The Diary of HacKSU

Intro to Programming with Javascript

This week at hacksu (hacksu.cs.kent.edu) I taught simple programming concepts in javascript.

What you’ll learn:

• variables
• comments
• the console

Jokes from 2014–2015

For HacKSU, our student organization at Kent State University, we post weekly emails during the school year to our members to inform them of the weekly topic. At the end of each week’s email, we work hard to include a computer science joke. We wanted to share these jokes with you.

Playing with Web Fonts

Last week at HacKSU we played around with creating/importing new web fonts and then played with some fun effects. We used two different methods of getting new fonts: we downloaded one from dafont.com and we got another from Google Fonts. Here’s how:

Intro to AngularJS

This week, HacKSU talked about Angular. Angular is a cool Javascript framework that punches a lot of power into your front end. Angular web apps are single pages, so you never have to refresh to submit or anything, creating a faster and more desktop application like experience.

D3: Data Binding and SVG Manipulation

This week we went over D3, a data visualization library. We first did some cool data binding, and then some animations using SVGs, or Scalable Vector Graphics. Below are the two files we worked with, commented heavily with explanations. Copy and paste these into…