CS 100 :: Spring 2024 :: In-Class Links

This is where Dave will be posting links to content used within the lectures and assignments.

A † indicates that it was not shown in class, but you may want to check it out if you're interested.

Lecture 14 (Tuesday June 25, 2024)

• Join the VEVOX session
  https://vevox.app/#/m/442195685
• W3 Schools (CSS)
  https://www.w3schools.com/css/
• CSS Validator
  https://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
• Google Fonts
  https://fonts.google.com/knowledge
• Font Fallbacks
  https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_font_fallbacks.asp

Lecture 13 (Thursday June 20, 2024)

• Join the VEVOX session
  https://vevox.app/#/m/430701016
• Recent news item: French Court orders Google (and others) to Poison DNS
  news item

Lecture 12 (Tuesday June 18, 2024)

• Join the VEVOX session
  https://vevox.app/#/m/471547912
• For Dave to cut & paste: I ❤️ Beyoncé!
• W3 Schools (HTML)
  https://www.w3schools.com/html/
• HTML Validator
  https://validator.w3.org/
• Online Hex Editor
  https://hexed.it

Lecture 11 (Thursday June 13, 2024)

• Join the VEVOX session
  https://vevox.app/#/m/441010011
• What HTTP header is my browser sending?
  https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-http-headers-is-my-browser-sending

Lecture 10 (Tuesday June 11, 2024)

• Join the VEVOX session
  https://vevox.app/#/m/423031535
• How to write a postcard
  https://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Postcard

Assignment 02

• Large (90MB) image:
  mona.jpg
• website to compress an image to a target size:
  https://watermarkly.com/how-to-compress-an-image/

Lecture 09 (Thursday June 6, 2024)

• Join the VEVOX session
  https://vevox.app/#/m/440280287
• Play the Oregon Trail†:
  https://www.scullinsteel.com/apple2/#oregon_trail_1

Lecture 08 (Tuesday June 4, 2024)

• Join the VEVOX session
  https://vevox.app/#/m/445756286

Lecture 07 (Thursday May 30, 2024)

• Join the VEVOX session
  https://vevox.app/#/m/410792451
• Music Spectrum Display:
  YouTube

Lecture 06 (Tuesday May 28, 2024)

• Join the VEVOX session
  https://vevox.app/#/m/490576249
• Hearing Test Tone Generator:
  https://onlinetonegenerator.com/hearingtest.html
• Wagon Wheel Effect (with a plane propellor): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagon-wheel_effect

Lecture 05 (Thursday May 23, 2024)

• Join the VEVOX session
  https://vevox.app/#/m/441231331
• Scene from the movie The Martian:
  YouTube
  Fun retro fact! The Martion scene mentions the game: Leather Goddesses of Phobos from 1986. You can play it online here†.
• Example of an annoying URL with a space in it (note the %20 and how a space in ASCII is 0x20):
  https://student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs100/links/this%20URL%20has%20spaces%20in%20it.txt
• Unicode Emoji list:
  https://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-list.html
• xkcd joke on combining emojis†:
  https://xkcd.com/1813/
• Look up your Waterloo faculty colour by Hex Code†!
  https://uwaterloo.ca/brand/how-express-our-brand/colour
• Interactive example of a vector graphic:
  https://www.desmos.com/calculator/cahqdxeshd

Lecture 04 (Thursday May 16, 2024)

• Join the VEVOX session
  https://vevox.app/#/m/426180528
• (Not course related, but something for our Aviation students based on a conversation I overheard)
  Malcolm Gladwell's podcast on the "Captain's Voice" pilots use:
  YouTube

Lecture 03 (Tuesday May 14, 2024)

• Join the VEVOX session
  https://vevox.app/#/m/489534935
• Interactive Graph Colouring†
  1. https://d3gt.com/unit.html?graph-coloring
  2. https://d3gt.com/unit.html?k-colorable
• Interactive Logic Puzzle†
  https://www.ahapuzzles.com/logic/logic-puzzles/at-the-pizzeria/
  (this is just for fun... you won't have to complete logic puzzles)

Lecture 02 (Thursday May 9, 2024)

• Join the VEVOX session
  https://vevox.app/#/m/423368245
• Did you mean: recursion
  https://www.google.com/search?q=recursion
• David Hasselhoff recursion† (do NOT click on this!!! you were warned...)
  hasselhoff-recursion.gif
• Hungarian Quick Sort Dance†
  YouTube
• SpongeBob colouring pages
  SpongeBob

Lecture 01 (Tuesday May 7, 2024)

• Course Outline:
  https://outline.uwaterloo.ca/view/nm37qf
• Play a game with Dave on Board Game Arena (Dave's username: Dave Tompkins)
  boardgamearena.com
  (but only if you're keen -- there are no "bonus" / participation points)
• Join the VEVOX session
  https://vevox.app/#/m/444237090

Assignment 0

• The secret word is: abracadabra
• The secret video is: here