tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85509705089503146142024-03-06T05:31:37.500-05:00Web-BasedComputing @ NCSUBen Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654330374746823837noreply@blogger.comBlogger480125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550970508950314614.post-17420439666635980472016-01-26T10:17:00.001-05:002016-01-26T10:17:45.579-05:00Job at local analytics shop brooks bell<div style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br><br><a href="https://twitter.com/mikeadamsnc/status/691641557993263108">https://twitter.com/mikeadamsnc/status/691641557993263108</a><br></div> Ben Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654330374746823837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550970508950314614.post-81171497873651789042015-12-16T17:36:00.001-05:002015-12-16T17:36:03.169-05:00Announcement: best effort grades up!Folks,<br />
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Our best effort grades are up! Please have a look and let us know if you see any problems.<br />
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Changes from here on out should be few.<br />
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Professor Watson.Ben Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654330374746823837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550970508950314614.post-69357478634736361232015-12-14T16:05:00.001-05:002015-12-14T16:05:26.793-05:00Peer EvaluationsHi folks,<br />
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Peer evaluations are available <a href="https://docs.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/forms/d/1TJpPTGToqtKf91RGw6wl2V4MeUsbH_9uXlLBzKbdpww/viewform?usp=send_form">here</a>, if you wish to evaluate your team members. You are not required to do this.<br />
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Have a good break!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550970508950314614.post-8999858691306684012015-12-11T12:50:00.002-05:002015-12-11T14:37:09.730-05:00Project: Nonlinear Learning<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="thumbnail.jpg" src="https://github.com/kjcommon138/Non-Linear-Proposal/blob/master/thumbnail.jpg?raw=true" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Problem:</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the main focuses of our nonlinear learning project was to incorporate mind maps for nonlinear learning, and use p5.js for videos with interactive elements. We spent over 2 months exploring the different aspects of the Go.Js library (mind map) and the p5.js library (interactive videos), and this report will highlight our findings and opinions.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Description:</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Linear learning, as found on course sites such as moodle exhibit a very rigid type of learning, where people go from topic A to B, then to C. Nonlinear learning allows students to navigate through different topics at their leisure, while providing the instructor the tools to guide them in the right direction. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Future Work:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Add more immersive elements to mindmap (different sounds for different actions)</span></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Allowing mindmap changes to be directly saved to the html file</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">More tools for instructors who are not proficient with coding (interfaces for non-technical users)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Incorporating whole course web pages into mindmap (moodle)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tracker for most visited videos, favorites list</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Video Demo: </span></div>
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<a href="https://youtu.be/YHR-37O7w6Q" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://youtu.be/YHR-37O7w6Q</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our Site:</span></div>
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<a href="http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kjcommon/CSC342/anotherMind.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kjcommon/CSC342/anotherMind.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Github Repo:</span></div>
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<a href="https://github.com/kjcommon138/Non-Linear-Proposal" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://github.com/kjcommon138/Non-Linear-Proposal</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Presentation:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/presentation/d/1-ddE2I7lTyhya-ukW6UMCG9j7Xo9vJ-zhUHIneoBuRI/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration: none;">https://docs.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/presentation/d/1-ddE2I7lTyhya-ukW6UMCG9j7Xo9vJ-zhUHIneoBuRI/edit?usp=sharing</a></span></div>
<b>User Feedback and Evaluations:</b><br />
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<b><a href="https://docs.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/document/d/1qWz3rIN9NmhkNBTscGFsn3sd3XueZmyHnAjNo035auE/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/document/d/1qWz3rIN9NmhkNBTscGFsn3sd3XueZmyHnAjNo035auE/edit?usp=sharing</a></b><br />
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<b>Report of Go.Js and p5.js utility</b><br />
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<b><a href="https://docs.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/document/d/18zXQo68JWzYhsgQ6l_rAoa0ejuyf66Q71dAjPp3UQrU/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/document/d/18zXQo68JWzYhsgQ6l_rAoa0ejuyf66Q71dAjPp3UQrU/edit?usp=sharing</a></b><br />
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<b>User Manual:</b><br />
