CPSCI 105: Explorations in Computer Science

What’s New!

May 4, 2007.

I'll be holding a special set of office hours during the Reading Period before final exams: 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. on Monday, May 7.

May 3, 2007.

The Final Project assignment has been posted. I've changed the due date to 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 10. This both gives you a week to complete the project and will allow you to incorporate your Tuesday presentation experience into your reflective essay.

Please note that Tuesday's presentation will be held in Benedict 207, not in our regular classroom.

Miss an announcement? Take a look at What’s Old! (the “What’s New!” archive).

Course Materials

• Syllabus
  • requirements
  • academic conduct
• Course and Reading Schedule
• Service Learning Prospectus (for clients)
• Final Project

Examples

• Student Websites
• Simple Table Examples
• Picking XHTML Class Names
• XHTML Attributes
• HTML Phrase Elements
• HTML Junk Example
• Examples from the Textbook

Groupwork

• Part 1 (4/17-5/1)
• Part 2 (5/1-5/08)
• Part 3 (5/8)
• Accessibility Audit Groups
• How To Create and Maintain an Audit Website
• Websites Containing Audit Documents (password protected)

Homework Assignments

• Homework 0 (due 1/18)
• Homework 1 (due 1/22)
• Homework 2 (due 1/30)
• Homework 3 (due 2/6)
• Homework 4 (due 2/8)
• Homework 5 (due 2/13)
• Homework 5a (due 2/15)
• Homework 6 (due 2/20)
• Homework 7 (now due 3/1)
• Homework 8 (due 3/1)
• Homework 9 (due 4/19)
• Homework 10 (due 4/24)
• Homework 11 (due 4/26)
• Homework 12 (due 5/1)
• Homework 13 (due before midnight on 5/1)

Labwork

• Lab 0 (1/18)
• Lab 1 (1/23)
• Lab 2 (1/25)
• Lab 3 (1/30)
• Lab 4 (2/1)
• Lab 5 (2/6)
• Lab 6 (2/8)
• Lab 7 (2/13)
• Lab 8 (2/15)
• Lab 9 (2/22)
• Lab 10 (2/27)
• Lab 11 (3/1)
• Lab 12 (3/8)
• Lab 13 (3/27)
• Lab 14 (3/29)
• Lab 15 (4/5)
• Lab 16 (4/10)
• Lab 17 (4/26)
• Lab 18 (5/1)

Resources

A Basic UNIX Tutorial

This is a good introduction to everything you need to know about UNIX for this course. (The most important sections are the ones assigned on the course and reading schedule.)

GNU Emacs Manual

This is a hypertext version of the Emacs manual. It contains everything you need to know about Emacs to use it successfully in this class (and a lot of other stuff). If you're interested in learning more about Emacs, or want to download an executable file for your personal computer, check out the GNU Emacs Homepage. (If you want to find out why a great piece of software like Emacs is free, look at the GNU Project Homepage and learn about the Free Software Foundation.)

Here are some other Emacs links that you may find useful.

• An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp
• GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual
• The very unofficial dotemacs home

Bash Reference Manual

Everything you need to know about bash (which, by the way, is another product of the GNU Project at the Free Software Foundation).

The Linux Documentation Project

Links to an enormous amount of information about Linux. Documents fall into several categories: HOWTOs (very specific help about particular subjects), guides (book-length help), FAQs (lists of Frequently Asked Questions about various topics), man pages (about specific commands), and some online Linux magazines.

W3Schools Tutorials

These brief tutorials have the nice feature of dual editing and rendering panes in each window that allow you to experiment with markup or style code and easily see the result.

• XHTML tutorial
• HTML tutorial
• CSS tutorial

W3C Reference Documents

These are the official specifications of the three languages we've been using in class:

• XHTML 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
• HTML 4.01 Specification
• Cascading Style Sheets, level 2

Even though it's only currently a draft specification, the CSS validator is using the following by default:

• Cascading Style Sheets, level 2, revision 1 (CSS 2.1 Specification)

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