*** On Tuesdays bring Volume 1 of Programming Easy Ways and on Thursday's bring Volume 2***

Thuesday Feb 13th 2007

1) Review of Last Class

2) Preparation for Quiz

            True/False

3) Textbook

        Run a search program. Explain how it works and compare it with your project website search program.

Pick up a unique search and place it in your assignment.

4)    Research

            Why is it important for managers to know about Search Engines?   How do Search Engines work?

5)    Demo

6)    Problems and Obstacles.

7)    Gallery

8)  Web Class Management Site

            Your Web Class Management site should be fully functional. If it is not please let Dr. Ebrahimi know and we can help you.

1) Review of Last Class

        We picked topics for and discussed class project B.

                        Analysis of C++ Tutorial System.

            Please make sure you submit your URL for Project B so we can post it on the website.  Every student should have a unique site for the project.  Please give your site to Preety so we can have it added to the class index page.

    Why do we do the tutorial on C++?  So that you're empowered to design a site and build your programming skills.

2) Preparation for Quiz

Quiz will be Thursday February 22nd 2007

We discussed the format of the quiz and reviewed last years quiz as a sample.

        Start writing questions for the quiz and posting them on your Class Management Systems.  Make the questions from the class notes and Dr. Ebrahimi's class lectures.

Each student should write 10 questions for the quiz.

Try to avoid ambiguity when writing your quiz questions.  Each student should send both their questions and their answers for their quiz questions to Dr. Ebrahimi.

The questions topics should be scattered and not concentrate on any one area that we've discussed.

3) Textbook

Chapter 1 in the textbook deals with search programs.       

Pick and run a search program from the textbook.  You should understand and be able to explain how the search works.  Take the search you've chosen and compare it with your project website search program.

There are at least 20 different search programs in the book

Pick up a unique search and place it in your assignment.

Google is in the business of searching!  The Internet is one big search.

We should call the computer:

Search is faster than trying to compute data.  For instance a computer could find the result of 7 X 8 much faster by searching for it then by adding 7 eight times.

We do the calculation once and then let the computer go and search for it.

4)    Research

Research should be verified by multiple sources. Do not rely on a single source for information.

            Why is it important for managers to know about Search Engines?   Managers should know about search engines to be able to evaluate if a search engine is working effectively or if it can be improved.

There is a Journal called JETS.

            How do Search Engines work?

5)    Demo-  You get 5 points for demonstrating something relevant to the class.

6)    Problems and Obstacles.  Does anyone have any problems??