Last updated: 8/4/00/2000
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eCommerce: Using the Web to Find and Service Customers
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Computers, the Internet, and Society
for the
Fall 2000 Semester

This is a preliminary web site for people who want to see what the course will be like. For a more complete idea, see the extensive Fall 1999 web site for these courses.

There will be three important differences between Fall 1999 and Fall 200, though:

1. Less reading (three textbooks for each course, instead of four)
2. More class meetings (every other week - Wednesdays -  instead of every third week)
3. Lab sessions on Fridays are only needed if you cannot do the computer and Internet work at another time and place, e.g. from home or work.

Link to course flier on the web.
Notice that there is a mistake on the hard copy flier: The first meeting for AGS 3340 is listed as Wednesday 9/8, but that date is a Friday. The first class meeting will be the same as for AGS 3360 - Wednesday 9/6.

Textbooks have been ordered at the Barnes and Noble Bookstore on the WSU campus, and are listed below. All textbooks are required, although you do not have to buy them from Barnes and Noble.

eCommerce: Using the Web to Find and Service Customers

• Gordon McComb, Web Commerce Cookbook (with CD-ROM), John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY, 1998.
• Patricia B. Seybold, Customers.com, Times Business/Random House, New York, NY. 1998.
• Elizabeth Castro, HTML for the World Wide Web, Peachpit Press, Berkeley CA. 1998.

Course: Computers, the Internet and Society

• Brian Underdahl et al, Teach Yourself Microsoft Office, IDG Books, Foster City CA. 1999.
• Esther Dyson, Release 2.1, Broadway Books, New York NY. 1998.
• Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, NY, 1999.

Four other early notes:

1. There wasn't room on the flier, but the eCommerce course works for any web site that wants interactivity - where users supply information over the web, and the web site responds with a customized message. While businesses are leading the way, non-profits, governments and private individuals are also very active with this.
2. We will have a class photo album on the course web site. It is not required to have your picture here, but I will bring a digital camera and take pictures the first class night (Wednesday September 6).
3. I will be on vacation until August 17. If you really want to ask a question before then, call my cell phone at 248-417-5794 and leave a voice mail message with your number (speak s-l-o-w-l-y and distinctly - it's amazing how fast some people expect you to be able to write the number down!). I will call you back, probably the next day.
4. Both classes will meet in Room 113 Rackham Hall (ISP computer lab) on campus. There will be a map to the building on this web site before the start of classes.