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JUST A REMINDER:  at this point you should have received a welcome email from us along with a notification email from the yahoogroups.com server indicating that you have been subscribed to the iCanProgram mailing list and chat room for this course.    If for some reason you have not received notification you can subscribe yourself by clicking here  and then replying with a blank email to the confirmation email that arrives back from the yahoogroups.com server.
 

How does this all work?

Each of these lessons are intended to be FUN as well as instructive.

Each week a new lesson link will be enabled below.     These lessons will progress from the simple concepts to more elaborate concepts.    At the end of lesson 8 you will be capable of writing a program which does an animated cartoon complete with sound effects.

When you are enrolled in the course you will be added to the email mailing list and will be given a login password to the chat room.
It is important that you make full use of the chat room and mailing list to ask questions and or help out your fellow participants.
 

Mailing List

Mailing lists are used throughout the Internet whenever a group of people with similar interests wants to stay in touch.

Mailing lists work  a lot like a magazine subscription.    When you decide to join the mailing list you contact the central "subscription office" for that mailing list by email asking to have your email address added to the circulation list.

At that point you would be said to have been "subscribed".

When you have a question that you want to ask the group you simply compose a single email and send it to our mailing list address.
ican01be@yahoogroups.com

 Everyone on the circulation list would automatically receive a copy of your email.    It would arrive in their inboxes just like any other email would.   It would show that you were the sender.   Any replies would also circulate to everyone in the group.

So you can see that a mailing list is nothing other than a convenient way to stay in touch with a whole group of people using email.

A mailing list has been created for your course.    All the other participants will be subscribed as will the course facilitators and programming experts. It will be like doing a group project in class where you can share ideas and ask each other for help.
 

Chat room

Occasionally it is important that you interact with your fellow participants more directly.    Email is great but you don't always get an immediate response.    For those types of questions that demand more immediate attention there is the chat room.

We will be setting aside fixed times each week when we the facilitators will be available online in the chat room to answer your questions and give guidance.

The chat room is a resource that you can make use of all throughout the course.

To go directly to the chat room click here.    NOTE: you will need the yahoogroups.com password that was assigned to you in your welcoming email in order to login to the chat room.

What's next

At this point  you should have successfully enrolled for the course and subscribed to the mailing list.  Now  you are ready to begin your course lessons.    This beginner course has been specially designed to help you learn at a comfortable pace over the 8 lessons.   The links below will become active as the course progresses from week to week.    If you have questions do not hesitate to send them to the list ... and above all have some fun.

Lesson for week #1:

Lesson for week #2 Lesson for week #3 Lesson for week #4 Lesson for week #5 Lesson for week #6 Lesson for week #7 Lesson for week #8