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Node.js API Tutorial: Build a Read-Only Course Endpoint

Web Development Learning Series — Part 7 of 10 · Advanced A backend gives a web application a place to apply trusted rules and deliver data. In this lesson, create a small read-only course API using Node.js and its built-in HTTP module. Keeping the first endpoint simple makes routing and response behavior easier to understand. Use a currently supported Node.js release. Save the code as server.mjs so its module syntax is explicit. This demonstration has no authentication, database, or write route; it is a local learning server.

Applications of Multimedia: Education, Business and More

Multimedia finds its application in various areas including, but not limited to,  advertisements, art, education, entertainment, engineering, medicine, mathematics,  business, scientific research and spatial, temporal applications.   A few application areas of multimedia are listed below: Creative industries   C reative industries use multimedia for a variety of purposes ranging from  fine arts, to entertainment, to commercial art, to journalism, to media and software services provided for any of the industries listed below. An individual multimedia  designer may cover the spectrum throughout their career. Request for their skills  range from technical, to analytical and to creative.  Commercial Much of the electronic old and new media utilized by commercial arti...

Video in Multimedia: Formats, Compression and Captions

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Video in multimedia combines a sequence of images with optional sound to show movement, demonstrations and stories. For a web lesson, the practical choices are the file format, compression, dimensions and accessible playback. Start with what the learner must see, then choose the smallest file that preserves those details. Analog and digital video Analog video represents pictures through a continuously varying signal. Digital video stores encoded image and audio data that software can edit, transmit and play. A phone recording is a useful starting point for a short lesson: record a clear demonstration, remove unnecessary footage and export a copy for web delivery. Container vs codec A container packages video, audio and metadata into a file. A codec encodes and decodes a media stream. MP4 and WebM are examples of containers; the file extension alone does not tell you which codec is inside. Check the actual container and codecs when a file fails to play. See MDN’s media container guide ....

Audio in Multimedia: Recording, Formats and Accessibility

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Sound-Audio-Introduction:          Sound is perhaps the most important element of multimedia. It is meaningful “speech” in any language, from a whisper to a scream.          It can provide the listening pleasure of music, the startling accent of special effects or the ambience of a mood setting background.          Sound is the terminology used in the analog form, and the digitized form of sound is called as audio .      Power of Sound:          When something vibrates in the air is moving back and forth it creates wave of pressure. These waves spread like ripples from pebble tossed into a still pool and when it reaches the eardrums, ...

Animation in Multimedia: Keyframes, Timing and Examples

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  What is Animation? •           Animation is any thing that moves on your screen like a    cartoon character. •           It is the visual art of creating the illusion of motion   through the successive display of still images with   slightly perceptible changes in positioning of images. •           Animation is the illusion of movement. •           Animating = making something appear to move that doesn’t move itself •           Animation = a motion picture made from a series of drawings simulating motion by means of slight progressive changes in the drawings •       ...

Hypertext vs Hypermedia: Differences and HTML Examples

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Text component in multimedia and system design Hypermedia: Multimedia is the combination of text, graphic, and audio elements into a single collection or presentation becomes interactive multimedia when you give the user some control over what information is viewed and when it is viewed. Interactive multimedia becomes hypermedia when its designer provides a structure of linked elements through which a user can navigate and interact. When a hypermedia project includes large amounts of text or symbolic content, this content can be indexed and its element then linked together to afford rapid electronic retrieval of the associated information.   Hypertext : When text is stored in a computer instead of on printed pages the computer’s powerful processing capabilities can ...