[web2py] Re: need teaching advice (JS+jQuery)

2013-04-06 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
This is still useful, the class is 10 weeks long. This is the best advice I got so far! Massimo On Saturday, 6 April 2013 12:53:03 UTC-5, Chris May wrote: > > Your date has passed, so I don't know how useful this will be, but when I > introduce people to jQuery, I usually start with fun, gimmic

[web2py] Re: need teaching advice (JS+jQuery)

2013-04-06 Thread Chris May
Your date has passed, so I don't know how useful this will be, but when I introduce people to jQuery, I usually start with fun, gimmicky things, like changing all the images in a web page to photos of cats: jQuery('img').each(function() {var my = jQuery(this); my.attr('src','http://www.placekit

[web2py] Re: need teaching advice (JS+jQuery)

2013-04-06 Thread Chris May
On Wednesday, April 3, 2013 3:10:23 PM UTC-4, Derek wrote: > > Flickr, Panaramio, RSS to JSON (http://ejohn.org/projects/rss2json/) > Yahoo YQL (http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/guide/response.html), Twitter, > Salesforce.com... > > One thing that bugs me is that jQuery returns jQuery objects not

[web2py] Re: need teaching advice (JS+jQuery)

2013-04-06 Thread Christian Foster Howes
i was shown a demo recently of a project that pulled a bunch of data from a server into local storage (using HTML 5 local storage stuffs in modern browsers) and then doing some pretty nifty visualization in the browser. is use of local storage too server like for this class? On Wednesday, Apri

[web2py] Re: need teaching advice (JS+jQuery)

2013-04-03 Thread Limedrop
What about the google maps jQuery plugin? http://www.pittss.lv/jquery/gomap/solutions.php On Thursday, April 4, 2013 6:47:15 AM UTC+13, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > Tomorrow I am starting teach a new class. I did not create the class, it > was assigned to me. The class is for undergraduate stude

[web2py] Re: need teaching advice (JS+jQuery)

2013-04-03 Thread Derek
Flickr, Panaramio, RSS to JSON (http://ejohn.org/projects/rss2json/) Yahoo YQL (http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/guide/response.html), Twitter, Salesforce.com... One thing that bugs me is that jQuery returns jQuery objects not dom objects, so certain things you want to do just don't work if you t

[web2py] Re: need teaching advice (JS+jQuery)

2013-04-03 Thread Cliff Kachinske
http://jqueryui.com/tabs/ On Wednesday, April 3, 2013 1:47:15 PM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > Tomorrow I am starting teach a new class. I did not create the class, it > was assigned to me. The class is for undergraduate students who have little > or no programming experience but know HTML