How to Use the Course Web

For a number of reasons, we have chosen to make many of the handouts for this course available only in electronic format on the World Wide Web. I will not go over basic use of the Web, since you should know about it from other courses. 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.cs.grinnell.edu/~rebelsky/Courses/CSC295/2011F/ 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, which starts at the front door.
• Of particular interest is the schedule, which lists all the daily topics. You should consider checking it regularly, because things willchange.
• We may prepare a rough outline for each class.

At the top and bottom of every page are a series of links to important components of the course web. They are broken into a variety of sections whose purpose should be obvious.

Primary Links

• Front Door. The home page for the course.
• Schedule. An approximate schedule of work for the course.
• Academic Honesty. A short discourse on academic honesty, added to the common links so that you'll make sure to check it.
• Instructions. This set of instructions.
• P'Web. The Pioneer Web site for this course.
• ExBioPy. The Web site for Exploring Biology with Python, the locally-developed supplement for our textbook.

Groupings

• Assignments. A list of the assignments for the class, accompanied by their due dates
• Handouts. The primary handouts for the class, such as these instructions.
• Outlines. The outlines of classes that have been held.

Misc

Here you will find other useful links.

• SamR. Sam's front door.
• Textbook. The site for our textbook.