Philip Likens

WDIM Instructor

Information

Office: Room #325
Phone: 214.693.7098
Email: plikens () aii.edu

Winter 2012 Schedule

Activity	Day	Time	Location
Off Campus	Mon	n/a	n/a
Office Hours / Meetings	Tues	11:00-20:00	325
Game Lab (All students welcome)	Wed	11:00-13:00	539
Special Topics / Game Design 1	Wed	13:00-17:00	539
Intro to Server Side Languages	Thur	08:00-12:00	320
Office Hour	Thur	12:00-13:00	325
Advanced Server Side Languages	Thur	13:00-17:00	425
Office Hours / Meetings	Fri	08:00-14:00	325

Important Documents

Classroom Rules - Classroom_Rules.pdf
Commenting Code - Commenting_Code.pdf
Flowcharting - Flowcharting.pdf

Hosting / Domains

I suggest registering your domain names through http://GoDaddy.com.

For hosting I would recommend using one of the following:

Helpful Sites

Color Schemes: http://colorschemedesigner.com
Learning About the World: http://ted.com/
Learning About Business: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/
Learning Web Technologies: http://w3schools.com
Learning JavaScript: http://deptof.com/javascript/
Learning MySQL: http://mysql.com
Learning PHP: http://php.net
Validating XHTML and CSS: http://validator.w3.org/unicorn/

Important Media

Simply JavaScript: The Three Layers of the Web By Kevin Yank
Usability Terms by Human Factors International
The Importance of Rest for Developers By David Heinemeier Hansson
Under-do Your Competition by David Heinemeier Hansson
Can you train yourself to be more creative? by Jeff Hawkins
Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications by Jesse James Garrett
Fundamental Principles of Entrepreneurship by Reid Hoffman

Get Involved

D-Flex: http://www.d-flex.org/
Dallas Society of Visual Communication: http://dsvc.org
Dallas Tech Happy Hour: http://dallastechhappyhour.com
Natural User Interface Group: http://nuigroup.com
Professional Social Networking: http://linkedin.com
Tweeting: http://twitter.com