How to use the course web

For a number of reasons, I have chosen to make most of the handouts for this course available only in electronic format on the World-Wide Web. I will go over basic use of the web and you should make sure to ask me if you have any questions about using the World-Wide Web.

The course web can be found at http://www.math.grin.edu/~rebelsky/Courses/CS103/98S/ You may want to bookmark that page.

A number of important pieces of information are in the course web, including assignments, readings, requirements, syllabus, and office hours. I assume that if I put information on the web, you will (eventually) read it.

• At the bare minimum, you should read all the pieces of basic information about the course. Of particular interest is the syllabus, which lists all the readings.
• I strongly recommend that you regularly check the list of changes to the course web. Each day, I try to record changes to the course web in this page, listing newly created or significantly modified pages.
• I prepare a rough outline for each class. Most students find these useful, and you should feel free to refer to them before, during, and after class.

At the top and bottom of every page are a series of links to important components of the course web. These are

• Instructions. This set of instructions.
• Search. A simple search facility for the course web.
• Current. The outline of the current or next class. You may need to reload the page to get the appropriate version.
• Changes. A list of recent changes to the course web.
• Syllabus. The course syllabus.
• Handouts. Handouts for the class.
• Outlines. The outlines of classes that have been held. You can sometimes access other classes through the syllabus.
• Journal. Information about the journal that you are required to keep.
• Problems. The written problem sets for this course (the math side).
• Computing. The computing and programming problems for this course (the computer science side).
• SamR Docs. Documentation for some library routines I've built for this and other courses.
• Tutorial. A local online copy of The Java Tutorial.
• API. Documentation for the standard Java libraries.