Syllabus

Jeremy Frens
office: North Hall 296
phone: x6-8666
email: jdfrens@calvin.edu
Office hours: 9:00a MWF, by appointment

Texts

Recomended:

• Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML by Elisabeth Freeman & Eric Freeman

This book is recommended if you've never done anything with HTML (and CSS) before.

Course Work

Feedback on assignments can accessed on acolyte.

• Quizzes. There will be seven quizzes during the semester, given every other Friday. The lowest quiz grade will be dropped; no makeup quizzes will be given. There is no other traditional, sit-down testing in this course.
• Assignments. You'll be kept busy with a variety of assignments. The assignments vary in difficulty and have been weighted appropriately.
• Final Project. The final project will be to create your own Website using the tools examined in this course. You will present your Website to the class during the last two weeks of the semester.

Tentatively, I'm planning on weighing the quizzes, assignments, and final project evenly (each worth one third of your course grade).

You will lose 10% for each calendar day an assignment is late. Quizzes cannot be made up. The final project cannot be turned in late.

Attendance

You will not be graded on class attendance for normal lectures, but try to be faithful in attendence nevertheless. Because each week's topic builds on the topics of previous weeks, it may be difficult to catch up once you fall behind.

I plan on bringing in at least two speakers, and you will be required to attend their presentations.

You are expected to attend all of the final-project presentations.

Disabilities

Calvin will make reasonable accommodations for you if you have documented disabilities. Notify the Coordinator of Services for Students with Disabilities located in the Student Academic Services, HH 455, and also notify us within the first two weeks of class.

Incompletes

An incomplete grade (I) is given only in unusual circumstances, and only if those circumstances have been confirmed by the Student Life office. Procrastination does not qualify as an unusual circumstance.

Work Policies

All of your work for this class must be your own. For assignments and even the project, you are free to discuss generalities, such as how to go about solving particular problems. Tests are to be done completely on your own.

All work will be checked for originality. Unoriginal work submitted as your own constitutes theft of that work and will be dealt with in accordance with the Discipline Code, as specified in the Student Handbook.

Responsible Use of Technology

You are expected to abide by the guidelines expressed in "Responsible Use of Technology at Calvin College". Offensive material (i.e., pornography) is not filtered; however, all Web accesses are logged. These logs are checked monthly, and violators are turned in to Student Life.