CSC 302-- Course Syllabus

Dr. Glenn Wiggins




Purpose:
This course is intended to present the basic concepts of access to  the internet and world wide web . It will  provide the student the appropriate terminology and concepts of how the underlying technologies are structured. Students will be given instruction in the use of email, encoding techniques and WWW searching and navigation techniques.In addition, the student will be given an overview of how some of these concepts are made possible. The social and ethical impact of the WEB and its associated technologies will also be discussed. A basic introduction to HTML and  creation of web pages will be two of the  primary components of this course. The course is intended for the general college audience and while it may be taken by Computer Science students as a general elective, it does not require any computer science other than an introductory computer course.
 

Prerequisite:  is an introductory computer science course (MC-CSC114).

Text: It is highly recommended that you purchase the  text available in the Mississippi College Bookstore.
Web Design & Development Using XHTML , Published by Franklin Beedle & Associates , by
Griffin, Morales and Finnegan, 2003.
 
 

Attendance: Mandatory. Refer to Mississippi College Policies and Procedures  for details(Attendance requirements may also be found on page 50-51 of the 2000-2001 Mississippi College  General Bulletin). Since this is a MWF class, you may not miss more than 25%, 12 classes, without penalty of an automatic grade of  F. When a student must miss class for whatever reason, it is his/her responsibility to present a valid excuse to the instructor as soon as possible. All previously assigned work, exams, and quizzes are to be made up within one week. If missed assignments or exams or tests are not made up within the week , then the student will get a grade of  0 on the requirement. Should the student find it impossible to make up the requirements within one week upon returning to normal class attendance, then a mutual agreement with the instructor of the class must be obtained as soon as reasonable regarding times for completion of the  delinquent course requirements. The last day to drop this course is Friday, March 24, 2006.
 

Academic Honesty:
This statement on academic honesty in computer science courses is an addendum to the Mississippi College policy 2.19 found at http://www.mc.edu/publications/policies/academic/219.wpd

In a computer science, class individual effort is expected.  Student misconduct not only includes cheating on tests, but also extends to copying or collaborating on programming assignments, projects, lab work or researchunless otherwise specified by the instructor.  Using other people's accounts to do your work or having others do your work is prohibited. Close proximity in lab does not mean sharing solutions. 

NOTE: Discussing logical solutions to problems is acceptable, exchange of code, pseudocode, designs, or procuring solutions from the Web, other texts, the Internet or other resources on or offoff campus is not acceptable.

First offense: grade of 0 for all parties involved unless the "guilty" party can be determined
Second offense: grade of F in the course

Grading:
The following grading scale will be used : A- 90-100 %, B-80-89%, C-70-79%, D-60-69%, F- 0-59%

Note: A necessary part of the requirements of this course is to check you MCnet account daily.
Failure to do so could cause you to miss important information or instructions regarding the course and could
adversely affect your grade!

Assessment:

  * Note: an additional percentage will be added to your final average based on class attendance.The percentages will be as follows:

3% will be added for less than 2 absences; 2% will be added for less than 4 absences and 1% will be added for less than 6 absences.

15 WWW Authoring Exercises

15 X  2% each  = 30%

1 midterm exam

1  X  25% each = 25%

MidTerm Web project

1 X  10% each  = 10%

Final Web project

1 X  10% each  = 10%

1 Final Exam (Comprehensive) 1 X   25% each = 25%

                    Total 

                         100%

 


  CSC 302 -Internet and World Wide Web Basics