To Do List

Given that on Jan 27, 2015 classes are canceled due to the snow storm, please do the following before class on Jan 28, so that we stay in track with our schedule.

1. Read the general information about the course. You can see the deadlines for the different activities on the schedule page. You can also skim the tools page, in case you need to know about tools used in this course. If you have any questions about the course information, schedule, or tools that you want me to address, please submit them to this Google Form. This feedback is anonymous, thus, feel free to express any thoughts freely.
2. Create a Tumblr blog to use for this class. If you already have a personal Tumblr account, you cannot use it for a second blog (because the second blog doesn't have the features we need), thus, you will have to use a secondary email address to create a new Tumblr account. To avoid having to login and logout from your different accounts, you can use Chrome in the Incognito mode (as a new window), so that it doesn't know about your other account. Feel free to use a Tumblr name that doesn't reveal your identity. You can see examples in our Aggregator page. This page was created before the semester start, in order to test a new web application we are building for the course.
3. Make sure that you have a public_html folder in the CS server. You can test this by typing the URL to your account in the browser. For example, if your account name is hgranger, the URL of your account is http://cs.wellesley.edu/~hgranger/. If you have never uploaded any files in the public_html folder, you will not see much when you go to the URL. If you have taken CS230, you might see some of the labs you have uploaded there. For the moment, create a simple HTML file (you can use CSS too if you desire), name it index.html and upload it to public_html using an SFTP client (you might have used one in CS111, for example Fetch or WinSCP). Then, when you go to your URL, you shouldn't see the lab folders anymore, but the page you wrote. You can read from the Head First HTML and CSS book to learn about building a simple HTML page, or look at the online tutorials from W3Schools (this might be better, because you can test things on the browser). If you are having difficulty with this, either find a friend (see list below) to work together, or send me an email.
4. Read the description for our first AM. Find a friend in your dorm ( click here for list of students in the class) and work a bit together in the problem. Don't worry about making a lot of progress, but try to figure out how much you don't know yet to be able to do this app. Try to work on some of the questions of Part 1 or Part 2, whatever is easier for you.
5. Once you have worked some on AM1, write a Tumblr post in the account that you created. Depending on the nature of your post, use one of the hashtags #reflection, #contribution, or #question to tag your post (careful about spelling them in the exact same way). You can view existing posts in the Aggregator page to see how the tags apply to different kinds of posts. If you see a post tagged as #question that hasn't been answered, but you know the answer, feel free to reblog it, answer it, and tag it with the label #answer.
6. Once you wrote your blog post, please send your Tumblr URL to me, so that I can include it into our aggregator page and discuss your entries on the Wednesday class.