Homework

In an attempt to write about something not horrible that happened in my past, tonight I will describe my online class and the homework from it. Also, I think I've run out of horribleness from my past, but I'll keep you posted.

So, my class is about designing web pages. Or, more specifically, coding them. The text book that we are supposed to be working from is riddled with typos. A few of which cost me a couple points in the class due to A) not knowing what the book really wanted me to do for my homework, which would normally not be a problem except that B) I can't read the professors mind , and he doesn't really seem to do anything other than record completely useless "lecture videos" and tell us to read the book, so C) (see A). Get the picture?

Now, I don't mean to trash talk the professor, I've never had him in a real class, so who knows, maybe he's really good at the whole "in class" thing, but then again, maybe he sucks there too. Who knows? Either way, this online class sucks. As to which case is the reason for the suckage, I'm going to faithfully assert that it is the fault of the online nature of the class. This is based on the fact that I spoke with one of the other professors in the CIS department at my school and he said that overwhelmingly, neither the professors nor the students like the online classes, and many, many, many of them have said so, but the school people don't care and are actually pushing for more classes to be made online because they're cheaper or something (that last bit is my guess, I really don't know why, the other professor didn't say).

It doesn't help that the quizzes that the teacher gives are in a different lexicon than the book. For example, the book calls this certain thing "linking to an 'ID'." However, when the teacher writes the quiz on it, he calls the 'ID' an 'anchor'. No where does the book call anything an anchor. Example number 2: In one of the quizzes he asks which are all the types of relative measurements when making a web page. The correct answer included the "ex" measurement. Our book does not mention the "ex" measurement. Anywhere. At all. I looked. /Sigh

Anyway, so the last homework that I just got done doing had this as one of the parts:

"3. Insert a comment above the floating frame indicating its purpose on the Web Page."

So I wrote this in the code I turned in: Quote -

Theoretically, the purpose of the frame is to show pictures of the home for sale so that you can click the links to the left over there and then we can display all kinds of photos of the house without having to open a new window or make you click the back button after each photo takes you to a different photo page. Realistically, however, the purpose of this floating frame is to get credit for doing my homework. Hopefully your browser supports this functionality. If it doesn't, you should upgrade to the latest version of firefox. Also, you should see the picture of the house anyway because we've included this nifty alternate content code block. But the real question here is: "Can mobile homes rampage?"

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Mind you, adding the links and making them point at the inline frame in question wasn't done till step 5. So unless you did the homework backwards, or read ahead, or already knew and hence don't really need to be in this class, you really had no idea what its purpose was and so couldn't actually answer the question properly. I'm pretty sure this is the worse edited text book I have ever personally seen.

Oh, and I had a pretty darn good weekend. I confessed a certain something to someone, and although I was quite worried about the process, it turned out pretty darn good in the end.

And now, time for my push ups & sit ups.