An overview of the Fall 1996 CS20 semester:

The basis for the grade:
	10 points for reports on the readings 
	 (that allows doing it badly 4 times)
	10 points for your homepage
	10 points for the automated 1040EZ
	10 points for your paper on the impact of the computer on society
	10 points for your report on surfing, lurking, and listservs
	10 points for your hypertext poem/fiction/adventure-game
	40 points for your classroom activities and attendance
	(n.b. there are 43 class meetings; that means you can cut
	 a week's worth; a wise person will save those 3 for
	 illnesses, out of town games, family emergencies, ....)

CS20 is not a spectator sport!

Definitions of terms:
•report on a reading: a couple of paragraphs e-mailed to me
	outlining what YOU think of the issues raised by the article.

•homepage:an html extravaganza showing who you are, how good your
	taste is, what your enthusiasms are, and some tools that might 
	help someone who shared one of them.

•automated 1040EZ form: an Excel worksheet that asks only that
	the user enter her data to generate her income tax, performing 
	all the calculations itself.

•lurking _et al._ report: two or more pages outlining your 
	experience with your chosen listservs, and newsgroups, commenting 
	on what seems salient about the written material, and the folks 
	who submit it.

•hypertext:a small (ten chunks or less) piece of reader-directed 
	imaginative writing.

•paper: a big (5 plus pages) foot/endnoted paper that documents 
	something you've discovered about the device's impact that you
	feel either passionate about or intrigued by.  It's also a chance
	to astound me with your technical mastery of the word processor,
	graphs, illustrations, pretty-printing, etc.
	

Dates worthy of special note:
September
	 4	report on reading 25 due.
	11	report on reading 21 due.
	18	report on reading 1 due.
	25	report on reading 30 due.
	30	report on lurking, surfing, and listservs due.
October
	 2	report on reading 6 due.
	 9	report on reading 45 due.
	14	report on reading 38 due.
	16	automated 1040EZ due.
	17-18	midterm break
	23	report on reading 11 due.
	30	report on reading 12 due.
November
	 6	report on reading 24 due.
	 8	homepage due.
	13	report on reading 33 and the cyberlaw article due.
	20	report on reading 8 due.
	25	hypertext due
	27-29	Thanksgiving break
December
	 4	report on article 14 due.
	11	report on article 19 due.
	13	last day of class
	18	paper on the impact due (at 12:00 noon)