Class News: IT 3204 for Fall, 2006

All's Well that Ends!

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:38:43 -0500

Final grades have been entered into BANNER and should have been visible to you yesterday. (I can't tell from my account when your grades are released.) Of 21 undergraduate students who took the final exam, fourteen of you, two thirds of the class, earned course grades of A or B. Congratulations, and thank you for making this an easy class to teach. As I expected, completing all the homework was very highly correlated with earning a good grade.

You had an opportunity to supply feedback to the University on the SIR II report. Don't forget that you can also supply feedback at http://www.ratingsonline.com/index.phtml and http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/. The first site allows for a bit more detail. If you choose to do either of these, please make an effort to inform your colleagues rather than just plugging in numbers.

Possible Job Opportunity

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:20:13 -0500

Possible Job Opportunity: I have received the following email, edited slightly for brevity: I am an owner of a local graphic design / marketing firm and we are expanding our web development staff. We are very interested in interviewing students who are interested in being a challenge and would like to work in a small studio environment.

We currently need to fill a position rather quickly, however we are also growing and need to increase our staffing over the course of the next few years.

If you are interested in following up on this, send your resume directly to Ms. Amanda Sutt, asutt (at) 123shoot.com. Their Web site is http://www.123shoot.com.

Assignment 10 is available.

Sun, 26 Nov 2006 15:41:08 -0500

Assignment 10 is available. The due date is changed to December 4 to allow at least a full week of time to work on it.

Syllabus Corrections, Slides Available

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:35:32 -0500

Syllabus Corrections: Bogus dates in the syllabus have been corrected. The topic of this evening's lecture has been corrected. (We've already covered Case and Strategy.) The due date for Assignment 9 has been changed to next Monday.

Slides for November 12 are available.

Pre-class slides for November 6

Mon, 6 Nov 2006 14:48:45 -0500

Pre-class slides for November 6 are available.

Slides for November 1

Wed, 1 Nov 2006 21:31:45 -0500

Annotated slides for November 1 are available.

About On-Time Attendance

Wed, 1 Nov 2006 21:30:30 -0500

It is discourteous to your classmates to come into the classroom after the scheduled start time of class. They are presumably in class to listen, not to be interrupted by people who are habitually late.

So, you should be in class on time or expect that I will find suitable negative consequences if you are habitually late.

Slides for November 1

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:36:27 -0500

Pre-class slides for November 1 are available.

Assignment 8, Part 2

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:25:09 -0500

One of you has pointed out that there is a piece missing from Assignment 8, Part 2. Copy your XML file a second time to a8p2.xml and link your XSL style sheet to it as shown in the example at the bottom of p. 333. The link from your index page should be to a8p2.xml.

The on-line assignment has been corrected.

Grading "Backwards"

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:54:24 -0500

I have been attempting to get grading caught up. One of you has pointed out to me that feedback on the most recent assignments would be helpful for tonight's exam, so I did those first. I will then go back and pick up the two earlier assignments.

Enumerated Attribute Values

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:08:09 -0500

f I have told you to look up enumerated attribute values, see the slide entitled "Enumeration in DTDs" in the October 18 slides..

Annotated slides: October 23 and 25.

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:34:02 -0400

Annotated slides for October 23 and 25 are available on the class Web site.

Slides posted

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:04:22 -0400

Pre-class slides for this week and annotated slides from Wednesday have been posted on the class Web page.

Assignment 8 is available

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:12:49 -0400

Assignment 8 is available on the Assignments page of the class Web site.

Annotated Slides for October 17

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:26:10 -0400

The annotated slides are available in theLecture Slides area of the class page.

Assignment 7 due date

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:12:59 -0400

The due date for Assignment 7 has been changed to October 23.

Lecture slides for October 9, 16, and 18...

Sat, 14 Oct 2006 17:48:23 -0400

Annotated slides from the October 9 lecture are available. Pre-class slides for October 16 and 18 are available on the "Slides" page of the course Web site.

Assignment 7 is available...

Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:05:51 -0400

Assignment 7 has been posted on the Assignments page of the class Web.