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Announcements in Winter 2001
XML - March 26, 2001
The slides for XML lecture (Lecture 11) are now on-line.
Assignment 7 - March 24, 2001
The last assignment is about XML. It is now on-line. The due
date is April 3rd.
Assignment 6 - March 13, 2001
The sixth assignment is due on Tuesday March 27, in class.
Midterm - March 14, 2001
The midterm grades are now on-line.
Presentations - March 6, 2001
The class presentation reports as well as the presentation
schedule are now on-line.
Tutorial2 - March 6, 2001
The Jave Tutorial about Servlets that John wrote is now
on line.
Tutorial - February 23, 2001
The Jave Tutorial about AWT and Swing that John wrote is now
on line. Check it out.
Deadline change - February 12, 2001
The deadline for assignment 4 has changed. You can handed in
by Monday February 19th, 2001 at 16:00. Send URL and report
by e-mail (in text, pdf or HTML).
A3 results - February 9, 2001
You can now see the contributions of the sudents for
assignment3. Go to the activity page and check under assignment 3.
Assignment4 - February 9, 2001
Assignment 4 is now on-line. It is just an improvement on
assignment 3 by moving the form validation on the client-side using
JvaScript, and storing user information in a cookie rather than on the
server-side. The due date will be Friday February
16th, 2001 at 16:00.
New deadline - February 7, 2001
Due date for the assignment 3 has been extended. The new
deadline to hand-in your assignments is Friday February
9th, 2001 at 16:00.
Access - February 2, 2001
Some people still seem to have problems accessing the
diffrent password protected pages and tools on our course web site. As
I explained in class, you have to use your unix ID to login and (for
the first time) use your student ID as a password. I recommend that
you change your passwords as soon as possible. This password is for
our course web site. It has nothing to do with your unix or GPU account.
A2 results - February 2, 2001
You can now see the contributions of the sudents for
assignment2. Go to the activity page and check under assignment 2.
Chat - February 1, 2001
The U-Chat too has a problem. I'll fix it as soon as I'll
find some time. There are access permissions that I'll have to
change. Sorry about that.
Your resources - February 1, 2001
The Student
Resources page is now functional. You can submit references to
pages or sites you think are interesting and relevant to the
course. This should be a great way to share URLs.
Assignment3 - February 1, 2001
The third assignment that we discussed in class on Tuesday,
is now on-line. The deadline is next week Thursday.
Topics - January 25, 2001
The topics suggestions for the class presentations are now
on-line in the form of slides in pdf format. Check the activities page.
Resources - January 23, 2001
Ajit suggested this very nice resource page (The Web Developer Virtual Library). Check it
out. I has very interesting links relevant to the course content.
Resources - January 23, 2001
Ajit provided us with interesting links to UofA design
guidlines that could be useful for your assignments:
E-mail - January 22, 2001
We have a class e-mail address that you can use to exchange
Cmput 499 related messages. The mail list (cmput499@cs.ualberta.ca) contains all students as
well as the instructor and TA.
Lecture 5 - January 22, 2001
The slides for Lecture
5 are now on-line. The printable version is not available since
the slides are a series of html pages with includes animations.
UofA Logo - January 19, 2001
Randy Pavelich has provided us with links to some image files
containing UofA logos. If you need to used them please just point to
them in your HTML code rather then copying them. Thank you Randy.
UofA Logo - January 19, 2001
In the context of the course assignment 1 and 2, some
students may want to use the University logo to give a more realistic
view of the simulated department web page. The University of Alberta
has a program, university's Visual Identity program, that regulates
the use of these registered trademarks and ensure they are only used for
appropriate purposes. Therefore, you can use the university logo for
other purposes than these assignments and you are not supposed to
modify the logos. I have received a
communication from Randy Pavelich, the University Web Manager, who
insists on these conditions. Here are the rules to follow when using
the UofA logos for assignment 1 and 2:
<IMG SRC="http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/gif/ua.gif" WIDTH=40 HEIGHT=40> would be rendered as follows:
Lecture 4 - January 18, 2001
The slides for Lecture 4 (HTML
and Beyond) are now on-line. The printable version is also accessible.
Survey - January 16, 2001
The survey about the students background in web development
is now on-line. You can check it in the student
workspaces. It is normaly password protected but for the moment
since the student list is not on-line yet, the page is open.
Ugrad network outage - January 16, 2001
On the morning of January 17th (tomorrow) there
will be a brief outage of the undergraduate systems planned to
complete some software maintenance. Logins
and access to home directories will be affected during the outage. All
service will be restored before labs start that morning. From the Undergraduate Labs Systems Administrator.
Links and links - January 16, 2001
Some students are asking about good references for
JavaScript. First, we will cover JavaScript in class next week (I
believe). Second, I have already put links to resources on the topic
in our Web-Links
page. There is even an e-book (free) about JavaScript. Check it out.
Counting the Votes - January 16, 2001
You were asked to vote for your favorite term project. The
deadline was today and 12 people (out of 20) used their right to
vote. The results are here 
. So
our project will be about designing and implementing a web-based
gardening store. Check the project page for more details.
Labs - January 15, 2001
For the moment we have no lab exercices like other undergrad
courses. Therefor, the presence in the labs is not mendatory. During
lab time (Mondays 17:00 to 19:50) you have priority to use the
machines. Later we will use lab time lab time for the assignment
demos. John will be in the lab in the first part of the lab time to
answer any questions the students might have. If there are any changes
to this plan, you will be advised by e-mail and through the
announcements in this page.
TA - January 15, 2001
John's office hours have changed. It is now scheduled
on Tuesdays from 13:00 to 14:00.
Lecture slides - January 12, 2001
The slides for Lectures 1 (Introduction), 2 (Internet & WWW)
and 3 (Protocols) are now on-line.
Topic for the project - January 12, 2001
We were discussing a topic for the term project and I decided
to drop the idea for a CD/bookstore, clothes retail, and grocery
store. I suggested and on-line gardening store and someone suggested a
ticketmaster-like service. Remember that the project has two parts the
retail part and the management part. While I prefer the on-line
gardening store, you should choose by voting for your favorite
topic. I am waiting for the votes (by e-mail) before Tuesday January 16th.
First assignments - January 11, 2001
Assignment 1 and Assignment 2 are now posted on-line. Check
your activities web page for for more details.
Final Exam update - January 10, 2001
There is no final exam for this course.
We will have 7 assignments, a term project, a midterm exam and an
epilogue test. See slide
on evaluation for more details.
First Class - January 9, 2001
The first class will be January 9th. There is nothing to
prepare. Just come and meet the other class mates. We will briefly talk
about what we will learn together this term and you will get
an idea about the project we will be working on.
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