The official web page for this course is ITSE1356.htm
Failure to comply with the instructions usually results in a failing grade for the assignment, often zero.
The assignments for this course are take-home assignments. You may use any reference material that you have available. However, you are instructed not to obtain assistance from anyone.
Assignments are posted in Blackboard. There is a zip file associated with each assignment that you can download from Blackboard. The zip files have names like Asg01.zip, Asg02.zip ... Asg15.zip.
Each of the zip files contains an assignment specification document (Asg01.htm for example) and any other files that you may need to complete the assignment.
Each assignment requires that you successfully solve one problem involving XML, XSL, DTD, or a combination of the three.
Extract the contents of the zip file into an empty folder. Then open the AsgXX.htm file in your browser to view the specifications for the assignment.
You may submit each assignment up to two times before the deadline shown in the syllabus. Your highest score among the two scores for each assignment will be used to compute your final grade.
Your name
Your name is required one or more times in the solution file for every assignment. The assignment specifications will indicate where your name must appear. If there is any confusion as to where your name must appear, please discuss this with me at least one week prior to the assignment deadline. (If your name does not appear, I will assume that the material that you submitted does not constitute your own work and you will not get credit for the assignment.)
Your name in the zip file
Include your name in the name of the zip file that you submit. This will help me avoid getting your zip file mixed up with another student's zip file when I retrieve them from Blackboard. A suitable example file name is:
Baldwin.Asg01.zip
No partial credit
I will score your assignments in the manner explained in the assignment document.
Each assignment will be graded either right or wrong. Partial credit will not be given for assignment solutions that fail to fully conform with these instructions and with the assignment specifications. If one of your assignments doesn't conform, don't bother submitting it.
You should study all of the ITSE1356 material in my online e-book titled Introduction to XML. You should also study the following material in the textbook:
Submit your assignment using the Blackboard Assignment feature.
Although I am unable to see the student's view of the Blackboard interface, the following instructions should be approximately correct.
If I am unable to successfully unzip the file that you submitted, or if it contains the wrong material, you will not get credit for the assignment.
The submission deadline for each assignment is provided in the Syllabus each semester. In most cases, the assignment will expire and disappear from Blackboard when the deadline passes. The penalty for failing to meet the submission deadline is simply that you won't get credit for the assignment.
Before you ask, let me tell you that a temporary Blackboard outage, business travel, problems at work, extreme work pressures, divorce, depression, receipt of a "Dear John letter", automobile repairs, flat tires, computer problems, power failures, total eclipses, extremely high outside temperatures, high pollen count, broken lawnmowers, the Super Bowl Schedule, and other assorted and interesting circumstances are not valid excuses for failing to meet the submission deadline. About the only excuse that I might be willing to accept would be something on the order of extended hospitalization or extended serious illness on the part of you or an immediate member of your family. If your excuse is not on that order of magnitude, I really don't want to hear it.
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File: ITSE1356AsgInstructions.htm