It's our third week in this class, and I have an idea of what's going on, but I'm still somewhat unsure of what I'm supposed to be doing for our Individual projects. I understand the concept of having individual projects in order to ensure that each member knows what they are doing in the larger scope of things when it comes to the group project, but if we're having individual projects to learn material, then what, besides working as a group, are we supposed to be learning on our group projects?
I'm going to use this blog post to educate myself, and the people who are going to read this because after talking to quite a few of my classmates, it seems that they are in the same position I'm in right now.
For Individual project 1 we have to "Use xmlhttprequest to fetch a static file from your web server and integrate it into your web page. This is a conceptual presentation of functionality you expect to incorporate into your project. Your code should work in both Internet Explorer and Firefox. Xmlhttprequest is covered in the first three chapters of the Head First Ajax book. To get credit, you will have to access your own file and incorporate the results into the page display."
I found myself wondering what the hell xmlhttprequest was...don't look at me that way, I know you are wondering too. So I went to my favorite know-all tell-all website, wikipedia.org. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's basically just accessing a JavaScript file on a web page to fulfill some kind of function. Similar to what we did in class, which seems easy enough because we should be able to reuse at least some of the code without being punished. We'd just have to create our own page with our own images, etc. After looking at it and thinking about it for quite a while, it seems like it'll be easy and hard at the same time. I know what I need to do, it's just the technical part that is going to be difficult. I'm really hoping that since it's due next Wednesday, we'll have some time in class to do it so that we can ask questions if we get stuck.
I totally agree with you John. I think the concept is easy but actually doing it is another. I hope I can figure it out too so I don't stand up there and look stupid.
ReplyDeleteI think that Drake will for sure go over what is expected. John I like the blog. I think that others are thinking very similar questions. This blog really allows us to communicate more frequently with how to improve.
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