authoring III: Web Authoring
- 0330: Web Work Flows: User/Audience/Runtime
- 0404: Web Work Flows: Developer
- 0404: XHTML Sample File Set
- 0406: XHTML Rules of Thumb
- 0411: The Tags that Bind
- 0418: Putting Them Together: Web Asset Presentation
- 0418: XHTML + CSS + JavaScript Sample File Set
- 0425: Time on Your Side; Communicating with a Plug-In
- 0425: XHTML + JavaScript Autoplay Sample File Set
- 0427: Final Review Sheet
Related External Links
These links take you to Web sites beyond this server. The sites are in no particular order or bias, just “as they came to mind.”
- A sampling of media-rich Web sites: CNN, LA Times, NBA, QuickTime Movie Trailers, DC Comics
- Google sites use JavaScript particularly well: Google Maps, Google Suggest
- Hollywood loves Macromedia Flash: Movie sites for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
- A standalone multimedia application: iTunes, particularly the iTunes Music Store
- Flash animations galore can be seen at JibJab
- A Flash tutorial from W3 Schools
- A simple CSS tutorial “from the ground up” from Web Page Design for Designers
- CSS notes from Prof. Ray Toal’s Internet technologies course
- Web learning resources:
- W3 Schools: Nice try-it-yourself feature here
- The HTMLHelp.com
- The Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C): The ultimate authority, but may be too much for a beginner
- The Web Developer Extension home page: Extremely useful, and free!
- Wikipedia: A good starting point for virtually any concept lookup
- Audacity: A free, cross-platform sampled sound editor
