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CMPT 165
Introduction to Multimedia and
the Internet
Course Information
• Instructor: Sarah Brown
• Email: [email protected]
– MUST have CMPT 165 in subject
• Office hours: TBA, until then by
appointment only
• TAs: TBA
• Course website:
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/CC/165/sbrown1/
– will be updated by Friday
Marking
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30% assignments, probably 4
20% Midterm
50% Final
You must attain an overall passing grade on the
weighted average of the exams
• Late assignments incur a 10% penalty per day
• Assignments which cannot be marked because of
password protection, errors in files, or any other problem
resulting from student error will also incur a late penalty
• Assignments will have to be put on the CMPT165 server
– Contact Ivan Matousek [email protected] for access
ASAP
Academic Dishonesty
• Cheating on an assignment will result in a
0 mark for that assignment
• Cheating on an exam will result in a
recommendation of an F for the course
Copyright
• You cannot use another person’s material,
whether written or images unless that material is
1. copyright free, or 2. you have received
permission from the author to use it.
– You can summarize text, but not copy
• You must reference all information you use from
another source, including a link to that source if
it is online.
• Failure to do this falls under academic
dishonesty
Textbooks
• Required:
– Study Guide (course pack)
– How to Think Like a Computer Scientist:
Learning with Python
• Not strictly required
• Optional:
– The Internet Book
– Designing with Web Standards
– The Non-Designer's Design Book
Content Covered
• The Internet and how it works
• Good webpage design
• XHTML
– All work must be done “by hand”
– No graphical web editors may be used, e.g.
Dreamweaver, FrontPage
• CSS – Cascading Style Sheets
• Python programming
Required Software
• Browser:
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Firefox (recommended)
Mozilla
Netscape 7
Safari
Please do not use Internet Explorer
• Python
– www.python.org/download
• Text Editor
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TextPad for Windows
Emacs
Any will really do
Do NOT use a word processor (like Microsoft Word)
Questions?