Attention, Danger!

The first week showed that a number of students are at high risk of failing the course by not starting communicating their results earlier than the last day!

The attendance and necessary effort are at regrettable levels and have to be dramatically changed for those who hasn't started showing the completion of tasks or partial work with clearly demonstrated problems by Sunday. Not only such approach puts you at great risk (as the past experience showed) but it will get you low points for attendance and effort that can improve your grades even with poor tests or lower them. In addition, as I wrote in the Information about the Course file on Moodle, because of the extreme importance of early attempts and to stimulate them - the help WILL NOT be provided the last day before the deadline (Monday), unless you've started communicating with me before that. Since most of you are working toward the Web Development Certificate by taking or planning to take other necessary courses - failure in this course (grade below C) will throw you back by at least one year (when this course will be offered again). This is why I am issuing this harsh warning  - to make your work in this course MUCH easier, your knowledge/skills much more solid, and decrease the risk of failing it to the min. This week was especially important because problems with installation might indicate your poor computer skills (insufficient for this course along with poor attendance and effort) AND prevent you from doing the tasks of the next week.

ALL labs for ALL weeks should be completed since the following tasks are based on them.. Reminding you that 3 missed tasks or done on the zero grade level will fail you in this course. If you couldn't complete the task just because of starting late - you will get Zero points, fail one task AND will still have to do it early next week FOR NOW POINTS AWARDED.

The course is not difficult if to do the work early, make corrections and get advice/help if necessary AND QUICKLY respond to my comments to your own posts! You should also log in daily to check the way the development is going on by other students in their posts and comments to them, as well as READING ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING in Q&A and MY BLOG. This will allow you to understand the problems in advance, plan time better, and get help from the experience of others.

Please think about this post, make corrections in your performance and read your email tomorrow which SOME  of you might get.