Required Texts

Required Text:

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Niederst, Jennifer, Learning Web Design : A Beginner's Guide to HTML, Graphics, and Beyond (O'Reilly & Associates, March 2001)
ISBN: 0596000367

Suggested Text:

Additionally, you might want to buy a Dreamweaver book to help you learn the software we will be using later in this course. The lab has just upgraded to Dreamweaver 4.0.

Dreamweaver 4.0 Quickstart Guide by J. Tarin Towers [$15.39 at Amazon]

Handouts/ Online Reading:

In addition there will also be required reading handouts and online readings throughout the semester. These include:

History of the Internet (handout)
An Introduction to HTML (handout)
What is HTML? (handout)
Web Aesthetics (handout)
Ways of Seeing, Ways of Being by Steve Tomasula (online)
Sherry Turkle's Life On The Screen-- introduction, chap. 1, chap. 10 (handout)
Sex, Lies and Avatars, from WIRED magazine, pages 1-3 (online)
"The Artist's Angst is All in Your Head" NY Times article 11/16/97 (handout)
Benjamin Wooley's Intro to Virtual Worlds (online)

Required Viewing:

The Matrix, 1999 (film) available at library VHS8486
And many, many Web Sites