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Tuesday March 13th 2007

1)  Project Presentation Discussion 

      A) 3rd Full Faculty Conference.

        April 20th 2007  9:30am - 4:00pm

If you present your work from this class at the conference you will receive an A on one of your projects for this class.

B)  If you publish your work you become a candidate for an A in this course.

C)  You should be preparing to present your project to the class using the 7 X 2 C's   You can present individual sections of your project at each class meeting.

The 7x2 are: 

content, context

correctness, credibility

currency, continuity

completeness, coverage

consistency, conciseness

compelling, complement

community, customization 

 

D) Work independently.

E) You should be concentrating on both projects.  Don't get stuck working on only one of your projects and leave the other for later.

F)  Use the Five W's to judge your tutorial site.

2) The layers of your tutorial project assignment.

A)   Identification (Who is who)

Remember 7 W's:

Who, What, When, Where, Why, Which, and last one is wow. (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.

 

3)   Presenters Schedule- You must give Dr. Ebrahimi the

     Make sure you write out seven criteria for the class to grade you.

4)   Search Engine Analysis (From Above)

        Please read the textbook and understand how a Search Engine works.   It is important to understand the elements of a search engine in order to analyze it.

        i.e.  Script programmed search engines can have data validation encoded into them. This validation can be done on the page and does not have to use server resources.  This makes the page faster.

5)  One of the questions on the midterm will be based on the two schools you analyzed over the last two classes.   You will have to be able to write about what the most critical issues you found on your sites were and apply them to the 7X2 C's.

 Focus on the negative things on the website.

Melvin Klerer invented a non-linear keyboard that allowed for the entering of mathematical terms. Current keyboards are linear, there can be no super or subscripting without using functions of the software you're in.

 i.e. Array X_i

Who's fault is it that mathematical terms are not on the keyboard?