Please make sure your filebox webpage is not password protected. If it is, we will be unable to retrieve your page and as a result you will receive a zero.

The default permissions of a filebox are `admin only,' which means password protected. This can be changed by logging into http://filebox.vt.edu and clicking on the `edit' button for access restrictions.

I anticipate that most of you will need to do this to make your page available to everyone on the internet without a password.

The WWW homepage assignment is now available here. This is the official specification for the assignment. The assignment is due at 11:55pm on Sunday, 17 November 2002.

I have received a number of mails about this assignment over the past two months to which I have not responded. This announcement and the assignment specification serve as an answer to all such inquiries.

The MS Visual C++.NET/Acrobat Quiz is now available for CS1044 students who used Pete DePasquale's Sandbox programming environment (either with or without subset support).

The deadline for the MS Visual C++.NET/Acrobat quiz is 11:55pm, Sunday 10 Nov. 2002.
The MS Visual C++.NET Debugging quiz will be available on Monday 11 Nov. 2002.
The deadline for the MS Visual C++.NET Debugging quiz is 11:55pm, Sunday 17 Nov. 2002.

This announcement only applies to 92 students.

Due to an error beyond our control, all first-semester students received an Unsatisfactory as a mid-term grade.

In order to determine your midterm grade, please take an average of all your quizzes scores and map it to a letter grade using our point distribution table.

I apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused you.

Recently, I have received a number of inquires regarding the spreadsheet, slides, and DB supplemental tutorial notes and practice quiz. The post serves to answer such inquires. The material is supplemental and thus the associated quiz is optional. Under no circumstances will it count toward your final grade. You may notice that the tutorial is somewhat dated; we will not be updating it this term.

Many of you who have received mid-term grades have contacted me. Mid-term grades were an average of all your current quiz scores. If you are using the CS1 Sandbox and thus did not submit the two .NET quizzes, your scores for those two quizzes were temporarily set to zero. You will submit those quizzes in a few weeks. You can compute a mid-term grade as an average of the other quizzes you have submitted. This mail serves as a response to all your inquiries.

The next five quizzes are now available on WebCT.

The deadline for the USENET News/Telnet and HTML quizzes is 11:55pm, Sunday 20 Oct. 2002.
The deadline for the Graphics & GIFs quiz is 11:55pm, Sunday 27 Oct. 2002.
The deadline for the Image Maps & Frames quiz is 11:55pm, Sunday 3 Nov. 2002.
The deadline for the Java & JavaScript quiz is 11:55pm, Sunday 10 Nov. 2002.

Many of you are completing and submitting WebCT quizzes successfully. Some of you are not however which results in ungraded quizzes. This is due to you responding to all of the questions and not hitting the submit button. You need to hit the submit button for your quiz to be graded properly. Please see the dialog through. Furthermore, please follow the WebCT tutorial closely. I recommend that you re-read the WebCT tutorial. If you are in the process of submitting, make sure to wait for your grade.

In these cases, I have been manually forcing WebCT to grade your quiz. After my Thursday office hours this week, I will no longer manually force WebCT to grade ungraded quizzes. At the end of the semester, all ungraded quizzes will receive a score of zero. It is your responsibility to successfully submit a quiz.

Once again, we ask those students enrolled in CS1044 (majors-only sections) AND those using Pete DePasquale's Sandbox programming environment (either with or without subset support) to delay completing the debugging quiz in CS1204 this week until you use .NET in CS1044 (late October).

Those students NOT enrolled in a CS1044 section, or those in CS1044 who are using .NET to complete their programming work (at home and in the lab) MUST complete the debugging CS1204 quiz this week as scheduled.

The next four quizzes are now available on WebCT.

The deadline for the MS Visual C++.NET Debugging and Web Searching quizzes is 11:55pm, Sunday 29 Sep. 2002.
The deadline for the Security and Synchronous Communication quizzes is 11:55pm, Sunday 6 Oct. 2002.

As a result of getting everything setup at the start of this semester, we have extended the deadline for Quiz 1: the MS Visual C++.NET/Acrobat quiz to 11:55pm, Sunday 15 Sep. 2002. Please note that this extension does not affect any of the other quiz deadlines.

I ask you to please adhere to the following guidelines for all email communication with me.

1. Browse the course webpages throughly (especially the schedule and announcements page) for an answer to your question before asking.
2. Browse the forum messages throughly for an answer to your question before asking.
3. Include your name, pid, and course number in the subject or body of a message.

Those students enrolled in CS1044 (majors-only sections) AND those using Pete DePasquale's Sandbox programming environment (either with or without subset support) are being asked to delay completing the .NET assignment in CS1204 this week until you use .NET in CS1044 (late October).

In order to attempt to limit exposure to .NET by these students we are asking you to complete the assignment later this semester (will announce when) without penalty to you.

Those students NOT enrolled in the CS1044 sections, or those in CS1044 who are using .NET to complete their programming work (at home and in the lab) MUST complete the .NET CS1204 quiz this week as scheduled.

This change affects only about 120 students.

The first three graded quizzes are now available on WebCT.

The deadline for the MS Visual C++.NET/Acrobat quiz is 11:55pm, Sunday 8 Sep. 2002.
The deadline for the FTP and Compression quizzes is 11:55pm, Sunday 15 Sep. 2002.

The reason that some of you who are running Windows XP cannot view the Java menu applet on our course webpages (or are having problems with it) is due to Microsoft not supplying the latest Java support to XP. I direct anyone running Windows XP to http://java.sun.com/getjava/download.html, where you can download and install the necessary Java plugin for XP.

If you were not in attendance due to a course conflict, please review an outline of the meeting. To access this information from the menubar follow the Notes -> Organization link sequence. Each student is responsible for this information.

The only REQUIRED meeting for CS 1204 is on Monday Aug. 26 at 5:00PM in Donaldson Brown Auditorium. Students NOT attending this organizational meeting will be automatically dropped!