day five: tables in web pages, color

On Monday we began a 32-minute biography. Today let us complete a one-hour biography, after a discussion of color.
Here are some beautiful color links:

• all the web-safe colors
• an alternative ordering of web-safe colors
• colors and their goofy web-safe names
• color neighbors
• this one is a little complex, but beautiful

Biography requirements:

• all new content
• at least two colors
• at least two fonts
• at least two pictures
• at least four links
• and last, but not least, all the links must work!

When this is finished — homework! — zip the whole web folder and send it to me (vfitton at nvcc.edu) with subject line "110 web biography" and tell me the name of your page in the body of your letter.

Here's a silly bio I made a few years ago — click. And here is another page I made about one of my interests — click.

Day three: making web pages

Don't know yet if our zip problem is fixed. It will be soon, no doubt. Meanwhile, today,we will:

• discuss file types
• discuss the Windows file system
• make a web page

In working on the web page, we'll be going back and forth between two applications:

• the browser, Internet Explorer or Firefox, for admiring our work and for looking for ideas
• the editor, TextPad, for writing the HTML code for our page

Follow these steps:

• Create a folder called web on the desktop.
• In the browser, do View / Source on this page, then copy and paste it into the editor.
  Make changes to please yourself in the code.
• In TextPad, do File/Save As to save the code. Name it pagezero.html and put it in the web folder.
• Now admire your page in the browser!
  Make some changes, and admire it even more.

After pagezero comes pageone.

Reading assignment: pages 23 to 38 of the text by Felke-Morris (brown cover). The reference pages from 221 to 259 suggest lots of fun things to do, as well as where we're going.

Day two: everyday definitions and tasks

Today we will discuss two view (at least!) of a computer system and define some fundamental terms.

Assignment: Zip together three files to be names as we go along and attach them in an e-mail to me.

Day one, spring 2008

Welcome to CSC 110!

Today's agenda:

• introductory rituals: syllabus and survey
• LAN and VCCS account names and passwords —
  click here, see item 1
• Safari database — click here
• e-mail to instructor, vfitton@nvcc.edu

For the e-mail, which you may send from anywhere, please include the following:

• 110 as the first thing in the subject line
• your real name
• title of Safari book that you choose and a link to it
• your LAN ID for using NVCC computers
• your NovaConnect ID