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<b><a href="https://docs.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/document/d/1hP5OV1aaaPVSeOUxbJvpHkBmrcdDOwVwyZh-TxC8ZRs/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/document/d/1hP5OV1aaaPVSeOUxbJvpHkBmrcdDOwVwyZh-TxC8ZRs/edit?usp=sharing</a></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">o</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "roboto"; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">rites list</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550970508950314614.post-91559549690068387152015-12-11T12:45:00.006-05:002015-12-11T12:46:28.430-05:00Project: FuturePres1<div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Felipe Sousa de Andrade</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zachary Butler</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bada Kim</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hussein Koprly</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Veronica Sigler</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Linda Vue</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 21.3333px; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tagline</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create presentations that enable greater interactivity between the audience and the presenter. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 21.3333px; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Core Problem the App Solves</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We created an example of an interface that allows users to display more interactive and engaging presentations than is traditionally available through Microsoft Powerpoint. Our focus is on the guided communication scenario, with the goal of improving audience participation and non-linear structure.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 21.3333px; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Madness Behind the App</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our application utilizes the following tools:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bootstrap</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JavaScript</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">jQuery</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PHP</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MySQL</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The tool is a web-based blueprint-dashboard of a presentation that will allow users to navigate the presentation in a nonlinear manner. Each panel on the dashboard represents a part of the presentation. After clicking on a tile, the viewer will either be shown information, or another set of tiles representing subcategories. This allows the presenter the flexibility of nesting information into categories for easier navigation, rather than having dozens of tiles on the top level. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As indicated above, there are two views: the audience and presenter view. The audience view shows the presentation itself and allows the audience to ‘like’ a page, as well ask questions. The presenter view shows statistics of the site, such as the page that has the most views and the most liked site. The presenter view also shows questions from the audience in the presenter panel at the bottom of the site. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The tool is currently use-case specific for a Zoo and showcases functionality and capabilities that would be available to presenters. We do not currently have a tool that would allow users to create their own presentations as this project is a demonstration of what the tool could provide in the presentation realm. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is currently a distinct presenter and audience view that allows for a QA-like interaction. Currently, the audience is able to submit questions, however the tool is limited in that the presenter is only able to answer verbally (this is sufficient for our project because we are implementing for a use-case specific scenario of a live Zoo presentation). That being said, a future goal is to incorporate an answering system such that the presenter may respond directly to the audience, or to have the questions and answers viewable to the audience as a whole. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We were also unable to provide multimedia support as listed in our project proposal due to time limitations. </span></div>
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Presentations follow a linear path from one slide of information to the next which offers very little flexibility for the presenter and can also be dull for its audience. The idea of FuturePres is to create a new way to present data in a non-linear model to improve the experience of presentations for the presenter and his/her audience. For our implementation we focused on legal cases where lawyers have to record data and present them in a court of law. The website is split into four different categories: People, Places, Evidence, and Events. These are used to store the data from cases into the sstem to represent later. Once Data is stored onto the system the data is linked from one to another by connecting factors of other categories. Using this the presenter can move from one piece of data to the next by simply clicking on a connecting factor and guide the presentation. A timeline is also implemented in the View section to show events on a day to day, week by week, or even year by year selection.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550970508950314614.post-15254195415038153932015-12-11T11:12:00.001-05:002015-12-11T11:12:09.739-05:00Project: Sharks<br />
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We would like to provide students the opportunity to experience the process of finding, measuring, and doing statistics on shark teeth, without needing to acquire expensive supplies. We want to create a "virtual fossil dig" which will allow students to get a similar experience by through their browser.<br /><h4>
How it Works: </h4>
From the homepage, users can click on the "Start Digging!" button to be directed to the main game panel. 15 Shark teeth will be randomly scattered across a background of "fossil dirt." Not all of the dig area is visible at once, so users will need to scroll around using the arrow keys or scrollbars. Once a user sees a tooth, they can click it, at which point it will disappear from the game window and reappear in an inventory panel. Once all 15 teeth have been discovered, the user can progress to a measurement page where they try to fit each tooth into the smallest circle that completely encloses it. Once all teeth have been measured, the user progresses to a statistics page, where the size distribution of the teeth they have measured is compared against the size distribution of all of the teeth in the database.
