today's schedule 1:00-2:00 OVERVIEW      Tom's talk      Lloyd's announcements      discussion & questions      journal Q of the day 2:00-3:00 INDIV. work      tutorial on imagemapping      work on personal website      update/upload docs 3:00 get some air!     ...and sunshine (hopefully)! 3:30-4:00 GROUP work      group meetings      midterm evaluation 4:00-4:30 free period      play/gametime free period fun 'n games... Fermezy and Ilya blasting away at Unreal.

MIDTERM EVALUATION Here we are now, at the halfway point of the session. Isn't it amazing how time flies in this class? For the midterm evaluation, I would like you to write me an e-mail on some questions -- a very easy midterm, compared to other ATDP courses' exams! TIC is one of the very few ATDP classes that don't stress you out with tests and finals. :-) Understand that this evaluation has NOTHING to do with your course grade, and EVERYTHING to do with how this class is run. We want to do better for you, and require your complete honesty and clarity of thinking on these questions. So, please write about the following: Evaluate the course: Is this class what you thought it would be? Is it fulfilling your expectations, or not? Are we going too fast, too slow, or just right? Are we covering enough material? Too much? Too little? What do you think of the journal writing? Evaluate the instructors and TAs: How are we teaching? Are we confusing, or easy to understand? Are we asking enough questions and helping out enough? What do we need to do be of more assistance to you? Comment separately about the instructors (Lloyd, Tom, Angel, Luis) and about your group TA. You may, if you wish, comment on individual instructors or TAs (aside from your group TA) whom you have felt have been particularly helpful to you. Evaluate yourself: How do you feel you're doing in the class? Has learning HTML been fairly easy, moderately so, or difficult for you? Has your thinking about web design and web content been stimulated by this course? What do you expect of yourself for the last half of the session? You may write this evaluation in the lab today, or do it at home -- but if you wait until the weekend, please be sure to e-mail it in by late Sunday evening. (I recommend you do it at home, if possible, as you'll have more time to be thoughtful and reflective then, rather than here at the lab where you're busy with much other stuff.) IMPORTANT E-mail this evaluation only to me (lloyd@uclink4.berkeley.edu). I will share a summary of the whole class' evaluations with the other instructors and with your group TA. today's links Tom's essay on the course weblog Binary gold Notice something when you watched the Super Bowl this year? There was no Bud Bowl! Nor were there the same dizzying number of beer commercials, new movie trailers, and truck ads. No Little Ceasars, no McDonalds, no Pepsi. It seemed like every commercial was .com this or www. that. What happened? Journal question: The media loves to tell the story of young, bright people who have become billionaires by starting technology companies. Yahoo, Amazon, and eBay have all created instant billionaires. You are all young and bright. Now it is your turn to think of the next billion-dollar idea. Come up with an idea for a dot-com company. What does your site do? What does it sell? Ideas, products, information? Write a business plan summary that details your idea. Explain why your idea will be the next big thing. You can write a serious proposal or one that is an outrageous parody. (Optional) Do you care about becoming rich, like a millionaire? Why or why not? homework for Mon. 7.10 Read Chapters 10 (Frames) and 11 (Forms). Create a sample frameset, and upload it to your directory on the server. On one of the frames on the frameset, include a forms field, with the form data sent via e-amil -- that is, without the use of a server-side script (CGI). Instructions on doing this are to be found on p. 194 of your textbook.