ME39C | Spring 1997 | Handouts & Lecture Notes | Week 7 What's Hot/What's Not
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WEEK 7 [ What's Hot in ME39C | What's Not Hot in ME39C ] Whats Hot Hands on dissection Our own web page yay! Disk drive assembly "game" Personality Test Using the internet to discover information easily and efficiently. The ability to create web pages on the WWW. Learning multimedia skills while having fun. This class has been very enjoyable while being educational at the same time like disassembling things such as the hard disk and the mattel color spin toy. This class gives a "hands on" approach on how mechanical things actually work. I get a kick out of being able to take things apart and see how they work. Learning how to make a web page has been fun (although frustrating also!) I look forward to the case studies, although I don't know where I'll get enough time to work on them! I learning a lot about the web and about computers Peer help The experience of doing my own homepage! I've been wating to do this for quite sometime and now I am able to Opportunity to familiarize with these spiffy programs Each person learns very different things, each person takes very different things from class Get to do stuff on computers that is different from a traditionally structured course. Focus on web isn't really offered in other courses yet. The availability to use these machines any time, and the fact that they have so many great programs/applications Learned about web, so far informative and fun Goes by quickly I really like this class. There isn't much I can think of to improve this class. Its fun, educational, and different. Making a homepage The most interesting part of the class is creating my homepage I also think it is quite interesting to create a disk drive. I think it's a good way to understand each component of the disk drive. Lots of experimentation Many different applications to use (brief introductions to them) Interesting case studies Taking things apart is fairly itneresting (hands on work) Opportunity to play around and explore by ourselves Pure code (e.g., text editor for HTML) This class is not hard at all. Comparing with other classes I'm taking right now, this class is fun and it's the onyl one that I can relax. Not Hot Slow computers (Mac's) crashing I don't see anything bad about this class So far I enjoyed everything! Not a log of interaction between students sitting on one side of the lab and the other Some of the programs do not have certain programs and they tend to "crash" sometimes Disparity between the computer literate and others Mac's keep crashing. As of yet, course doesn't seem to have too much substance. Ex. Web page never covered topics such as java scripting, image maps, cgis, etc. HDD game was somewhat cursory. I can't download any programs (oh well!) These things crash too much! Sometimes its a little slow Need a few more group exercises. There's a lot of individual work. Not on computers of course its hard to share one. I think there are some people who already know most of the applications we are using (e.g., Photoshop, HTML, etc.). For those who don't, I hope you can maybe hand out short instruction sheets for each application with basic examples. They don't have to be page after page long, but can include most commonly used commands, simple illustrations, etc. Using HTML tedious, long My homepage is not as interesting as many others who know more about HTML than me. Maybe too much lag time Too many computer malfunctions Pace could be faster More efficient ways to create HTML files than BBEdit Perhaps introduce more features (image maps, etc.) and tools

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