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Future Work: </h4>
<ul>
<li>
Add an "I give up" button which highlights remaining teeth so that they can be found</li>
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Zoom in/out functionality </li>
<li>Better interface</li>
<li>More backgrounds</li>
<li>Provide more information about the shark teeth and sharks they came from </li>
<li>Class / group functionality - compare your teeth statistics against the entire class</li>
</ul>
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<a href="http://152.46.20.125/">Demo Site</a></h4>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g2ybI_UdYA">Screencast</a></h4>
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<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1y66k0fKaNp-xJLJ3INlgCk8a4i8WZyxEFkqlTJ3bZds/edit#slide=id.ge82a8a9ca_0_5">Presentation</a></h4>
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<a href="https://github.com/NCSUWebClass/fall15-sharks">Github</a></h4>
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<b>Created By: </b><br />
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Remington Campbell, William Pruett, Eric Anderson, Daniel Alley, Kevin Reed, Derek SchreinerUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550970508950314614.post-49911850295575609692015-12-11T10:28:00.000-05:002015-12-11T10:32:02.088-05:00Project: Seniors<h2 style="text-align: center;">
Resources for Seniors, Inc</h2>
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<i>Accessible information for Senior Citizens at a click of a button</i></div>
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<img alt="thumbnail.jpg" src="https://github.ncsu.edu/csc342-2015b-rfs/resources-for-seniors/blob/master/project_deliverables/thumbnail.jpg?raw=true" /></h4>
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Problem: </h4>
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In order to best cater to the needs of a growing Senior Citizen presence in North Carolina, the Resources for Seniors, Inc website was redesigned in order to accommodate additional functionality and facilitate the process for users to view, save and print information about companies related to their interests.</div>
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Description: </h4>
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Resources for Seniors serves senior and disabled adults in Wake County, NC, by providing home and community-based services and information so that they can maximize their choices for independence, comfort, safety, security and well-being. We provide information and support for decision-making, and also direct services such as home care, adult day care, senior centers, home repair, and more. We are committed to excellence in service and care for individuals and their families. In particular, the project listed here allows web access to all information that Resources for Seniors, Inc provides in a user friendly, intuitive manor on a variety of devices.</div>
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Future Work:</h4>
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<ul>
<li>Frequent updates of Company information on the Webpages</li>
<li>Deployment of new PHP stack onto the Web Server</li>
</ul>
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Video:</h4>
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<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9mqVrTgTRo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9mqVrTgTRo</a></li>
</ul>
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Demo Server:</h4>
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<ul>
<li><a href="http://rfs.lodicolo.info/rfs/master/">http://rfs.lodicolo.info/rfs/master/</a></li>
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Presentation:</h4>
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<li><a href="https://docs.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/presentation/d/1QlXsYUih_FV7CW9JOpeYZzQOCFN3da_DvkiOPHN5FMg/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/presentation/d/1QlXsYUih_FV7CW9JOpeYZzQOCFN3da_DvkiOPHN5FMg/edit?usp=sharing</a></li>
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<i>Eric Bolender, Thomas Boop, Arthur Harris, Robert Lodico, Jacob Rose, Miles Wells</i></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550970508950314614.post-73316586932850748022015-12-10T20:40:00.000-05:002015-12-11T12:42:12.117-05:00Project: SAS Team Two<br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HbuOs_KDvLw/VmoJ3QfhDXI/AAAAAAAAABU/fKFSEZNyNCg/s1600/sas-small.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HbuOs_KDvLw/VmoJ3QfhDXI/AAAAAAAAABU/fKFSEZNyNCg/s1600/sas-small.jpg" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>CSC 342 Sas Team 2 Project Description </b></span><br />
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<b>TagLine:</b><br />
Web application demonstrating different ways to animate the transition between data and a graph.<br />
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Problem to solve: Transitions from data to graphs are often clunky and hard to follow, if they even exist at all. The goal of this web app is to demonstrates ways for these transitions that are smooth and easy to follow.<br />
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<b>How it works:</b><br />
This application used a simple user interface consisting of an area for the data and an area for the graph. It also has a side bar that allow the user to choose which type of animation and transition to display.<br />
