CS 1206 Extra Credit Assignment

Due Friday, August 7th , 1999 by 5:00 pm

100 points (replaces your lowest HW score)

Putting up a Web page about yourself

The goal of this assignment is to post a World Wide Web page that contains some information about yourself. The purpose is to give your teachers a relatively easy way to get to know their students. The page you put up will contain your name, photograph, and a short paragraph or two describing yourself.

You are not required to complete this assignment-it is completely optional. It is recommended, however, that you do this assignment; getting to know your teachers (and your teachers getting to know you) is good for you. This page might also be useful to teachers you may have in the future.

Of course, your web page should follow the CS Department Acceptable Use Guidelines (which may only be accessible from within the .cs.vt.edu domain) and the Virginia Tech Acceptable Use of Information Systems Guidelines. (In other words, don't put anything inappropriate on your web pages, or you'll be in really big trouble.)

How to complete the assignment

Step 1:

You should create an HTML file that contains all of the requested information:

A picture of you (head shot preferred, like a senior photo)
Your name
Your major
Your academic level (Freshman, Sophomore, etc.)
Your home town
Your email address, if you like
A few paragraphs decribing yourself, your interests, your hobbies, etc.

If you'd like, you can download this template and fill in the blanks. You can save this template either by right-clicking on the link and choosing "Save link as...", or by following the link and choosing "Save As..." from the "File" menu (assuming that you're using Netscape). Then edit the file and put the appropriate information in the right places (surrounded by **-you'll see). In fact, it is preferred that you use this template so that all students will have consistent pages.

Step 2:

You should post the assignment on either your CSLab account, or the VT Filebox (click here for information on how to use the VT Filebox). If you are not a CS major or minor, then your CSLab account will be deleted at the end of the semester, and it is strongly recommended that you get a VT Filebox instead of using your CSLab account. If your home directory is in /home/other, then you fall into this category.

If you have a CSLab account, and would like to use it to publish your page, then first log in under Unix. If you do not have a directory called "WWW" (without the quotes) in your home directory, make one there. This WWW directory is where all your web pages will go, including the one for this assignment. The permissions on this directory must be set to rwxr-xr-x. You can do this from your home directory by typing chmod 755 WWW. You should name your file "1206-bio.html" (all HTML files should have the .html extension), and you should place it right in your WWW directory (not in a subdirectory). You should also place a .gif or .jpeg photo of you in the same directory. You can either edit your file under Unix (using vi, emacs, or any other editor you like) or use FTP to transfer the file to your WWW directory from some other computer. Once you have your file in the WWW directory, you can access it through http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~pid/1206-bio.html (where pid is your PID, of course).

Step 3:

Mail the URL to your page to cs1206@ei.cs.vt.edu with a subject line consisting of "Extra Credit". You should get an immediate acknowledgement back. If you used the VT Filebox, your URL will look like "http://www.vt.edu:10021/P/pid/1206-bio.html". If you used your CSLab account, it will look like "http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~mfali/1206-bio.html".