The following assignment provides a very LIMITED extra credit opportunity for CISC105 students. It is currently LIMITED to 14 students.
What you need to do: Write and publically post a summary of the lecture notes from ONE of the classes during the period from Friday 10/08 through Monday 11/08.
Who gets extra credit: The first person to post a substantially complete outline of the notes for a particular day. There may also be a limited opportunity for the second or third person to post to get some credit as a "consolation prize". (More detail below.)
Note that you may only claim the top prize ONCE, and the consolation prize ONCE per semester. This provides an opportunity to spread the wealth. To ensure that you don't all compete over the same date, use the message board "Extra Credit Discussions") on WebCT to coordinate with one another.
How much credit:
Full prize is (your choice):
Consolation prizes will be half of that: a 5% project upgrade, or 1/4 the distance to 100%, subject to the same rules.
What you must do to GET the credit
I will post on WebCT who the "winner" is for each date.
However, to "claim" your prize, you must come in person during office hours, or make an appointment with Prof. Conrad to review your submission, and watch him add the extra credit on WebCT.
Deadline for claiming the credit is noon, Thursday Dec 9, the end of my last "regular" scheduled office hours for Fall semester. (The deadline for this extra credit remains Dec 9 even if, later on, I announce additional office hours for finals week.)
However, you need to get this done quickly if you want to be first to claim a particular date! I suggest that you use the message board "Extra Credit Discussions" on WebCT to announce your intention to write up notes for a particular date in advance, so that you don't all end up trying for the same date.
How to post:
What you need to do: Post a summary of the lecture notes from ONE of the classes during the period from Friday 10/08 through Monday 11/08. Your summary needs to cover only the major points of the lecture; it does not need to be a word for word transcript. If the lecture focussed on code available in the web directory http://udel.edu/~pconrad/cisc105/04F/code, you should include a URL for the exact directory (e.g. http://udel.edu/~pconrad/cisc105/04F/code/10.08). You do not need to include the text of the code In deciding who receives the extra credit, I will take into account both the quality of and the timeliness of the submissions. Also read the details under "how to submit" below.
The first person to post a substantially
complete outline of the notes for a particular day. e.g.
the first person to post a good summary for 10/08 gets credit, and the first
person to post a good summary for 10/11 gets credit,
etc.
Note that I might also give a reduced amount of credit for a limited
number (probably only 1 or 2) of subsequent posts for the same day if those posts
contain significant detail about key points that the first poster missed. However,
I reserve the right to NOT give this additional credit, based on my own judgement,
and
my
decisions are final.
How to Submit
You will put your notes on the web either in plain text form, HTML or PDF format (no credit for MSWord format submission!), and then post the URL of your submission in a special "discussion board" on WebCT called "Extra Credit Submissions (URLs of lecture notes summaries)". The time stamp on the discussion board will be used to determine who is "first".
Note that you can use MSWord, but you must save your file in HTML format as "notes.html", and upload to the web site ALL associated files (e.g. images, etc.)
Be sure to include your name inside your file (your .txt .html or .pdf file) and also the following statement:
Copyright 2004 by (your name here.) Permission is given to Phillip T. Conrad to copy this file and post it electronically with modifications, provided that this copyright notice is maintained. All other rights reserved.That statement gives me permission to archive and post a copy of your notes, after I correct any mistakes I may have made in the lecture, and/or any typos that you might have introduced in transcribing the notes.
Use one of the following forms of URL:
http://udel.edu/~userid/cisc105/notes/10.08/notes.txt http://udel.edu/~userid/cisc105/notes/10.08/notes.html
http://udel.edu/~userid/cisc105/notes/10.08/notes.pdf
To create the directory and file, substitute the date for mm.dd, and use these commands:
mkdir -p ~/public_html/cisc105/notes/mm.dd
cd ~/public_html/cisc105/notes/mm.dd
emacs notes.txt OR emacs
notes.html
chmod -R a+rx ~/public_html/cisc105/notes/mm.dd
If you have diagrams that are hard to convert into ASCII art and you want to include them in your notes, and have access to a scanner, it is reasoable to include GIFs or JPEGs in the file, and use the file notes.html to link to those files. Those files should also be in the same directory (i.e. ~/public_html/cisc105/notes/mm.dd). You can also include .c files in that directory as well, and make reference to them in your notes.txt, notes.html, or notes.pdf file.
After making sure your notes are readable on the web, post to the bulliten board in WebCT to announce their availability. Post ONLY the URL, not a summary of the notes. Include the date of your notes in the subject line when you post. If you are going for the consolation prize (i.e. if you are NOT the first to post for a particular date), include in your posting a brief description of what is "new" or "different" in your submission (i.e. what previous posters of notes for that day missed.)
***end of extra credit description***