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Most of the transitions are done with the animate function in jquery, where we can decide where to move elements and how much to expand or compress them. The data for the demo is coded in an array for ease of access. Also, we used p5.js for our pie and doughnut chart. And finally, the animations themselves are done with a setInterval function to make all the timing work out properly.<br />
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<b>Unfinished and future work:</b><br />
-Finding ways to transition to other types of graphs.<br />
-Implementing the transitions with larger data sets<br />
- Being able to upload your own data set<br />
- Coming up with different animation styles<br />
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<b>Link to site:</b><br />
<a href="http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tcpatter/csc342/">http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tcpatter/csc342/</a><br />
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<b>Presentation</b><br />
<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Z0bY3n2lwsVa_rwYfxaKMv-run7NtjxVgsCO20nUo2Y/edit#slide=id.gec04617d4_0_53">https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Z0bY3n2lwsVa_rwYfxaKMv-run7NtjxVgsCO20nUo2Y/edit#slide=id.gec04617d4_0_53</a><br />
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<b>Video</b><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gElNyBlpyg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gElNyBlpyg</a><br />
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<b>GitHub:</b><br />
<a href="https://github.com/NCSUWebClass/fall15-sasgraphs2">https://github.com/NCSUWebClass/fall15-sasgraphs2</a><br />
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Michael MacKrell, James Schaefer, Connor Patterson, Jose Chavez, Philip JonesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550970508950314614.post-66158037995212802532015-12-10T20:37:00.000-05:002015-12-10T20:50:32.168-05:00New Kind – We’re Looking for a Web Development Intern<div><a href="http://newkind.com/2015/12/10/were-looking-for-a-web-development-intern/">New Kind – We're Looking for a Web Development Intern</a> <br></div><div></div>Ben Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654330374746823837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550970508950314614.post-65716484133525117262015-12-10T16:30:00.001-05:002015-12-11T11:27:39.091-05:00Project: CodeArt<br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2NitW-w9tGM/VmntytQR83I/AAAAAAAAABc/tAh5I1Xmd9o/s1600/Logo.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2NitW-w9tGM/VmntytQR83I/AAAAAAAAABc/tAh5I1Xmd9o/s1600/Logo.jpg" /></a><br />
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LENT - A project that turns library technology into art. </h3>
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Problem:</h4>
How to combine useful data about Hunt Library's Tech-Lending resources with digital art and sound. <br />
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<h4>
Description:</h4>
A project to turn library technology into art. Users are able to see a visual representation of the technology that is currently available to be checked out at Hunt library in the Immersion Theatre. On the left is a legend that allows the user to see how many of each item is currently checked out, as well as a key that shows what each shape in the visualizer represents. On the right is the visualizer - a unique way to display the data about what technology is currently available and checked out from the library. The purpose of the project is to find a way combine a useful data with art, as part of NCSU Hunt Library's CodeArt Competition.<br />
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<h4>
Future Work: </h4>
<ul>
<li>System Testing within the Immersion Theatre</li>
<li> For every 10 or so minutes, allow each individual sound to provide a "roll-call" along side an animation, so that viewers could see which object is associated to which device</li>
<li>Convert 3D objects to three.js</li>
<li>Allow the aesthetics of the visuals and sound to change depending on the time of the day</li>
<li>Update the "Castle" so that we have different variations showing up on the map</li>
<li>Add Camera/Tilt Perspective to the map space</li>
<li>Change mechanism in which the chart is currently being loaded, so that a Timout doesn't need to be used </li>
<li>Allow extendability with loading objects, for easy inclusion of new devices</li>
</ul>
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<h4>
<a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NCSUWebClass/fall15-codeart/master/Demo.mp4" target="_blank">Link to Video</a></h4>
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<a href="http://www4.ncsu.edu/~ttsanton/project/lent" target="_blank">Link to Live Working Demo</a> </h4>
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<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KUQ7cLyK5RvbXvQwPJSUVR22iqfIMBzyJ3-Ny7eLJSk/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Link to Presentation</a></h4>
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GitHub:</h4>
<a href="http://go.ncsu.edu/codeartlent">http://go.ncsu.edu/codeartlent</a><br />
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Created By: Cameren Dolecheck, Tori Santonil, Filip Kolev, Zane Hissom, Nicholli Bernard, Kamaria Hardy<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550970508950314614.post-66703186302333512022015-12-10T16:19:00.002-05:002015-12-10T16:19:30.034-05:00Spiral SleepwalkerProject: Spiral Sleepwalker<br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t6-65ePXCek/Vmnkw3a0ykI/AAAAAAAAALw/kd-jN-MHwos/s1600/walker.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="183" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t6-65ePXCek/Vmnkw3a0ykI/AAAAAAAAALw/kd-jN-MHwos/s320/walker.png" width="320" /></a><br />
