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technical history
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This site has continuously been on-line since January 1997 in four main releases.
Version 4 -- Developed August 2002 through August 2003.
- Server-side Include (SSI) code logic used to display appropriate content automatically (based on date) without human intervention.
- Server-side includes used to compartmentalize content into re-usable includes.
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSSs) control look.
- JavaScript password protection on instructor's area.
- HTML limited to table display logic and basic text.
- Embedded QuickTime 5+ multimedia--about 70 movies.
- PDF syllabus, quizzes, and exams.
Version 3 -- Developed between August 1999 and December 2001.
- Updated by hand, weekly.
- Modules and display code used HTML.
- JavaScript rollovers for navigation.
- About 20 QuickTime movies.
- PDF syllabus, quizzes, and exams.
Version 2 -- Developed between August 1998 and December 1998.
- Updated by hand, weekly.
- HTML
- A few QuickTime movies.
- PDF syllabus and quizzes.
Version 1 -- Developed between August 1997 and July 1998.
- Updated by hand, weekly.
- Imagemaps (whoo-hoo!)
- HTML
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content history
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Since 1997 the emphasis of the site has shifted from providing a general science fiction information resource to being a class-specific resource. (Dates of revisions can be found, left.)
Version 4.2 -- SF20, version 3
- "White/gray" site
- Enhancement to include Am St 402W content
Version 4 -- SF20, version 2
- "White/gray" site
- Areas include:
- Weekly modules (links/multimedia)
- Authors
- Interact (messageboard)
- Surveillance
Version 3 -- SF20, version 1
- "Black/green" site
- Areas include:
- Weekly modules (links/multimedia)
- Authors
- Interact (messageboard)
- Student montages
- Surveillance
Version 2 -- PSSFC, version 2
- "White/images" site, with link pages addendum
- Areas include:
- Weekly modules (links/multimedia)
- Authors
- Author interviews
- Real science articles
- Student montages
Version 1 -- PSSFC, version 1
- "White/images" site
- Areas include:
- Weekly modules (links/multimedia)
- Authors
- Author interviews
- Real science articles
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the guilty
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Dr. Paul Youngquist, course instructor
- Paul teaches English 191, Science Fiction as Cultural Critique, at The Pennsylvania State University. Usually, the course is taught during the Fall semester. Paul wanted an on-line, collaborative resource to enrich his students' classroom experience in 1997. This site is the embodiment of that desire. Paul currently resides in State College, Pennsylvania.
Will Stotler, site developer
- Will is an IT consultant (formerly an English major) and has been responsible for the site's architecture, deployment, editing, and content inclusion since 1997. Will firmly believes that the Web can be seriously leveraged to enrich students' and instructors' classroom experience and this site is proof it can be done. Will currently lives about 25 miles from the nearest zero point, which is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
university of colorado students
- Every year, students in the course have an opportunity to add content to the site in the form of featured author biographies. The following students have made contributions to author biographies since 1997:
- David Bock
- Earl Conaway
- Ryan Farinha
- John Griffiths
- Matt Hughes
- Steve Hurvitz
- Jake Stuiver
- Sandy Toh
- James Wallmuth
- Stacey Wilson
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