Welcome

Hello CPPers,

This is an example of the kind of blog you will be asked to create for this course. You can design them to be as individual as you like - no need to stick to blogger if you're familiar with other blog servers (so long as the server you choose provides an RSS feed). Once you've all created your blogs, the postings from the different student blogs will be fed into tutorial "blog rolls" like the one you see in the upper right hand corner of this page. This means you'll have easy access to what everyone is doing.

Feel free to post questions, comments, arguments, reflections... anything, really, so long as it has something to do with the course. I'll be putting up a "best of" posting after the tutes each week on this blog, mentioning the highlights of the tutorial discussion. If you think I've missed anything good, or have more to say, jump in and post a comment, or start a new discussion from your blog.

To get started, if you're working with Google you'll need to:

1. Create a google account (if you don't already have one).
2. Create a blog.
3. Give me the URL of your blog - either directly, or via email.
4. I will then collect all the "feeds" from your blogs into a single feed for each tutorial group. These feeds will appear on the course blog.
5. You'll notice that this will make it easy to find other people's blogs. You can then post comments on their blogs, as well as making posts to your own blog.

If this all seems a bit confusing, DON'T PANIC. You'll be guided through the process of creating your blog during tutorials in the first week of the course.

- Justine