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Team members: <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Abbey Lancaster, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Aoyi Li, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Kai Ma, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Nicholas Waked, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; white-space: nowrap;">Ethan Swartzentruber and Jennifer Wagman</span><br />
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Tagline: Gravity-Based Mobile Platformer<br />
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Problem:<br />
Developing a web based mobile game that reads data from motion sensors on smartphone or tablet.<br />
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Implementation:<br />
We wanted to create a native mobile game experience while the user was actually playing a web based mobile game. We used p5.js to implement all of the game's graphics, including a gravity oriented mechanism that allowed the user to manipulate the sleepwalker in the game. Various levels are implemented, with varying amounts of difficulty. The amount of monsters increases as the player moves to higher levels, and the maps become more difficult to navigate.<br />
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Future/Unfinished Work:<br />
The game still has extreme performance issues on Android, we expect that switching libraries would make this better.<br />
Implementing more levels<br />
Developing a tool for non-programmers to create levels<br />
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Links:<br />
Link to <a href="http://ncsuwebclass.github.io/fall15-spiral/" target="_blank">Working Site</a><br />
Link to <a href="https://github.com/NCSUWebClass/fall15-spiral" target="_blank">GitHub</a><br />
Link to <a href="https://youtu.be/gaKiGNsZa54" target="_blank">Video</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550970508950314614.post-30166749750567007992015-12-09T16:43:00.001-05:002015-12-09T16:43:29.888-05:00Friday's NexUX meetup with Emil Polyak - 3:30pm at Hunt Library!<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>As before, 1% extra credit for coming.</div><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately we could not swing the beer yet. As you might imagine, there is some bureaucracy :-(</div><div><br></div><div>Webclass, we'll just be a bit late in arriving.</div><br><u></u> <div marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" style="margin:0;padding:0;background-color:#f2f2f2;min-height:100%!important;width:100%!important"> <center> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="100%" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse;margin:0;padding:0;background-color:#f2f2f2;height:100%!important;width:100%!important"> <tbody><tr> <td align="center" valign="top" style="margin:0;padding:20px;border-top:0;height:100%!important;width:100%!important"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" style="border-collapse:collapse;border:0"> <tbody><tr> <td align="center" valign="top"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" style="border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%;background-color:#ffffff;border-top:0;border-bottom:0"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" style="padding-top:9px"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" style="padding:9px 18px;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;line-height:125%;text-align:center;color:#606060;font-family:Helvetica"> <div style="text-align:center">Come to Friday's nexUX Meetup! @ Hunt Library, December 11th @ 3:30p<br> <a href="http://us9.campaign-archive1.com/?u=88469c7ca24b54cd33f8d202f&id=3991fdd5a6&e=06c0800f82" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#a00000;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">View this email in your browser</a></div> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table></td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" valign="top"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" style="border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%;background-color:#ffffff;border-top:0;border-bottom:0"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" style="padding:9px"> <table align="left" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" style="padding-right:9px;padding-left:9px;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;text-align:center"> <a href="http://ncsu.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=88469c7ca24b54cd33f8d202f&id=2eb06baa87&e=06c0800f82" title="" style="word-wrap:break-word" target="_blank"> <img align="center" alt="" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/88469c7ca24b54cd33f8d202f/images/4bed7d5b-7e11-4ed0-82c9-8009c74a3ff2.jpg" width="400" style="max-width:400px;padding-bottom:0;display:inline!important;vertical-align:bottom;border:0;outline:none;text-decoration:none"> </a> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table></td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" valign="top"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" style="border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%;background-color:#ffffff;border-top:0;border-bottom:0"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" style="padding:9px 18px;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;line-height:200%;color:#606060;font-family:Helvetica;text-align:left"> <h1 style="text-align:center;margin:0;padding:0;display:block;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:38px;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:125%;letter-spacing:-1px;margin-bottom:1em;color:#606060!important">Come to the nexUX Meetup!