CGS 3066: Introduction to Internet Technology
Spring 2003

Course Contact Information

Instructor: Stephen Hines
Office Hours: TR 5:00 - 6:30 PM Love 205F or by appointment
Office Phone: 644-1672
Email:

Teaching Assistant: Shishir Tiwari
Office hours: MW 4:00 - 5:00 PM Love 203E
Email: tiwari@cs.fsu.edu

Class Times

Important Notices

• [04-30-03 20:30] I will be in my office from 1:00pm - 2:30pm on Thursday, May 1. This is a correction from the day of the final, since I need to be at an exam at 3pm. Please try to come early.
• [04-22-03 09:45] Tonight's lecture will consist of project presentations, and one last important topic. There will not be any HTML presentation of the material, so you must come to class if you want to be prepared for the Final Exam (Tuesday 4/29/03 8-10pm).
• [04-15-03 00:15] Final Project guidelines are available at project.html. I will go over this and answer any questions during office hours or in class tomorrow.
• [04-07-03 09:15] Assignment #9 may not be available until Tuesday. Spend recitation time working on your projects this week.
• [03-31-03 08:40]
  • Since I will not be in town on Thursday night, I am planning on having a short makeup question for the last question on the test. You must be present to take it. There will be not retakes for this, as it is a bonus. It will be out of 30 points and will replace the grade you have currently received on the last question of the test. It will cover the same material as was on the test, but it may be different from the previous question. I will talk more about this in class on Tuesday.
  • Also important to note is that there are no new assignments for this week. In recitation, you can get help with understanding assignment 8, so that you can better prepare for Thursday's makeup question.
  • I still have not received each group's topic for the project. These were due Friday, so please send it to me as soon as possible.
• [03-27-03 09:35] Please link to my sample passwd file for Assignment #8. I have had numerous emails to the effect that the first file didn't have a matching password for the user "mike". The current file is correct.
  Also, don't forget about the midterm tonight.
• [03-24-03 09:21] I have uploaded Assignment #8 to the website. This assignment has to do with password checking, and is very similar to what we did in lecture 18. Remember that the material from this assignment will be covered on Thursday's Exam, so you should try to finish this up as soon as you can.
• [03-17-03 09:35] I have posted Assignment #7. We have not yet covered some of the material for it (like using ereg()), so just try to do as much of it as possible. If you like getting ahead, then you can look at the documentation links on the assignment page for how you can handle that part.
• [03-03-03 13:45] I have posted this week's assignment. It is the Preliminary Project Guidelines. You will be responsible for emailing me your group member list by this Friday afternoon. Your task over Spring Break is to think about a topic for your project.
• [02-25-03 07:45] Take a look at Sample Output for Assignment #6. Your code does not have to match exactly (e.g. spacing and such), but the general information should be the same.
• [02-24-03 12:45] Assignment #6 has been posted online. It requires you to dynamically generate a table using PHP. It also requires the use of arrays which we will talk about on Tuesday. If you start early on the assignment though, just wait until class before emailing me any questions about it.
• [02-17-03 09:00] Assignment #5 has been posted online now. This assignment requires a great deal of more thinking, and less creativity than the past assignments. You will be parsing a date/time string for various pieces of useful information. Start taking a look at it, so we can discuss any questions you might have during my office hours or in class.
• [02-04-03 20:30] Jason Austin has told me that you can use mail.cs.fsu.edu as the POP3 server for Outlook/Eudora style mail clients. There is no smtp server available though, so you will be able to receive mail from the address, but not send from it using these clients.
• [02-04-03 18:00] I am posting a link to the page of XHTML keywords that will be available during the test. You should know whether each is a tag, a parameter or a value. You will get this exact same sheet on test day. It looks bad because it is a pdf made from a postscript file. If you want a nicer looking copy, you can try this one, but you will need a postscript viewer.

Useful Links

• W3C HTML Validation Services - Used to validate xhtml pages
• W3C CSS Validation Services - Used to validate cascading style sheets
• World Wide Web Consortium - Maintain Web standards for documents and formats
• W3C XHTML 1.1 Standard with Tags - Listing of various available tags in XHTML
• Google - Powerful searching tool for the Internet
• Vim - Vi Improved - A free text editor that provides syntax highlighting for xhtml and other languages. It is available for Windows and Unix systems, and is available on the department webserver.
• Crimson Editor - A free text editor that provides syntax highlighting for xhtml and other languages. It is available for Windows and is fairly easy to use.

This page is maintained by Stephen Hines, 2003