COP4813 Software Tools


COP4813 Software Tools

 

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HTML and Web Editors

 

Microsoft Expression Web - This is available at https://www.dreamspark.com/ freely to all students. It is a full featured web editing environment.

 

Dreamweaver - Pretty much the standard for web publishing http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver.html

 

Notepad++ - Just download it, incredibly useful. http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ 

 

 

Programming Tools

 

FireBug for FireFox - This is one of 2 must-have tools you need for doing any level of web development. https://getfirebug.com/ 

 

Web Developer for FireFox - This is part of what I use to grade your assignment, three green checkmarks in the upper left corner tells me that you did everything correctly. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/web-developer/ 

 

JSFiddle - This is a cool online Javascript editor that allows you to try out code in a secure environment before using in your pages. http://jsfiddle.net/ 

 

Construct 2 - This great tool allows you to easily create HTML5 games. The free version has great capability and it produces clean, easy to read code (or at least it should be easy to read once you complete this course) - http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/07/new-programming-jargon.html 

 

http://www.freeformatter.com/  - A collection of tools that can be used to validate pretty much anything.

 

Online Validation Tools

 

http://html5.validator.nu/ - A nice and easy to use HTML 5 validator.

 

http://achecker.ca/checker/index.php - Checks ADA Compliance.

 

http://validator.w3.org/ - Markup validation service from w3c.

 

Web Sites for Developers

 

http://sixrevisions.com/  - All about web design and programming

 

http://stackoverflow.com/ - This is the source for all good questions and answers.

 

http://www.w3schools.com/ - Tutorials and references - am must visit site