Spring Students

The Summer Quarter begins next Monday on July 3rd… Sooo, I will be updating this site this week by removing my Spring classes and replacing them with my Summer classes. If there is a resource that you need, e-mail me and let me know.

I will be posting a table of links to your Spring Quarter projects for all my classes. You can then easily view the projects of your classmates and see the work of students in other classes. This table will only be available until July 3rd as the CTIS staff will be deleting the UNIX accounts for Spring Quarter to make way for the Summer accounts. At that time, most of the links will no longer be valid so I will remove the table.

Ensure that you have a copy of all of your files stored on your local hard drive. Your accounts on the CTIS web server will be deleted next week, and there go your files! Download any files you need NOW!

I plan to grade your finals and projects by the end of this next weekend. I will leave the ETUDES on-line class environment open until at least Wednesday July 5 so that you can log-in and get feedback on your projects and find out your final grade. After the 5th I will close down the classroom.

Be sure to check the Assignments link and view your scores. I am at this point caught up in grading. If you have questions, now is the time to ask as grades will be turned in next Monday July 3rd. After that date there is no recourse… act now if you have questions!

Summer Students

The Summer Quarter is only 6 weeks long. This is a good news/bad news situation. The materials for a given class is exactly the same, you just have less time to complete the work - 6 weeks as opposed to 12 weeks. This is a positive if you are a motivated student and you can dedicate the time required to complete a course, you will be done before you know it!

It is critical that you purchase the textbook immediately. In a normal quarter you would have a week grace period. In the Summer Quarter we are starting week 2 almost immediately, and you need the textbook to complete the assignments… this is required!

Note that the CAST 52P Flash Projects class does not have a required text but the Intro to Flash and XHTML Web Publishing classes do require a textbook.

Click on the link under ETUDES in the sidebar on the right to find a link to the on-line bookstore. It may cost a few dollars more than finding a cheaper copy elsewhere, but they have the textbooks in stock and you will receive it quickly. Again, for Summer Quarter, you can not afford to get behind… it makes it hard to then catch up (smiling, but serious!).

If you have questions, click the E-mail link at the top of any page and I will be glad to assist you.

The CTIS servers will be down from Saturday June 11 until early Monday morning for scheduled maintenance.

Via the CTIS News Blog

Thanks for telling your students about these wonderful opportunities:

Position: System Administrator Intern

Skills: Understanding of PC hardware and basic networking configurations; familiar with windows, Mac OS, MS Office Suite. Database, MySQL, Filemaker Pro, Visual Basic, Unix/Linux, Problem solving through Internet research preferred. Good interpersonal and communication skills necessary. Must be a local community college student, and must be a US. Citizen.

Position: System Administrator Plus

Skills: Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Sendmail, SSH; PHP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML. Ajax exp. a plus; independent and team player; self motivated, energetic, flexible, desires to learn. Permanent resident OK.

Position: Network Engineer at NASA (working in NAS supercomputer facility).

Skills: understands routing and switching basics, UNIX (C,PERL or equivalent), Unix networking Independent an a team player. Cisco networking environment, TCP/IP, Ethernet, WAN technologies, wireless (LAN and WAN) a plus.
Must be a local community college student, and must be a US. Citizen.

Position: Software Engineer

Skills: PHP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, UI design, web programming skills, ability to work independently and as part of a team; self motivated, energetic and tenacious; flexible and responsive to change; desire to learn. Permanent resident OK.

Thank you. We will extend the deadline for the right person, through next week.

Marti Carlson
Program Coordinator
NASA/Ames and Private Sector Internship Programs
Foothill-DeAnza Community College District
mcarlson@mail.arc.nasa.gov

M/S 226-7
P.O. Box 309
Moffett Field, CA 94035

(650)604-5560 phone
(650)966-1980 fax
http://nasa.fhda.edu