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COMP 519: Web Programming
Autumn 2015

Assignment 1: Creating a Home Page

Deadline

21 October 2015 (5pm)

Background

For your first assignment, you are to create your own home page that will be placed on the Web. In addition to telling the world about you, your home page will serve as a central repository of Web-based applications that you develop for this module.

Learning outcomes

The purpose of this assignment is for you to demonstrate the following learning outcomes and for me to assess your achievement of them.

Students should:

have an understanding of the range of programming techniques and languages available to organisations and businesses and be able to choose an appropriate architecture for a web application.
be able to demonstrate abilities to design and implement maintainable web sites.
be able to make informed and critical desicisions regarding client development using HTML and JavaScript.
have the knowledge to critically analyse and evaluate web applications.

Description of the task

Aside from the required elements below, the layout and content of your Web page are entirely up to you. You are encouraged to be creative and produce a document that you are proud to display to the world and that is easy to read.

At a bare minimum, your page must provide the following:

Part 1 (35 points)

Your page should have at least two different parts, one containing some personal information (like your name, where you're from, etc.), and another a set of links. You should include both internal links (that jump to locations within the info page) and external links that would lead to other pages on the web (like something related to one of your hobbies, etc).
Your info page must have your name prominently centered at the top.
There should be several sections to the info page (e.g., Personal Info, Hobbies, Favorite Links), each with its own heading. At least one section must have multiple paragraphs in it.

Part 2 (15 points)

Your info page should perform some text formatting (bold, italics, color, BIG) but try not to overdue it to the point that the content is compromised.
You should include a favorite quote, e.g., a poem or line from a movie.
There should be at least one list (e.g., your top-ten favorite CDs).
There should be at least 5 links in the page, including a link to the University of Liverpool and to the COMP 519 home page. At least one of those links must occur in a sentence.

Part 3 (25 points)

There should be at least 2 images in the page, one of which must be stored locally along with the Web page.
There must be at least one table, some of whose rows are more than one line long.
The page's location and last modification date should be automatically displayed at the bottom. (Use JavaScript here.)
Your page must make use of a style sheet that defines basic formatting style, including the format of tables. The style sheet should be defined in a separate file and linked to your page. You can also use some inline directives for a few of the simple styles (like making bold-faced text).

Important note: Your page should use standard HTML (and CSS) features only, so that it will be viewable using Internet Explorer, Netscape (Firefox), Opera, Safari, Chrome, etc. While it may not look exactly the same due to inconsistencies and variations in the browser implementations, your page should look reasonable under any such browser.

Part 4 (25 points)

Your homepage should have a nice (professional) look and its code should satisfy common standards. In particular, for maximum points here, your webpage shoud satisfy the Strict XHTML 1.0 (or 1.1) standards, or the HTML5 standards (including a proper Document Type Declaration in the HTML file). You should pass it through the W3C validator. If you have any errors, you might try to run your HTML code through tidy (although this is no excuse for sloppy coding in the first place).

Submission of work

NOTE: You must submit your webpage via the Department's Coursework Submission Server. That's the "official proof" that your assignment has been submitted on time. Please include whatever files (e.g. HTML and external CSS files) are appropriate in your submission. You can create one zipped file for your submission. Please do not use the RAR (or some other proprietary) format!

When submitting your solution, don't forget to include a completed Declaration of Academic Integrity.

Also, please make your webpage available online so that I can access it via a web browser.

Assessment

This assignment contributes 1/4 of the 75% continuous assessment part of the course grade. The maximum possible grade on this assignment is 100 points.

Failure in this task can be compensated by higher marks on the other assessments of the module.

COMP519 marking descriptors

Grade	Classification	Percentage	Qualitative Description
A*	Good Distinction	80+	Factually almost faultless; perceptive and focused treatment of all issues. Clearly directed; logical; comprehensive coverage of topic; strong evidence of reading/research outside the material presented in the programme; substantial elements of originality and independent thought; very well written. critical and scholarly presentation.
A	Distinction	70-79	Logical; enlightening; originality of thought or approach; good coverage of topic; clear, in-depth understanding of material; good focus; good evidence of outside reading/research; very well written and directed.
B	Good Pass	60-69	Logical; thorough; factually sound (no serious errors); good understanding of material; evidence of outside reading/research; exercise of critical judgement; some originality of thought or approach; well written and directed.
C	Pass	50-59	Worthy effort, but undistinguished outcome. Essentially correct, but possibly missing important points or inadequate treatment. Largely derived from material delivered in the programme, but with some evidence of outside reading/research; some evidence of critical judgement; some weaknesses in expression/presentation.
D	Compensatable Fail	40-49	Incomplete coverage of topic; evidence of poor understanding of material; Poor presentation; lack of coherent argument. Very basic approach to a narrow or misguided selection of material. Lacking in background and/or flawed in structure.
F	Fail	< 40	Serious omissions; significant errors/misconceptions; poorly directed at targets; evidence of inadequate effort. Shallow and poorly presented work showing failure in understanding.

Late submissions

The University's standard policy on lateness penalties will be applied with respect to the latest electronic submission of the assessment. See Section 6 of the Code of Practice on Assessment for further details.

COMP 519: Web Programming Autumn 2015