</h1> <h3 style="text-align:center;margin:0;padding:0;display:block;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:125%;letter-spacing:-.5px;margin-top:1.5em;color:#606060!important"><img align="none" height="192" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/88469c7ca24b54cd33f8d202f/images/a61f9fcd-9829-4620-9cf2-a1874bc3469c.jpg" style="font-size:13px;font-weight:normal;line-height:20.8px;text-align:left;width:192px;min-height:192px;margin:0px;border:0;outline:none;text-decoration:none" width="192"><br> <em>With <a href="http://ncsu.us9.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=88469c7ca24b54cd33f8d202f&id=43a78e09a9&e=06c0800f82" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#a00000;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">Emil Polyak</font></a>, professor of art and design at NC State</em></h3> <h3 style="text-align:center;margin:0;padding:0;display:block;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:125%;letter-spacing:-.5px;margin-top:1.5em;color:#606060!important">A presentation of cross-disciplinary experiences</h3> <p style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#606060;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">In this informal presentation at a special time, Emil Polyak will share with us some of his work that breaks down the barriers between art and technology, and will also hold a Q&A after the presentation. 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<tbody><tr> <td> <span></span> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" style="padding:9px 18px;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;line-height:200%;color:#606060;font-family:Helvetica;text-align:left"> <h3 style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:18px;line-height:22.5px;letter-spacing:-0.5px;color:#606060!important;margin:0;display:block;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;text-align:left;margin-top:1.5em">When</h3> <p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;color:#606060;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;text-align:left">Friday, December 11, 3:30pm</p> <h3 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Hunt Library on NCSU's Centennial Campus. Events will be held in the Duke Energy Hall of <a href="http://ncsu.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=88469c7ca24b54cd33f8d202f&id=a7ec3866dd&e=06c0800f82" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#a00000;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal" target="_blank">Hunt Library</a>, with a few exceptions.</p> <p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;color:#606060;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;text-align:left"><a href="http://ncsu.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=88469c7ca24b54cd33f8d202f&id=4ec41fd3b0&e=06c0800f82" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#a00000;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal" target="_blank">James B. Hunt Jr. Library</a><br> 1070 Partners Way<br> Raleigh, NC 27606<br> <a href="http://ncsu.us9.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=88469c7ca24b54cd33f8d202f&id=77c6293410&e=06c0800f82" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#a00000;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal" target="_blank">google maps</a></p> <h3 style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:18px;line-height:22.5px;letter-spacing:-0.5px;color:#606060!important;margin:0;display:block;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;text-align:left;margin-top:1.5em">How</h3> <p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;color:#606060;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;text-align:left">Directly outside the front doors of the Hunt Library (on Partners Way) is an hourly lot. There is a mechanical arm at the entrance to this lot. You can pay by the hour at $2.00/ hour to park here. Just be prepared, as this lot only accepts credit cards (no cash).</p> <p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;color:#606060;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;text-align:left">Once parked, you will be entering the Hunt Library on the ground floor. The Duke Energy Room is up the yellow stairs and on your left.</p> <p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;color:#606060;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;text-align:left"><a href="http://ncsu.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=88469c7ca24b54cd33f8d202f&id=a746302245&e=06c0800f82" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#a00000;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal" target="_blank">NCSU Wolfline</a> buses also service the Hunt Library on several routes. 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Do them by Thursday<i>Updated:</i> I've turned them on! Apologies, force of habit.<br />
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Professor WatsonBen Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654330374746823837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550970508950314614.post-50573578578922094152015-12-06T11:24:00.001-05:002015-12-06T22:24:15.214-05:00Find: A major internet backbone company is about to make a lot of websites load much faster<div>
