Course Site Instructions

ITSC1110 • Introduction to Computer Science Principles

Your course site is in a folder in your UNC Charlotte webspace: webpages.charlotte.edu/youruserid/itsc1110/. It's small - just three pages that share one header and one footer. Your personal home page sits one level above it and links down to it.

The Folder

Name it itsc1110 - all lowercase, no dashes, no spaces. The checker looks for exactly that. Inside:

Those three pages are the whole site. You won't add others in this assignment.

Common Headers and Footers

Professional sites don't copy the same header and footer into every page - they reuse one copy. Update it once and every page changes with it.

  1. Get Paul Browne's HTMLInclude script (HTMLInclude.min.js from GitHub) and put it in your scripts folder.
  2. Create the components folder with header.html and footer.html. Put your header and footer in them - including the header and footer elements themselves. The header holds your site name and a navigation that links to all three pages.
  3. In each page, replace the whole header and footer with the include element from the HTMLInclude instructions, and add the script element at the bottom of the page.

View the source of one of your pages. If you can see a header or footer element in the page file itself, it's in the wrong place - the page should hold only the include.

The Three Pages

The AI Introduction

Give an AI tool the facts about you, ask it to write your introduction, and publish the result - then be honest about how it did. The page has three parts, in this order:

  1. The AI's introduction, exactly as it wrote it. Don't edit it. Use UNC Charlotte's data-protected Gemini or Copilot, and give it only what you'd be comfortable putting on a public webpage - this page is public.
  2. Your comparison, a short paragraph or two beside your own introduction: what it got right, what it got wrong or invented, what it missed, and what you would never say that way.
  3. Your disclosure: the tool you used, the prompt you gave it, and the acknowledgment statement from the AI Policy.

What We Check

Submitting

Submit the address of your course site - webpages.charlotte.edu/youruserid/itsc1110/, without index.html on the end. Canvas has the due date and the point value.