March 27 - Howdy! If you have logged onto Oncourse this morning you may have noticed another quiz. Yup you now have a Month of March pop quiz. So go to Oncourse and take it. You may take it as many times as you like - I will use the highest grade. It is only 3 questions so it shouldn't take you very long. It is testing your ability to read and comprehend what is on this website. :) I will take the test down on Saturday morning and post your grades on Oncourse then. In the meantime, have fun with your html work!! -Margaret

March 26 - IT'S DONE!!! Yes, my patient students your grades are up!! At least that is what I am hoping. If you do not see a grade for something that you have done, let me know and we can solve this problem together!!

BTW (By The Way) your pages are looking good! And your final project ideas are good too - make sure you check your comments on this one.

I am going to clean-up our class roster. In other words, if there is no link to your website on the class roster I'm taking your name down.

I have noticed that some of your links don't always work. Ah me, but that is a constant thorn in the side of web work. Please check your links and work so that you will get the full credit for your work when we go to grade. Many of you missed points due to no links or not having done your STAIR. Make sure you get your assignment right and the links work and you will do very well. And always, always, always check your work once it is up on the Web. -Margaret

March 24 - Hello!! I am in the lab today with Ms. Ahnyka Spain and we are discussing Emacs!!! Ah yes, many of you will feel that it is the bane if your existence. I did too when I first started but now I love it for some good old quick editing.

Ok, here are some guidelines that I used for myself in teaching myself Emacs so you can follow them too or make up your own to suit your learning style:

1. For this class I would suggest that first create your work in Notepad and then edit your work using Emacs once it is posted to your site. That way you can get your creativity going without worrying about another set of commands/codes and you can play with Emacs without the stress of creating.
2. Right now I am editing your Information Central page using Emacs. Why? Well if I didn't I would have had to have edited this work on my home computer (60 miles away right now - Yikes!) and then log into the Internet and ftp the file over to the phoenix server. Whew what a lot of work!! But with Emacs, all I do is log into the Internet, open this page in Emacs and away I go! Right Ahnyka? Sure she said. (What a trooper!)
3. BIG NOTE!! When you are in Emacs and suddenly all of what you are typing is going wrong and Emacs is just doing crazy things cause you typed in the wrong commands and now it is asking you for your bloodtype what do you do?!?! Simple. Type Ctrl-g. That gets you back to working on your document and you bet I've done that many times!
4. I would suggest that you don't try to learn all of Emacs right away. Just make sure by the end of this class you can get in and out of Emacs and do some simple editing like typing rambling sentences like I am right now and you will be doing well. Breathe deep. You will get this, just practice, practice, practice!

March 22 - Hello and welcome back! I had a GREAT vacation and I hope you all did too. Ok, now down to business:

1. Some of you have been asking who do you submit the current and future assignments to. Easy! All you do from now on is put your asssignments on the Web. Brian and I will get to them to grade.
2. Speaking of grades...yup, we're beind. I am hoping to get the grades for your final project proposals and resumes up on this Satuurday.
3. BIG CHANGE FOR YOUR FINAL!! The CS department really wants you all to have Emacs abilities. So your final exam is going to be changed to incorporate Emacs. Don't worry about it now as I am still working on it but do know that I will make for you an easier final - YES! - since you will need to be working on your Emacs skills.
4. In light of the previous list line, please all of you now go to your Emacs tutorial. How do you get there? Simple! Telnet in using Hummingbird (IUWARE) software (Emacs HATES Windows Telnet so DON'T use it.) At your UNIX prompt type emacs and hit return. You will find yourself at the Emacs menu. Read the top lines and you will see that getting to the tutorial means you type Ctrl-h t. When in Emacs, C always means Ctrl key. Take your time doing this and please go through the whole thing. It will help you get an A and help you in future CS classes.

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March 5 - Hello! I hope you all had a good weekend. Last week was great for me. My good friend at the Computer Science Department, Jennifer Stewart, gave birth to a baby girl on my birthday!! And, another friend and person you all know, Scott Orr, got a new baby daughter last week as well! Both girls are doing fine. :)

I hope you all are looking at the code files under Notes in Class FAQs and Notes. That will give you a lot of examples of good HTML coding.

Lab this Saturday? I won't be there as I will be in Albuquerque, NM. Yes you can of course continue to email me - and HOPEFULLY - I will be able to read it. As far as I know, Thursday night lab is still on this week. Labs will resume after Spring Break. Hope yours is a good one. -Margaret

AMENDED March 3 AMENDED - Hello and welcome to March! It is said that March "comes in like a lion." I'm sure that co uld be made to reference my name but I'm just not sure how right now. :)

A few things you need to know about the past and upcoming assignment:

1. From here on, the most important place you will constantly be referring to on this site is the Notes section in the Class FAQs and Notes. The Notes section will show you the finished document using HTML AND the HTML coding in the same- named text document. What you say? Just go to the Notes section and start looking around. I found that to be the most helpful section when I took this class.
2. Many of you will begin your adventure into HTML with the resume assignment. Please, please, please do not fret about how the assignment looks. I am not expecting masterpieces here. Please just do what you are supposed to do according to the assignment (in other words, read it and do what it says) and make your resume easy to read and you will do fine. Just look at mine. My resume is NOT fancy but it fulfilled all of the requirements and that is all it needed to do. You can see it at resume .html.
3. From here on in your STAIRs can all be in text format. In other words you do NOT have to make your STAIRs html documents. If you want to, go ahead, but it is absolutely not necessary so you can save yourself the time.
4. Many of you have complained about the server not working properly. Ah the joys of computers!! I sympathize. Please keep working to get your proposal on the server and everything will be fine.
5. Don't forget that you can create your own banner graphics on the web by going to www. flamingtext.com. This is what I used when I made the banner for my resume and I go there a lot for banners in general. You can yes, of course, go to other sites on the web that do the same thing and that is fine too. JUST REMEMBER TO CREDIT THEM!!

Special thanks to Leanne Burrow, Andy Harris, Bob Molnar, Paula Trefun, and Jennifer Stewart for their input, inspiration, content, code, lessons, and giving me the opportunity to boldly going where I have never gone before. Thanks! - Margaret Lion

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