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<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/18/8059951/http-2-faster-basic-web-protocols">In February</a>, web engineers released a way to move information over the web. Called HTTP/2, the new protocol is designed to make web traffic faster and more efficient. In the months since it was formally approved, the challenge has been getting the rest of the web to use it.<br />
Today, the protocol is taking a big step forward, thanks to <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/http2/">a new deployment</a> from the content distribution network CloudFlare. Starting today, HTTP/2 will be available by default to all the company's customers, more than doubling the adoption for the fledgling web standard. CEO Matthew Prince says the company has been rolling out support for the protocol slowly over the past week, and company scans indicate three out of four sites using HTTP/2 on the Alexa top...<br />
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Ben Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654330374746823837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550970508950314614.post-64521837883928959922015-12-05T21:00:00.000-05:002015-12-06T20:55:12.562-05:00Find: Internet-connected Hello Barbie doll gets bitten by nasty POODLE
crypto bug<div>Barbie got hacked!</div><div><br></div><div>*** </div><div><br></div><div><b><a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/12/internet-connected-hello-barbie-doll-gets-bitten-by-nasty-poodle-crypto-bug/">Internet-connected Hello Barbie doll gets bitten by nasty POODLE crypto bug</a></b><br> // <b><a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/12/internet-connected-hello-barbie-doll-gets-bitten-by-nasty-poodle-crypto-bug/">Ars Technica</a></b><br> <br> <div> <div><a name="page-1"></a></div> <p></p> <div> <img src="http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Screen-Shot-2015-12-04-at-11.41.54-AM.png"><p>The dreaded Hello Barbie. (credit: Mattel)</p> </div>A recent review of the Internet-connected <a href="http://shop.mattel.com/family/index.jsp?categoryId=75950726&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=SKU_Hello+Barbie_Sep_Exact&gclid=Cj0KEQiAkIWzBRDK1ayo-Yjt38wBEiQAi7NnP4SczWNbF19ZmSeHd4uP1edi6U9yvpdHaOdpuriYr98aArGQ8P8HAQ&dclid=CKezxYvdwskCFRd_fgodDKYG8g">Hello Barbie doll </a> from toymaker Mattel uncovered several red flags. Not only did the toy use a weak authentication mechanism that made it possible for attackers to monitor communications the doll sent to servers, but those servers were also vulnerable to POODLE, an <a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/ssl-broken-again-in-poodle-attack/">attack disclosed 14 months ago</a> that breaks HTTPS encryption. <p>The vulnerabilities, laid out in a <a href="https://bluebox.com/hello-barbie-app-hello-security-issues/">report published Friday</a> by security firm Bluebox Labs, are the latest black eye for so-called "Internet of Things" devices. The term is applied to appliances and other everyday devices that are connected to the Internet, supposedly to give them a wider range of capabilities. The Hello Barbie doll is able to hold real-time conversations by uploading the words a child says to a server. Instant processing on the server then allows the doll to provide an appropriate response.</p> <p>Bluebox researchers uncovered a variety of weaknesses in the iOS and Android app developed by Mattel partner ToyTalk. The apps are used to connect the doll to a nearby Wi-Fi networks. The researchers also reported vulnerabilities in the remote server used to communicate with the doll.</p> </div><p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/12/internet-connected-hello-barbie-doll-gets-bitten-by-nasty-poodle-crypto-bug/#p3">Read 3 remaining paragraphs</a></p></div><div></div>Ben Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654330374746823837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550970508950314614.post-23575449076755235892015-12-05T20:57:00.001-05:002015-12-06T22:23:19.884-05:00Find: Microsoft to open source Chakra, the JavaScript heart of its Edge browser<div>
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At JSConf in Florida today, Microsoft announced that it is open sourcing Chakra, the JavaScript engine used in its Edge and Internet Explorer browsers. The code will be published to the company's <a href="https://github.com/microsoft/">GitHub page</a> next month.<br />
Microsoft is calling the version it's open sourcing ChakraCore. This is the complete JavaScript engine—the parser, the interpreter, the just-in-time compiler, and the garbage collector along with the API used to embed the engine into applications (as used in Edge). This will have the same performance and capabilities, including asm.js and SIMD support, as well as cutting-edge support for new ECMAScript 2015 language features like the version found in Microsoft's Windows 10 browser.<br />
There are some small differences, however, between ChakraCore and Chakra as ships in Windows 10. The full Chakra includes the glue between the JavaScript engine and the browser's HTML engine, and similarly, glue between the JavaScript engine and the Universal Windows Platform. Neither of these are part of ChakraCore. Chakra also has diagnostic APIs that use COM and hence are Windows-specific. These won't be in ChakraCore either. Instead, a new set of diagnostic APIs will be developed and eventually integrated into the full Chakra.</div>
