Fall 2010
Assignment - Week 1, Monday, Aug 30
Due 11:59 PM, Sunday, Sep 5
Key Terms
News
Tutorial 1 - Developing a Web Page
Carefully read this page, and all other pages for this week, like News, HTML myself, and Strategy for editing HTML. Then read everything again. Ask for help, don't stay confused.
This is a graded assignment. You will:
1). agree to HTML myself
2). participate in BlackBoard Discussions
3). complete your first webpage -- helloWorld.html
4). Setup your web space on Tulane's CPST WebServer
5). FTP your first webpage -- copy your HelloWorld web page to your website on Tulane's CPST WebServer
Readings from the Text
It would be great if you already have the textbook. In which case, you should already be reading Tutorial 1. Tutorials are the same as chapters in most books. We have an excellent textbook. Each Tutorial contains all the detailed information needed to complete assignments, in our case, build WebSites. Each chapter ends with four (4) Case Problems. Each of your WebSite Assignments will be chosen from one of the 4 Case Problems. All data files needed to complete Assignments are provided on BlackBoard's Course Materials attached to a message titled "Data Files for Students. Each Tutorial has examples of the HTML required by assignments. It should be your habit, while reading the textbook, to write HTML yourself as instructed in the text.
If you have NOT received your textbook yet, you can still complete everything required for the HelloWorld assignment explained below.
Tutorial 1 is fundamental to your success in our class. You cannot afford to fall behind before we start. We will continue working in Tutorial 1 through next week. You can look ahead to Case Problem 4 ... which will be your next assignment.
Grading Rubric -- every Assignment will have a Grading Rurbic
Item# Points - description
- 15 points - BlackBoard Discussions for Week 1.
- 15 points - Your HelloWorld WebPage as described below -- your first WebPage.
30 points - TOTAL
BlackBoard Discussions
15 Points Maximum
There are seven (7) new BlackBoard discussions setup in the Discussion Board section of BlackBoard. Each discussion should be self-explanatory. The name of each discussion begins with "W1", indicating that it is to be used during Week 1 of class. See our SiteIndex WebPage for a complete list of Weeks and Dates for all Assignments.
The help discussion is "W1 - Help" Use this to ask any and all question you have. You earn 0 points for asking a question. You earn 4 points for correctly answering a question.
The remaining 6 discussions ... you may add as many threads to these discussions as you like. Each time you substantially participate in one of these discussions you earn 3 points.
Remember, as a condition for taking this class, you already agreed to the following:
"I understand BlackBoard Discussions are a required (graded element) of weekly assignments. I agree that I will participate early in weekly discussions. I agree that I will read my fellow student's postings. I agree to visit weekly discussion forums multiple times every week. I agree to add threads that comment on other student's posts. I agree to use BlackBoard Discussions to help my fellow students whenever possible. In other words, I agree to use BlackBoard Discussions in place of conversations that would otherwise take place face-to-face in weekly classroom meetings -- which are otherwise impossible in an on-line class like this one."
First Web Page
15 Points
This is not hard. I will help you. Ask?
You will complete and turn-in your first web page written in HTML, with all the necessary comments about the text editor you used (see strategy for writing HTML). Turn-in early and I will send you feedback. If needed, you can make corrections and turn-in again. When I browse to your web page it will look like this ...
You will name this page helloWorld.html.
This is the minimum HTML required for HelloWorld WebPage, without any body content for the WebPage itself. Of course, you would use your name as Author, the name of your Text Editor, and a correct date :
This is an example of the HTML for HelloWorld that would be enclosed by the <body> tags :
If you are confused about writing this HTML yourself, then you either didn't study Tutorial 1, or you need to review Tutorial 1. Everything needed to complete this simple WebPage is contained in Tutorial 1. In completing this assignment, you will understand the purpose of HTML tags, and what content belongs inside HTML tags such as <head></head> and <body></body> tags. For example, you should be able to answer a question such as: "What belongs inside HTML <body></body> tags?"
Turn-in your web page
The preferred turn-in method will be for you to use FTP to upload your HTML document to your Tulane CPST WebServer. See this page about using FTP. See this page about using CPST WebServer. Once you are successful in copying your helloWorld page to CPST WebServer, then, using your WebBrowser, browse to your HelloWorld page, copy the URL, and paste it into a new eMail message to George (gnorth@tulane.edu). If this makes complete sense to you, GREAT! If this sounds like Greek to you, don't panic. I will help. Ask?
The alternate turn-in method will be for you to attach your HTML document to an eMail message to George.
See this page, CPST WebServer Information, about how you can setup your own Web Site on Tulane's CPST WebServer. If you placed your WebPage properly, it URL will look something like this:
http://cpst.tulane.edu/~yname/cpst240010/helloWorld.html
Keep in mind that yname is your Tulane user ID (same as your eMail name). Make certain that your URL works properly by browsing to it yourself before sending it via eMail.