Week 26 Vocab and Terminology

Class Hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Cronin
Mr. Bohmann

Quizzes on Friday morning. 15% of your grade are the quizzes, typically 9 new, 1 review, and 1 extra credit question from our articles.

This years Sat / Act prep work comes from “100 Most Common SAT Words” by Quizlet.  As we are using their list to pull from you are able to use their free study tools.  Make a free account so you add the new words to your Study Bank.  As the weeks go by and you are studying from this ever-growing word bank, you will find that your vocabulary (speaking and retention) has improved.

The weekly latin root comes from “42 Most Common Latin Roots”.

Sat / Act prep

• Empathy – sharing of feelings. “His friend showed empathy when he was dumped by his girlfriend.”
• Emulate – follow an example. “We should all emulate the work ethic of the students earning A’s.”
• Enervating – tiring, weakening. “The enervating heat of the sun can hardly be avoided in the desert.”

Latin Root of the week

• lumin – light, shine; source. “Bioluminescence is the production and emission of light by a living organism.” 

Typography

• Kinetic typography – the technical name for “moving text” – is an animation technique mixing motion and text.

Web Design

• JavaScript is a Web focused programming language that builds interactivity on the Web. It is part of the Trinity of Front End Web Design along with HTML and CSS. JavaScript has nothing to do with Java – a completely different language.
• External JavaScript files are linked to HTML through the <script> tag, using the src attribute.
• Conditional Statements in programming allow the code to do something based on a condition – if this, do this. A conditional statement we used was an if statement that tested the counting variable value in our rotating gallery project.
• In programming a variable is a container of information. There are many different types of information that can be stored in a variable:
  • string – “123Abc”
  • integer – 4
  • float – 3.14
  • boolean – true or false
• The Document Object Model (DOM) allows Web Developers to access anything in an HTML document from the JavaScript.
• getElementById() is a method used to connect JavaScript to an HTML element with a specific Id. Once connected, you can change and adjust the element programmatically (like change the src attribute over time in our gallery).
• A function in programming is a named section of your code that does something specific. This function is first defined, and then can be called over and over without having to re-write the function which saves programmers time.
• { and } (a type of bracket) are frequently used in JavaScript, and they have to be balanced. If your program has 5 {‘s, it will need 5 }’s or the code will throw and error and likely not behave as you intend it to.
• variableName++ will increase a variable by 1. variableName– will decrease a variable by 1.
• window.onload=function(){ code goes here } is an anonymous function (a function with no name) which will wait until the webpage has loaded before running. Wrapping our JavaScript with this anonymous function is a useful way of delaying the JavaScript from running until the entire page has loaded.
• HTML input type of “text” will create a text field to collect user input.
• HTML input type of “password” will create a text field to collect user input and be masked with symbols instead of your input. This is very low level security, but effective.
• window.location.href allows JavaScript to change the location of the browser – you can change what the users sees to anything you wish.
• console.log() allows Web Developers to test their code by outputting to the console of the web browser. This will not show up on the screen, and is used for development and testing. This is similar to “Print String” in Blueprints of Unreal Engine.
• Event Listeners in JavaScript will let the program listen for an “event”, be it a click, keyboard event, etc. When this event “happens”, it will initiate a function to run. For example we ran our username and password project by clicking a button that was listening for the “click” event.