Richard G Baldwin (512) 223-4758, NRG Room 4238, Baldwin@DickBaldwin.com, http://www.austincc.edu/baldwin/

ITSE2321 Object-Oriented Programming

This material applies to classroom sections and Open Campus (PCM) sections taught by Professor Baldwin.

Online Orientation Material

Fall 2007

Revised: 08/20/07

The official web page for this course is http://www.austincc.edu/baldwin/Fall07/Itse2321WebPage/ITSE2321.htm

Online Orientation

PCM classes at ACC require that the student attend orientation at the beginning of the semester.  I require orientation for classroom sections in addition to PCM classes.  All orientation for this class is provided online. If you have completed these online orientation procedures and still need personal orientation, please visit me during my regular office hours.

To accomplish online orientation, visit the links on the official web page for this course.  The link to the official web page is given above.

Then send me an email message at Baldwin@DickBaldwin.com stating explicitly that you have read, understand, and will comply with the information and instructions provided by the following documents which are accessible at those links.

If you follow these instructions carefully, your email message will serve two different purposes.  First, it will verify that you have completed online orientation.  Second, it will provide your email address to me in a form that is useful.

This second requirement is often a problem because many of you have email addresses that do not include your last name.  Even if it does include your last name, there is often something ahead of your last name.  Therefore, an alphabetical listing of email addresses is useless when I need to locate your email address.

Therefore, please begin the subject line of your email message with your last name and cause it to read as follows:

LastName, FirstName, ITSE2321, online orientation complete

Then I can sort the messages by the subject line and find your email address on the basis of your last name in the subject line.  If you don't do this, don't expect me to send email messages to you with important information such as your performance on tests.

Please also include your name, work telephone, and home telephone in the body of the email message.

During the semester, you should consider me to be a tutor who has been hired to help you succeed.  I can't know that you are having problems if you don't let me know.  If I don't hear from you, I will assume that you are understanding everything, and it is not likely that you will hear very much from me.

If you, like many others, procrastinate and save your questions until the weekend before an exam deadline, don't be surprised if you don't get a response from me until after the exam deadline has passed. The weekend before an exam deadline is not the time for you to begin trying to learn how to program in Java.

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