Inheritance of the graduate, or the last d / z in computer science

The next issue, the next "Last Call". The next batch of boys and girls assumes the status of "having entered adulthood" and parted with their educational institution.

I did the same. But before that, he decided to leave behind him something that would somehow benefit. Real benefit.

I’ll tell you about this.



A few words about the school I left. This is the MOW secondary school from a remote place (you can not imagine how far), affected by state programs and generally progress only barely. Yes, we were presented with computers with licensed Windows and 15 "CRT moniks, they even gave us the Internet. However, the latter managed to use only a few lucky ones, and that was last year; at the moment, access to the global network for unexplained reasons is not possible.

However, this did not hit the school curriculum of the computer science course. There is no place in it either for the topic “Internet”, or, accordingly, ... “Hypertext Markup Language”.

Yes, at our school they don’t learn HTML. And they don’t even mention him. What is it - the teacher himself first heard about this concept only from me. For several years (since the 9th grade), my desire to show off at a lesson with my skills in the web layout, when we started to study it, did not work out :)

But there was an opportunity to take a backup route.

Our ultra-modern school is going to present such a miracle as a “multimedia board” next year. No one in the village has this, we will be the coolest of all, like, so ... And we, the eleventh graders - those who will not see her anymore - were given a party task: to prepare a presentation lesson for this board on a chosen topic on any subject (compendium "MS PowerPoint Skills" to help). “Here it is - my chance!” I thought and said that my topic would be XHTML and CSS. A mixed sense of misunderstanding and indifference in the eyes of the teacher - "please do." While classmates downloaded presentations on thermodynamics and the main events of WWE from the Internet, I mastered InDesign CS2, composed the text of the lesson and examples, prepared comments for / for the teacher.

As a result, I didn’t even make a presentation, but something between a short manual and an information brochure. However, that was what I intended from the very beginning - I was always annoyed by computer science classes with watching presentations on a computer monitor. Presentations for the projector are not suitable, in my opinion, for viewing on a computer, and vice versa. And since the “interactive whiteboard” will not be brought to us, it’s a fact that soon, I optimized my work for easy viewing on the monitors of our office.

The work is completed and delivered; I hope that she was not in vain. I’m sure that soon we will reach the fashion for creating school sites, and I would very much like for my school’s site to look at least not gouging out how terrible. For example, like that .

Was it worth it? If it was, did it work out? I tried to create an excursion lesson in HTML and CSS, the fundamental principles of website development. In my opinion, this is more than useful - no contribution to the elimination of computer illiteracy among the population of our country.

Actually, the subject of conversation

Download presentation. PDF, 1.28 Mb

Download comments on the presentation for the teacher. PDF, 132 Kb (you already know about it).

I apologize for, perhaps, not everywhere successful design and inferior illustrations :) I tried, but was limited in time and power. In addition, I was not sure what it was worth doing brilliantly, because there would still be nobody to evaluate ...

I will be glad to any comments from the community, both specifically on the job and on the idea in general.