CISC 1100 Lab 2

Lab 2
Due November 25, 2013, 11:59pm

For your second lab assignment, you are to work with HTML and with Alice.

HTML forms
Create a web form using the HTML commands in our handout. The form must use the action "http://storm.cis.fordham.edu/leeds/email.php" and must contain:

A textbox
Two sets of radio buttons (each set will correspond to a different name)
Two sets of check boxes (each set will correspond to a different name, remember to place a [] after each name.)
A submit button

You must place your form in the body of a web page. You can start with the HTML used here.

Alice program
Create an animation using Alice. This animation should take at least two hours to construct and must contain:

At least two characters/objects (you can have many more, but you must have at least two)
At least two new methods that you create and use
Use of a method acting on a sub-part of an object --- for example, rotate a character's arm
Use of a loop
Use of information from a function

To hand in this assignment, e-mail me the HTML and the Alice animation file My e-mail is:

Clarifications

Forms:

A working form will enable you to enter text, and selections from radio buttons and checkboxes. After pressing the button for submission, the form will direct you to a new page appearing similar to the "INVALIDMAIL" page below. This page is produced by specifying the action "http://storm.cis.fordham.edu/leeds/email.php" in the initial <form ...> tag.


Your form	Result of pressing "Submit"

You are to send me your HTML for the web page containing your form. Unlike in Lab 1, there is no requirement for a unifying theme for the form — it only requires the elements listed above.

Alice program:

As stated above, the Alice animation you create should take you at least two hours to create and must contain the programming elements listed above. Those elements are what I will grade. You are to submit to me the file created by Alice ending with .a2w

Beyond this, I recommend you try to use the objects, methods, and functions to tell a visual story. Perhaps a rabbit and a wizard battle each other in a field, or two iceskaters have a contest on a frozen lake. This approach should make it more entertaining for you and for me. This is a suggestion, not a requirement.

As a guideline, I also would expect that your animation uses at least 20 lines of methods/programming statements and lasts for at least 1-2 minutes. I do not intend these guidelines to be strict requirements. For example, you could spend two hours determining how to make a wizard walk in the most realistic manner (rather than just sliding in one direction — completely natural walking is a rather tricky thing to do in Alice). In this case, the animation may take 1 minute for me to run, but I will see you have carefully chosen very specific extra arguments across a set of perhaps 10 methods that make the animation look particularly nice.

To repeat: I will grade the animation based on the elements at the top of this page ... but I do want you to spend at least two hours making some sort of interesting animation.