UCI ICS 80W, Homework 4

For lab the week of 18-21 July 1995

Before you begin, read this entire document.

The goals this week are to:

  1. Preparation and Set up
    1. Restore your Netscape environment from floppy disk
    2. Log in to Clyde with NCSA Telnet
  2. Overview of this week's Assignment
    As explained last week, the end result of this assignment will be a hypertext-enhanced essay on a topic of your choice, from 300-400 words long, which includes at least 10 hypertext links to on-line resources related to your topic.
    You will first compose this essay longhand, then convert it into an HTML document. You will use the search engines available in the Web to find the documents and other resources to link to. Finally, you will add the links, and validate your HTML. For a sense of how the final document will look and behave, review Section 1 of the Vannevar Bush essay, As We May Think.
  3. Write the Hypertext Essay
    1. Monday: Select an essay topic
      During lecture on Monday in ELH 110, you will be given a paper form on which you will enter the essay topic you selected over the weekend. In some cases, you may be asked by your instructor to select a new topic, in which case your instructor will work with you on Tuesday to do so.
    2. Tuesday: Create a starter file
      In Netscape, go to the fill-out form which has been provided (URL http://www.ics.uci.edu/~aisi/80W/doc/HW4.topic.html), and re-submit your topic electronically. When this form is run, it will produce a skeleton essay document which Netscape will display. Save this document (Save As in Netscape), and transfer (Fetch) it to your clyde account in your public_html/ht directory as hw4.html.
    3. Tuesday: Type in preliminary essay
      Edit hw4.html with pico, typing in the draft essay you have already written as the body of the document. It would be a good idea to place paragraph markers (<P>) at the end of each paragraph. Review this document with Netscape. If you have extra time, continue with the next section.
    4. Thursday: Research your topic
      • Use Netscape to bring up a copy of your draft essay. Use the Print feature to print out a draft.
      • Use at least two of the recommended Web search engines to find on-line resources related to your essay. Save all candidate documents into your bookmarks.
      • Mark up your print-out, underlining words or phrases in your essay which you will link to the on-line resources you are discovering with the search engines.
      Remember: you will be expected to include at least 10 links from your essay to other Web documents.
      Caution: save your bookmarks to your floppy disk before you leave class today.
    5. Friday: Mark up your Essay
      Using the bookmarks you saved, edit your hw4.html file to make the links you planned yesterday.
    6. Friday: Verify your HTML
      The starter file includes a link to a program which will check whether your document contains proper HTML.
      • Bring up your current hw4.html file, and click on the HTML 2.0 Checked link.
      • Scroll down to the Check Documents by URL section and type in (or copy-and-paste) the URL for your hw4.html file.
      • Click on Submit URLs for validation.
        If the program returns with a list of errors, work with your instructor or tutor to correct your hw4.html file and repeat this step until the program reports No errors found.
      Mail the URL of your completed hw4.html file to aisi@ics.uci.edu.