SOFT6008 Class 01 Lab Typing & Sharing

Since this was our first class it was a bit strange having a lab when we never had a lecture. So it was mostly a typing exercise.

I gave out two JavaScript examples and asked students to type them up in notepad. That'll save time in the next class.

I asked students to set up dropbox folders for their class for this work and to share it with me (ideally read-only). This would allow me to monitor student progress continuously and to very quickly spot problems and offer help. It does raise some privacy issues too. Please name the folder with SOFT6008 followed by your myCIT user name (e.g SOFT6008-Dan.Murphy). Share it with colin.manning@cit.ie. Hopefully that won't screw up my quota. If you don't already use dropbox please sign-up here.

I will invite students taking this class to join Google+. I propose to see if Google+ can be of use in education. Google+ is very like Facebook except that it is much easier to control what one shares with whom.  So use this feature wisely and don't over-share with me!

I have a circle for each class group, so I can post items relevant to individual classes.

To be honest I don't yet know what I will use Google+ for. It's an experiment.

As computing professionals in the making, students should probably join Google+ anyway just to know how it works.


These images required for Random Image example. But of course you can use any images as long as they have the correct names.