• Introduction
• Introduction to HTML

• History of the Internet
• Internet
• HTML

Komodo Edit

• Internet technologies (pdf)
• Introduction to CSS

CSS: example 1, example 2, example3, example 4

• File formats and compression (pdf)
• Introduction to Javascript

Format Descriptions for Sound
Javascript: example 1

• Music distribution (pdf)
• Copyright issues

• Javascript: example 2
• Loops: example 3a, example 3b, example 3c, example 3d
• Functions/methods: example 4a, example 4b, example 4c, example4d
• Built-in functions: example 5a
  
  

• No class (learn Javascript!)

• Music discovery (pdf)

Javascript: example 5b

• Music discovery tools (pdf)

• Andrew Hankinson: Digital Document Retrieval
• Greg Burlet: Neon.js
• Gabriel Vigliensoni: Internet Radio / Music Recommendation
• Jason Hockman: Breakscience

• Services (pdf)
  • for artists
  • for advertisers
  • metrics
• Mid-term examination

API examples:

• Last.fm
• Last.fm & Echonest: Muiscbrainz ID
• Last.fm & Echonest: Top artists by country
• Last.fm mashups
  
  

• Web service (pdf)

JSON viewers (Safari, Firefox, Chrome)
Test with this: http://jsonview.com/example.json
API examples:Twitter, & Goolge maps

• Musicmetric example: jQmusicMetric1.html
• Musicmetric with jqPlot: jQmusicMetric2.html
• Musicmetric with jqPlot & dates: jQmusicMetric3.html
• Musicmetric with jqPlot & dates & multiple series: jQmusicMetric4.html

• Making music (pdf)
• Music scores (pdf)
• Music Libraries
• Music information retrieval

• Musicmetric Events: jQmusicMetricEvents.html
• Musicmetric Social: jQmusicMetricCities.html
• Musicmetric Charts: jQmusicMetricChart0.html jQmusicMetricChartPixError.html

• Final project presentation
• Final examination

Final project proposal due

Assignment #1 (Due 09/13) 5%

• Build a simple homepage on a local machine (index.html):
  • Basic personal info
  • Links to your classes
  • Place to post your assignments (ideally make and link to another file: mumt301.html)
• Upload your home page to www.music.mcgill.ca (sftp)
• Login to www.music.mcgill.ca (ssh)
• From your home directory, got the subdirectory called: public_html (cd public_html)
• Edit the html file: index.html (pico index.html)

Mini assignement A (Due 9/20) 3% (email me the results)

• Find the farthest educational or government website on the Internet from Montreal. Extra bonus point for finding the furthest point among your classmates (1%).
• Find the download and upload bandwidth at your home and at your favourite coffee shop (or a library). Specify where you took the measurment
• Upload via ftp a large file (~10MB, a long song) on the music.mcgill.ca server and time the download time to your home (indicate the file size)

Assignment #2 (Due 9/27) 5%

• Create two fan pages of your favourite musicians linked from your home page:
  • One quite well known
  • One not well known (preferably non-Western musician)
• They should contain:
• Biography
• Discography
• Links to images
• Links to audio
• Links to video
• Links to other related sites (especailly non-English sites)
• A link back to your home page
• They should look good
• Try to make them look good in different browsers, at different window widths, and even on mobile devices

Mini assignment B with BONUS points (Due 10/04 ) 2% (email me your ranking)

• Rank the fan pages of your classmates (excluding your own) per person (1%)
• If you're in the top 5 of the aggregate of your classmates' rankings you get 1%

Assignment #3 (Due 10/18) 5%

Make comarisons of different lossy compression methods

• Use two different musical sources of one minute each (from CD or DVD, i.e., at least 16bit/44.1kHz)
• Compress the source files (AIFF or WAV) into different formats (including MP3, AAC, Ogg/Vorbis) at different bitrates
• Make at least ten different output files for each source
• Use HTML Table to show and be able to hear the results on a web page (e.g.: http://www.nch.com.au/acm/), i.e., all the files need to be converted to WAV files
• For each file, indicate the compression method, bitrate, and the file size

Assignment #4 (Due 11/08) 5%

• Get Echonest API key
• Create a webpage, where user can enter an artist's name then display dynamically various information about that artist; something like this.

• Create a mashup webpage using APIs from at least two different sources (2% bonus points if you plot graphs)
• Final project proposal (1–2 pages with partial bibliography, inlcude sub goals)
  • Final project ideas

Assignment #6 (Due 11/29) 5%

• Final project presentation (power-point style presentation of what you plan to do; 5 min)

Final project (Due 12/13) 30%

• Software with description (1–2 pages)
• Music project with description (2–3 pages)
• Maximum of two people per group

or

• Research paper (4–6 pages)