The Full Web Stack
Agenda
- Weekly Inspiration Review
- Midterm Critique Assignment
- The “Full Stack” (Slides PDF)
- Debugging & Validators
- Sketching & Final Work
Assignments/Reminders
- You should have e-mailed an overview of your final project to us by today. Do that immediately if not.
- Start assembling the raw material for your final project and sketch —literally — your ideas for design and interaction.
- Before Thursday Write a paragraph or two of feedback about the storytelling approach, visual design, usability and code choices of the classmate that follows you alphabetically on the assignment roster. E-mail a copy to them and CC Josh and Tyson.
- News nerd profile presentations start next week, on April 22. Alert us immediately if you haven’t confirmed availablity with your subject. You should be prepared for a five-minute presentation to the class in addition to linking to your written profile on the class assignments spreadsheet.
Debugging Tips
- Chrome’s Inspector for HTML & CSS; a broad overview of the tools
- Using the Chrome Console and Debugging JavaScript
- Validators: HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- Snappy Snippet makes it easy to quicky implement styles.
- JSFiddle is a good sandbox for exploring smaller bits of code or saving re-usable snippets.
- Debug on your mobile device with remote inspectors