This is a rare class that is no affected by Thanksgiving! Since we have lectures on Tuesdays, and assignments due at the beginning of the week…
Hopefully, you will be wrapping up the old stuff (Programming Puzzle 4 and 5). This week we’re moving on to a very different kind of topic: visual design. No, we can’t teach you to be a designer in a week. But hopefully, we can at least raise your awareness of design issues and start you along the path to being a better designer. (if you’re already good, you can always be better).
So please take the design assignment seriously: it will help you far beyond your CS classes. If you ever make a resume, a web page, a flyer – or arguably anything – the ability to have some design awareness is helpful. Actually, even if you never make anything, being aware of what you’re looking at will be helpful.
So, please do the reading for the design assignment – it has 2 required postings for the discussion, but you’ll get a lot more out of it if you actually discuss it with the people in your discussion group.
