Week-4 Reading Comments

I’m pleased with how well you’re addressing the reading and thinking about it.  There are many very thoughtful posts and good links to resources that may be helpful to many of you in your term projects.

Here are a couple of problem areas for some of you

• Some of you didn’t provide the ability to find the articles you describe.  For online sources the easiest way is to link them.  For books and other non-web sources then you need to provide the standard bibliographic information – Author, Date, Title, Published-In etc.
• Several students didn’t submit comments to other’s work this week.  They lost points and, more importantly, the benefit of your classmate’s thought.

Resources Printout–Through 1/26/2012–From MS Access

All your entries so far for the resources that you’ve submitted are now in this 55pp PDF.  I’ll update it as we move forward

• Here’s a short version that can serve as an index
• It should be useful for those of you working on BIM projects
• It’s an example of how one can manipulate information in a Database
  • I downloaded the information from GDocs into Excel
  • I then put it into MS Access and converted it to a relational database using the “analyze” tool in Access.
  • I produced a “report” to print it in this form

Question About Reading Assignments

Question: 
 I was going over the the assigned readings and I just wanted to clarify the requirements of the reading assignments.We don't have to submit the assigned reading to the reading submission, only the article that we find on our own. But we have to mention the assigned reading and the article we found in our blog post each week? Let me know at your earliest convenience.

Response:
You are correct.