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Thursday March 8th 2007

Midterm is going to be on March 22nd!!

Question for your project.

There are some layers:

A)   Identification (Who is who)

Remember five W's:

Who, What, When, Where, Why, and last one is woh. (It's "how" backward)

Who-  A sort of history, mission, vision, expectations, values and goals of the company.

B)   Appearance- Does the site look good?  Is it current and continuous?  Is the site compelling?

C)  Search Layer-  We should focus on this layer.  In order to be able to criticize a search program you need to be familiar with how to write a search.  Choose a search from the book and try to code it.  Dr. Ebrahimi will help you.

Your tutorial should include a search program.  Look in the book for the solutions.  We've done one type of search (a search based on If statements in an earlier class.  Take a look at the class notes for more info.

D) HTML layer- Know the ten commandments of HTML.

E) Script Layer- Know JavaScript is the most used web script.  Don't be surprised that most people do not differentiate between Java and JavaScript. The difference between the two is that Java is on the server and JavaScript is client based.   JavaScript also cannot manage files

F) Server and Database layer- CGI, Domain names, ASP

G) Privacy, Security and Ethics- The design of the site should enforce the privacy and security of the site users. Your site should be original and information should be cited where appropriate.  Content should not be abrasive.

Our goal is to meet all seven of the above criteria when building your tutorial.

You don't have to be perfect but it's preferred.

2) Midterm Information-   Some of the questions for the midterm will be based on what you've learned about search engines and web designs during class discussion.

We learned that even Ivy league schools (like Cornell) do not have a good search program. 

We tested the SE in class and the Students told Dr. Ebrahimi that the search engine on Cornell.edu was not very good.

For the next class we are going to have demos of your progress on the C++ tutorial.  Of course you don't have to have the entire site completed, but there should be enough to give the class a general idea of where you're going.

You must have the appearance of your web tutorial together before the date of the midterm!!! It does not have to be fully functional but must be on it's way.

Yale's web search turned up a picture of someone's wedding instead of the associate provost when the search term "Smith" was entered as criteria.

When searching Princeton's people search we found Abigail Smith when searching in a First Name Last name format, but when we used the format that the name was stored in the DB no results were found.

3) Comments/Questions