STATUS

I have been so busy w/CSCI 1901 that I have only laid out the project & its parameters , and have not yet begun to explore it in depth.
I spent $80 on several books yesterday;

LINUX for dummies
Long compelled/intimidated by this OS, I will now engage/explore it w/a comprehensive guide (:

JAVA for dummies
in-depth resource on j a v a

BEGINNING COMPUTER PROGRAMMING for dummies
overview of fundamentals and exploration of most common languages

CREATING WEBPAGES for dummies
covers everything at a good depth ; ranging from: servers - java - xml - security/encryption - html - webstores/credit card proccessing - online databasing

SIMPLICITY by John Maeda , CSCI faculty @ MIT
resource on computer science and aesthetics , relating primarily to GUI's tho extremely applicable/relevant to system-architecture and code.

KANJI FINDER - special resource dictionary for looking up japanese characters
(:

have been thinking about the concept of 'SWEEPSTAKES' , so funny ! omoshiroi !

I plan on spending thursday afternoon and friday afternoon/evening exploring this project and developing some form of presentation.
school work takes immediate precedence ovcors, so we will see what happens