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1 Course Technologies
1.1 Course WWW Pages
This course has a fairly extensive set of WWW pages associated with it.
For help using these pages, you might want to look at:
1.2 Safari Books
Several books used in this course are available online from Safari
Books. They are available free to members of the JMU community.
If you have trouble accessing these books from off campus, you
might want to look at:
1.3 WebEx
CS531 is a "hybrid" course, which means that it will have both
distance and local students. Local students can have a
physical presence at lectures, distance students can
have a tele-presence at lectures (if they want to), and all students can
access the recorded lectures on-line. We will be using WebEx
products to enable this.
Links to the lectures can be found on the
Canvas "Page" of "Recorded Lectures"
1.4 stu
"stu" (actually
stu.cs.jmu.edu) is a Linux box that is running,
among other things, an HTTP server that you will use for WWW programming.
Some specific help is available at:
General help on Linux is available from many sources.
2 Course Topics/Learning Outcomes
Obviously, a great deal has been written about the topics covered
in this class. If you're looking for help (or just for more information)
you might want to look at the following:
For documentation on a variety of different programming languages,
You should also consider looking at:
3 The Oxford English Dictionary
Of course, you need to understand the things you read.
The OED is a tremendous resource in this regard.
It is available on-line at
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