CS 100: Homework 3

CS 100 - Computer Literacy, Spring 2005

Homework 3 - Creating a Weblet

Due Date: Wednesday 4/6/2005 Friday 4/8/2005 at 11:59 pm

If you turnin your assignment by Wednesday, April 6, 2005 by 11:59 pm, you will get 10% extra credit.

What are you interested in? What do you know about that other people on the Web might like to learn? The Web has an extremely low signal-to-noise ratio and sorely needs your valuable expertise. Your job in this assignment is to put some quality content out there on the Web.

What shall you write about? Really, anything you like. Do you have some good recipes? Do you know more about the Chicago Bulls than any other living human being? Would you like to make some original artwork available to the world? Would you like to tell us something about the beauty and culture of your home city or country? Have you figured out how to do something for this course that would really help the poor students that have to take it in the future?

Your assignment is to create a collection of Web pages revolving around your interesting topic. You must meet the following technical requirements:

You must have at least five pages of content in your "weblet."
You must have a link from your Homepage on Icarus to the first page of your weblet.
Your pages must be linked to each other in some fashion.
Your weblet must contain at least five images.
You must use the following elements somewhere within your weblet:
- lists,
- tables,
- image links,
- mailto,
- colored backgrounds (or image backgrounds)
You must include links to at least five related sites around the Web.
The "first page" of your weblet must contain a link back to your home page and the CS 100 home page. This should be in a section that briefly states something like:
This page was created by Pat Troy for Homework 3 for CS 100.

In addition, you must meet the following content requirements:

The content must be original, or reflect significant research (and proper references) to existing work. You should think of this as writing a 4 to 5 page paper for an English class. As a guide, your weblet should contain about 20 paragraphs of information. You may not take the content simply from the WWW itself; it's already out there, so you won't be adding anything new.
The writing must be your own.
Spelling, grammar, and punctuation count. Have somebody else read it for you to make sure that it makes sense, and use your dictionary.
Your weblet must reflect some attention to page layout and design, and should have a consistent "look" from page to page.
Navagation around your weblet must be consistant and obvious.
The topics discussed in the weblet should be about a single cohesive idea. The topics discussed on each page should also be about a single cohesive sub-idea.

Grading will be out of a maximum of 100 points. Grading will be split between the two sets of requirements: 50 points for meeting the technical requirements, and 50 points for meeting the content requirements. The technical points should be almost automatic, but we will be grading fairly tough on content. You should get an early start on your research for content. As always, late assignments will not be accepted.

Project Collaboration

You are allowed to receive help on this project from other students who are also taking CS 100. Each student must still complete and submit his/her own project. You will be required to include a Collaboration Statement somewhere on your project if you receive help. This statement can simply be something like the following:

For this project, I received help from the following member of CS 100.

Devang Jariwala
Shun Liang
Hongwei Zhu

This statement should list each helping student's name with a link to that person's UIC Homepage on Icarus. This statement DOES NOT count toward the completion of any technical requirements for this project.

Submission of your Project

In addition to displaying your weblet on the inernet, you must electronically submit all of your files (all .html files, all image files and any other files used with your weblet) via the UNIX turnin command using the project name of hw3 or by emailing all of these files to the i100@cs.uic.edu account.

If you are using the UNIX turnin command, the easiest way to do this is to create a directory that contains all of the files needed for your information web. Then you turnin the entire directory. For example, assume you create a subdirectory in your public_html directory called hw3directory. In this "hw3directory" directory you contain all of the files needed for this assignment. If you are in your public_html directory, you can the type in the command:

    $> turnin -c troy -p hw3 hw3directory

To verify what you submitted using the turnin command type:

    $> turnin -c troy -p hw3 -v

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Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago