BAIN MUSC 540
Projects in Computer Music

Learning Web App Development

Links for my computer music students

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1. Documentation
   • Courouble, DevDocs
     HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc. documentation in a fast, organized and searchable interface
2. Introduction to Mobile Friendly Web Design
   • Jenkov, Responsive Mobile Friendly Web Design {Jenkov.com}
   • Frost, Creating a Mobile-First Responsive Web Design {html5rocks.com}
   • See also: Learning Bootstrap
3. HTML
   • Reference
     • W3Schools (W3S), HTML Element Reference {W3S}
   • Tutorials
     • Jenkov
       • HTML5 Tutorial {Jenkov.com}
       • HTML4 Tutorial {Jenkov.com}
     • W3Schools, HTML(5) Tutorial {W3S}
   • WYSIWYG Editor
     • BlueGriffon {BlueGriffon.org}
4. CSS
   • Reference
     • W3Schools, CSS Reference {W3S}
   • Tutorials
     • Jenkov, CSS Tutorial {Jenkov.com}
     • Splashpress Media, CSS Basics {CSSBasics.com}
     • W3Schools CSS Tutorial {W3S}
5. JavaScript
   • Reference
     • W3Schools, JavaScript and HTML DOM Reference {W3S}
       • Article: Chris Coyier, What is the DOM? {CSS-Tricks}
   • Tutorials
     • W3Schools, JavaScript Tutorial {W3S}
   • Online Editors
     • CodePen: Front End Developer Playground & Code Editor {CodePen.io}
     • JSFiddle {JSFiddle.net}
   • Books
     • See: O'Reilly JavaScript Books {O'Reilly}
6. jQuery & jQuery Mobile – See Learning jQuery & jQuery Mobile
   • jQuery
     • Tutorial
       • Jenkov, jQuery Tutorial {Jenkov.coml}
   • jQuery Mobile
     • Tutorial
       • jQuery Mobile Tutorial {W3Schools}
       • Demos
7. Web Audio - See Learning Web Audio
8. Graphics
   • SVG: See Learning SVG
   • HTML5 Canvas
     • Tutorials
       • Jenkov, HTML5 Canvas {Jenkov.com}
       • Ian Elliot, A Programmer's Guide to Canvas
   • WebGL {WP}
     • Chrome Experiments
9. Accessibility
   • Brenda Barron, How To Make Your Website Accessible to People with Disabilities {WhoIsHostingThis.com}
   • Google, Web Accessibility {Udacity}
     • Web Fundamentals > Accessibility {Google}
   • W3C, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 {W3C}
10. Google Developers
    • Google Developers
    • Web Fundamentals
    • Google Hosted Libraries
11. Tools
    • HTML Color Picker
    • px to em

MOOC

Web Development and Design for Artists {Kadenze}

Bibliography

Crockford, Douglas. 2008. JavaScript: The Good Parts: Unearthing the Excellence in JavaScript. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media.

Firtman, Maximiliano. 2012. jQuery Mobile: Up and Running Using HTML5 to Design Web Apps for Tablets and Smartphone. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media.

Flanagan, David. 2011. JavaScript: The Definitive Guide: Activate Your Web Pages, 6th ed. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media.

Hadlock, Kris. 2012. jQuery Mobile: Develop and Design. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press.

MacDonald, Matthew. 2011. HTML5: The Missing Manual. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media.

McFarland, David Sawyer. 2009. CSS: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media.

_______________________. 2011. JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media.

Stark, Jonathan. 2010. Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript: Making App Store Apps Without Objective-C or Cocoa. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly.

Updated: April 28, 2019