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Ben Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654330374746823837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550970508950314614.post-47953611790630889082015-12-02T15:15:00.001-05:002015-12-02T15:15:32.913-05:00Announcement: project details and our final day<i>Event: </i>A reminder that projects are due as you present them during our final period, which will happen on Friday December 11, 1-4pm, in our regular room. With ten projects, we will have 18 minutes per presentation. On that day we will be visited by most of our clients. SAS and Lexis Nexis have indicated that they would prefer to come to this final period rather than host you at their facilities.<br />
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<li>To post, you will need authoring rights on our class site. To get those rights, each team should have at least one of its members contact our TA, then accept the resulting invitation. </li>
<li>There are many screencasting tools, but my preferred tool now is Google Hangouts on Air, which does not require any install. Just do a private broadcast to yourself only, and it will appear in your YouTube. You can even do a little editing there.</li>
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Professor WatsonBen Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654330374746823837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550970508950314614.post-77970769173386518012015-12-02T14:54:00.000-05:002015-12-02T14:54:25.422-05:00Announcement: grading updateFolks,<br />
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One of you pointed out that the comments headings in the wolfware grading feedback were not informative enough. We improved them.<br />
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Also, we added project grades to date.<br />
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We have not yet graded assignments (questions) and critiques.<br />
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Although today is our last class, we will do our best to respond quickly to your project and grading concerns until the final.<br />
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Professor WatsonBen Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654330374746823837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550970508950314614.post-2342031808821130332015-12-02T12:48:00.000-05:002015-12-02T12:49:27.615-05:00A primer on Python CGI Programming<div dir="ltr"><div>This should be useful to those of you who haven't already finished this Friday's homework. It describes how to connect your python script to an http/html request through cgi.</div><div><br></div><a href="http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_cgi_programming.htm">http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_cgi_programming.htm</a><div><br></div><div>Professor Watson <br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div> Ben Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654330374746823837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550970508950314614.post-86762325036693236622015-12-02T10:02:00.001-05:002015-12-02T10:02:21.420-05:00Announcement: reminder about today's office hours @ 1145With the semester winding down, I thought I would remind you about my office hours today, at the usual place and time: <div>
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Ben Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654330374746823837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550970508950314614.post-41039281597119227962015-12-01T15:39:00.001-05:002015-12-01T15:39:25.913-05:00Announcement: python, advanced tools, and visuals questions are up!<a href="http://goo.gl/forms/wIYj9Vqlcs">Pyt<span id="goog_396826747"></span><span id="goog_396826748"></span>hon</a>, <a href="http://goo.gl/forms/wrVo1nX4Gk">advanced tools</a>, and <a href="http://goo.gl/forms/QmW0uo4n9v">visuals</a> questions are up!<br />
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Professor WatsonBen Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654330374746823837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550970508950314614.post-50976191097528229882015-12-01T04:32:00.000-05:002015-12-01T04:32:31.830-05:00Followup: can xss attacks embed hosted script?Hi folks,<br /><br />Cameron asked a great question today about the level of access a script hosted elsewhere might have when that script was called through an XSS attack. Is that allowed, he asked, since the script is not hosted on the hacked site?<br /><br />There is a web security policy called <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Same-origin_policy">same origin</a>, which is supposed to help prevent these sorts of things. Basically, it prevents a web page from gaining access to data in another web page, unless they are on the same site. <br /><br />Unfortunately it does not prevent a page at one site from embedding script it hosts in a page at a different site. This is makes XSS attacks just a bit easier, and is a tradeoff we accept for all the non-malicious benefits of embedding.<br /><br />We also mentioned the dangers of html5 and native client in this context. You can learn more about this in <a href="https://youtu.be/fzjpUqMwnoI">OWASP's video on html5</a>.<br /><br />Professor Watson Ben Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654330374746823837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550970508950314614.post-27434413356161591822015-11-23T15:35:00.000-05:002015-11-23T15:35:23.171-05:00Visitor: Joe Schram of SparktivityFolks,<br />
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We'll be visited today by Joe Schram, principal and founder of <a href="http://sparktivity.com/">Sparktivity</a>, a local software and design consultancy.<br />
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