Sessions

1997 March-April

M Mar 10

Introduction to the elective. Assignment.

T Mar 11

Word processing. FTP. Assignment.

W Mar 12

E-mail: VMS MAIL and Pine; discussion lists. Assignment.

T Mar 13

Discussion of readings. FTP (again). Assignment.

M Mar 17

Using Peruse, including Medline and Current Contents. Assignment.

W Mar 19

World Wide Web: browsing and searching. Assignment.

T Mar 20

HTML 1. Assignment. Assignment.

F Mar 21

Cancelled.

M Mar 24

HTML 2 (links, images, putting Web pages on Mystic. Assignment. Assignment.

T Mar 25

Computer hardware, binary arithmetic. Assignment.

W Mar 26

Computer software; discussion of readings.

T Mar 27

Discussion of readings.

F,M Mar 28, 31

Easter

W Apr 1

Graphics concepts. Encoding text and graphics.

T Apr 2

How to choose a computer.

T Apr 3

Database concepts.

F Apr 4

Presentations of class home pages.