ISC 105 Assignment Two - Due April 3rd
This is a relatively straightforward assignment:
PART ONE:
FIRST READ AND WORK THROUGH THE FOLLOWING TUTORIALS:
http://spreadsheets.about.com/od/excel101/ss/enter_data.htm
http://spreadsheets.about.com/od/excelcharts/ss/line_graph.htm
DON"T HAND IN ANY RESULTS TO ME - THESE TUTORIALS ARE MEANT TO GIVE YOU BACKGROUND
THEN:
1) Go to the following website and do the tutorial on creating a column chart in Excel:
http://spreadsheets.about.com/od/excelcharts/ss/column_chart.htm
2) Go to the following website and do the "creating a pie chart tutorial"
http://spreadsheets.about.com/od/excelcharts/ss/pie_chart.htm
>>>Hand in both charts to me.
PART TWO:
I want to introduce you to some
resources where you can explore aspects of web technology on your
own.
1) The website for the World-Wide Web
Consortium:
http://www.w3.org/
Here
you will find a wealth of material pertaining to the World Wide Web.
See if you can find tutorials for HTML and CSS.
This website can
be an important source of information for you!
2)
I want to go to another series of sites - these are run by a company,
but they will let you "play around" a bit with some
code.
A) Here's a brief exposure to
HTML:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/
Go
to first example, look at the code, and click on the button "Try
it yourself".
Edit the code to so that "first" in
each line is changed to "second"; then press the button
"Edit and click me"
B) Then, go
to:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_basic_img
Look
at the code in the left window. How do you think that you can change
the size of the image in the right window?
C) Then,
go to:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_examples.asp
Find
the heading: HTML Images
Try to run each example
under the heading and look at the code in the left window. Try
modifying to code to see what happens!
NOTE: As you are
working through the image examples, you might want a further
explanation of the code. If you want some "enlightenment"
about what is happening, go
to:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_images.asp
D) Please go to the following website:
http://www.w3schools.com/xml/default.asp
On the left hand side of the page, you will see the heading "XML HOME". Start with "XML Introduction" and work through as much of the site as you can for around thirty minutes.
>>>Now, answer the following questions and hand in your responses as part of the assignment:
A) What is HTML? How can it help us work in digital humanities? What did you learn by doing the lab tutorials for HTML? (Please be specific.)
B) What is XML? How can it help us work in digital humanities? What did you learn by doing the lab tutorial for XML as well the assigned reading ? (Please be specific.)
C) What is the TEI? Why is it important for Digital Humanities?
PART THREE:
Go to the following website:
LOOK AT ONLY THE FIRST SIX INFOGRAPHIC EXAMPLES.
>>>Then provide answers to these questions : What is the best infographic? (And explain what it is.) What is the worst infographic? (And explain what it is) Why did you give the assessment of "best" or "worst" to each of this infographics?
PART FOUR:
Go to the following website and read the short paper:
https://web.stanford.edu/group/toolingup/rplviz/papers/Vis_RofL_2009
>>> Then, write a short summary of what are the major points of the paper.