Syllabus
Information Organization Lab will give students the opportunity to explore concepts related to information organization and retrieval in a hands-on fashion and develop competency with technical tools they can use in other projects at the School of Information.These tools will include: Javascript, JQuery, Python, XML, and version control using Git.
Students will complete four projects during the course of the semester. Projects will cover topics including: controlled vocabularies, social classification, and information retrieval.
Download Syllabus| Date | Subject | Assigned | Due |
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| L1. 8/27 | Introductions, Syllabus, HTML, DOM, CSS | Mini-Assignment: Setup & Your First IOLab Website | |
| L2. 8/29 | Javascript and jQuery | HW1 Assigned - Simple Website, JavaScript, & Inspector | Mini Assignment |
| 9/3 | Holiday | ||
| L3. 9/5 lab | jQuery and Git | Reading: Bush, Vannebar - "As We May Think" | HW1 Due |
| L4. 9/10 | Project 1 - Delicious Memex (go through working demo) | Project 1 Assigned | |
| L5. 9/12 lab | More Git | HW2 Assigned | |
| L6. 9/17 | Web Standards + HTML5 | ||
| L7. 9/19 lab | HTML5 Demos | ||
| L8. 9/24 | Project 1 Demos | Reading:
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Project 1 Due, HW 2 Due |
| L9. 9/26 lab | Software Engineering: Code style, comments, documentation | Project 2 Assigned | |
| L10. 10/1 | Working with APIs (callbacks, JSON-P, etc.) | ||
| L11. 10/3 lab | OAuth2 Lab - Get everyone to connect to facebook | ||
| L12. 10/8 | Mobile | ||
| L13. 10/10 lab | Responsive Web / Adaptive Design | ||
| L14. 10/15 | Data Visualization | ||
| L15. 10/17 lab | Data Visualization Lab | ||
| L16. 10/22 | Project 2 Demos | Project 3 Assigned | Project 2 Due |
| L17. 10/24 lab | Fusion Tables (Data Viz) | ||
| L18. 10/29 | Outsourcing Tools - Mechanical Turk, etc. | ||
| L19. 10/31 lab | Test Driven Development (TDD) / Unit Testing | ||
| L20. 11/5 | Object Oriented Javascript | ||
| L21. 11/7 lab | Python Scripting Lab | ||
| 11/12 | Holiday | ||
| L22. 11/14 | Project 3 Demos | Final Project Assigned | Project 3 Due |
| L23. 11/19 | Node. JS | ||
| L24. 11/21 | Final Project Ideas/Brainstorming | ||
| Thanksgiving | |||
| L25. 11/26 | Course Review/Wrap Up | Final Project Checkpoint | |
| L26. 11/28 | Misc Topics / Project Hacking | ||
| 12/10 | Final Project Due (11:59PM) | ||
| 12/12 | Final Project Presentations (3:00-6:00PM) |