• DUE: Ch. 1 & 2 notes from Neuromancer
  • Things to do:
  • make a schedule for finishing Neuromancer
  •     e.g., finish Part I this week
  • pick a character and topic (due Oct. 11)
  •     e.g., Case and organ replacement
  •     e.g., Molly and artificial sight
  • continue to take notes on your character (due Oct. 11)
  • research your topic (e.g., what is the state of the art in organ transplants? what does the future hold?)

• IN LAB (csLab)
  (see Labs)
  • Finding and filtering your own personal online news
  • How to handle the "soon to be available" realtime access to your biological, economic, family, news, and entertainment data?
  • bioAgent: if i am correct, your DNA gene regulatory sequences show a serious long-term defect. (case 0x3FF)

    Resources:
    HTML: http://www.gettingstarted.net/
    A community of web professionals named Project Cool has pages of tutorials.

    The National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
    HTML Primer.

   

• TO PREPARE FOR TODAY
  1. Complete Gibson's Neuromancer.

• IN CLASS
  1. HTML and JavaScript

• DUE: your homepage is up to date

• IN LAB: (csLab)
  (see Labs)
  • Static HTML and why we need JavaScript
    • Online help in HTML: tutorials and a primer.
    • a JavaScript scriptorium
  • Working with dates
  • What was Y2K?

• OCTOBER BREAK

• DUE: topic of Paper #2: your character/topic and your reading notes from Neuromancer (at least as far as Part I)

• TO PREPARE FOR TODAY
  1. Read and take notes of Harel's chapters 1 & 2 (from Computers Ltd. - what computers really can't do. There are lots of details here. Take your time as you read and take good notes (see bibliography).

• IN CLASS
  1. A "writing moment" (from a Pocket Style Manual)
     • (9) Find an appropriate voice
     • (10) Make subjects and verbs agree

  2. Midsemester evaluation -- how are things going?
  3. Lecture
     • Harel's chapter 1 - recipe's, algorithms, software
     • programming languages, compilers, software development environments
     • Harel's chapter 2 - computers can not solve all types of problems, really!
     • The Turing Test. (see Links).
     • It's not that what computing is doing and will do isn't exciting, it is. Limits are sometimes hard but necessary to face, in computing as in much of life.

• DUE: Neuromancer - Paper #2

• TO PREPARE FOR TODAY
  1. Brush up on your HTML and read through some of the JavaScript helps.

• IN CLASS
  1. A "writing moment" (from a Pocket Style Manual)
     • (11) Be alert to other problems with verbs
     • (12) Use pronouns with care

  2. Lecture: Writing Software (in JavaScript)
  3. "bugs" revisited ...

MIDSEMESTER

• IN LAB: (csLab)
  (see Labs)
  • generating pseudo-random numbers,
    "like totally random, man"

• TO PREPARE FOR TODAY
  1. Continue to work on your homepage; add more JavaScript ...

• IN CLASS
  1. A "writing moment" (from a Pocket Style Manual)
     • (13) Choose adjectives and adverbs with care
     • (14) Repair sentence fragments

  2. Lecture: More JavaScript ...
  3. Forms and functions

  4. examples of ChatterBots
  5. How to build a ChatterBot.

• IN LAB (csLab)
  (see Labs)
  • Making Decisions: if-else
  • generating pseudo-random numbers, eh?
• <forms> and functions
• Text input for a ChatterBot.
• (1) Getting the input is trivial. (2) Now what does it mean? (3) How should your bot respond?
• Grrrr, is this a hard problem or what?