[CSC 125] E-Mails and Course Enrollment

[Andrew J. Pounds]

Good morning Summer CSC 125 Students --

Well the time for the class is just about upon us.   I will tell you 
that I have COMPLETELY revised this course to make it more "friendly" 
for those that are abroad and/or are using systems other than PC's (the 
former version of this class could only completed using a PC running 
Windows).   I have also made the course much more cost effective because 
I am not requiring you to purchase a text, any software keys to run 
textbook vendor software, or any commercial software.   However, the 
revisions in the course require that we communicate more frequently.  
Our primary tool for that is e-mail.

To facilitate better communication, I rebuilt my mail server and web 
server back in late May.  I also have subscribed all of your Mercer 
e-mail addresses to my listserve.  In some cases I also subscribed 
additional e-mail addresses for some of you that sent them to me.

Please go to the following web page 
<http://theochem.mercer.edu/mailman/listinfo/csc125> and add your G-Mail 
account and any other e-mail addresses you might check.   If your e-mail 
is already subscribed it will tell you.  If not, then it will be added.

An added benefit of this server is that you can send e-mails to the 
entire class by sending messages to

csc125 at theochem.mercer.edu

This is a moderated list -- so I check all the messages that go through 
the server.  This protects us all from spammers.

The class web page <http://theochem.mercer.edu/csc125> is where I will 
disseminate much of the information that you need.  There is a basic 
page in place there now -- but the content there will grow substantially 
this weekend as I start to migrate from my pre-release server to the 
production server.

Finally -- while we have a good enrollment, and there is no chance of 
the course being dropped, a bigger class makes for a much more enjoyable 
experience for all of us.  If you have any friends thats are looking for 
a class this summer, please encourage them to take the class.   We are 
going to be doing some things that I am sure are new to most of you.  In 
addition to the "normal" things like building documents and 
spreadsheets,  I have also included some advanced topics like 
"Programming Graphics for a Green Screen", "Relational Databases for 
Pharmaceuticals", and "Scripting Google Spreadsheets for Stock Market 
Analysis".  The idea here is to open your eyes to some of the really 
powerful things you can do with computing that go far beyond just using 
Word and Excel.

I've been busy --  but it's all targeted to introductory college 
students that have some knowledge of how to navigate the internet.

Don't forget to sign up on the listserve 
<http://theochem.mercer.edu/mailman/listinfo/csc125>!

A. Pounds

-- 
Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D.  (pounds at theochem.mercer.edu)
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science
Mercer University,  Macon, GA 31207   (478) 301-5627

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