A rhetorical question: What will students need to know to be able to submit an assignment on a Web page with a specific format?<\/p>\n
We could make up a form they fill out, with little work on their part, but why not have students create the tools they need? This goes along with my previous post<\/a> about having student learn what they need to know rather than what an external authority – the instructor\/text book tells them they should learn.<\/p>\n Let’s start with what the submission needs to look like – we’ll start at http:\/\/people.umw.edu\/~ernie\/handin.html<\/a><\/p>\n If I’m going to be working with that then we’ll have to come up with the requirements for a program that will produce a Web page of that format.<\/p>\n We can start with the source – in good XHTML format, and then we’ll have to determine how to prompt for a file name, open a file, read it, and write it to the file that’s acting as the source for the Webpage.<\/p>\n