Spring `96 Course Overview
- Meeting times
- Class meets Monday and Wednesday, 4:00-5:15pm in
LH102. One discussion section/lab meets Thursday, 4:40-5:30pm in
LH115/LH004, the other meets Friday, 10:10-11:00am in LH115/LH004.
(The Friday 9:05am discussion section has been cancelled due to
lack of enrollment.) Students should attend one of these discussion
sessions each week. They will be for more specific help, advice and
discussion about assignments, readings, projects, topics, etc than
can be covered in the regular classes. They may involve laboratory
sessions, meeting in the course's computer lab, as needed.
- Instructor
- Steve Kinzler
<kinzler@cs.indiana.edu>,
office LH430E,
phone 855-6999.
- Associate Instructors
- Steve DeCherrie
<dech@cs.indiana.edu>,
office LH301I, phone 855-8898
Stephen Hughes
<sthughes@cs.indiana.edu>,
office LH201H, phone 855-8898
- Office hours
- Kinzler: Monday and Friday 9:00-10:00am, and by appointment.
DeCherrie: Friday 11:00-1:00pm, and by appointment.
Hughes: Tuesday 11:00-12:00pm, and by appointment.
- Computer facilities/Lab
- Students will have use of the Burrow, a new cluster of
Sun SPARCstation 4 workstations running the
Solaris operating system with the
Common Desktop Environment in room LH004. Users of this cluster
will be allowed to run Internet servers out of their accounts,
within policy guidelines. Students will be provided with accounts
and card access to the room. Specific usage policy and restrictions
will be available then as well. Students may also make use of
other campus computing facilities, made available to all students,
for some aspects of the course.
- Prerequisites
- Students should have at least two semesters programming experience,
or its equivalent, and be comfortable working with an operating
system such as Unix or DOS. They should also have familiarity with
the Internet and the World-Wide Web, such as could be gained in
CSCI A148 Working the
World-Wide Web.
- Classes
- Students are expected to attend and participate in classes and
discussion sections, though attendance will not be monitored.
- Readings
- Readings will be regularly assigned from the two course texts:
Build a Web Site by
net.Genesis and Devra Hall from
Prima Publishing and
Learning
Perl by Randal L Schwartz from
O'Reilly & Associates. These
will frequently be supplemented by material and resources on the Web
itself and perhaps occasionally with readings on reserve at the Swain
library. Students will be responsible for all material in assigned
readings, whether or not that material is discussed in class. If you
have any questions about material not covered in class, please ask.
- Assignments
- There will be homework assignments throughout the course. Some will
involve the incremental stages of building a personal Web site.
Others may involve programming (custom or specified) or topic research
and presentation on the Web.
- Group project
- Students will participate in one large group project for much of
the course. Groups may consist of between one to four students and
students may select their own groups. They may also select the goal
of the project, with the approval of the instructor. It should
involve the creation and development of a unique Web resource of
some form.
- Exams
- There will be two exams, a midterm on 26 February in class, and a
final on Monday, 29 April from 2:45-4:45pm. No make-ups will be
given except under extreme circumstances and by permission of the
instructor before the exam.
- Academic integrity
- The Computer Science department has prepared a
statement on academic integrity
describing the obligations of students, a copy of which is
accessible from the CS home page.
All students should read this and ask us if they have any questions.
The midterm exam will count 15%, the final exam 20%, the group
project 30%, and the assignments 35%. The lowest assignment will be be
weighted half as heavily as the others when computing the final average.
Incompletes will be handled in accordance with Computer Science department
policy. In particular, incompletes will only be given to students who
have successfully completed most of the coursework, and who have an
acceptable reason for the incomplete. Unexpected difficulty with other
classes is not an acceptable reason for an incomplete.
- E-mail
- It will be expected that all students check their campus e-mail
frequently and that it is a reliable way to correspond with
students about course matters. Make sure that e-mail addressed
to you
@indiana.edu is received. You may, of course,
use e-mail to communicate with your instructors and other students.
- Newsgroup
ac.csci.a348. You should
read this daily for announcements, assignments, changes, etc. Also,
please use this newsgroup for open questions, news, discussion
participation, etc. Your questions will be answered most quickly
via the newsgroup since whoever sees them first -- the instructors
or the other students -- can reply.
- Web pages
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/classes/a348/index.html. This
will be an official source of course information and will be kept up
to date. Noteworthy changes here will be announced in the newsgroup.
This index page will also include a dated log of changes which you can
use to keep current. Readings and assignments will be posted here.
The forefront of World-Wide Web technology is advancing at a phenomenal
rate. Texts and prepared course matter become out-of-date shortly after
they are completed. Fortunately, the Web documents itself fairly well.
Therefore, a primary goal of your instructors is to teach you how to
keep abreast and informed of Web advancements and to research issues to
the depth you need. With this, you can keep up long after this course
is over.
The scope of Web advancements and innovations is expanding so fast that
one person is hard-pressed to keep up with all of them in more than a
superficial sense, including your instructors. Fortunately, we have
a diverse population of students in the course, some with considerable
expertise in some course topics or related issues. So, this course may
be unusual in the degree which the students themselves participate in
the teaching process -- whether via group work, class discussions or
solicited presentations.
Students who need any special accommodation must contact the the
instructor during the first week of class to discuss arrangements.
If you have any questions that this doesn't cover, please let us know!
<kinzler@cs.indiana.edu>
8 January 1996
CSCI A348