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 Basic guidelines :

    A typical tutorial is 3 credits : one class per week
    and 8 hours or so of work.  Tutorials are usually for juniors
    or seniors working on advanced or interdisplinary work related
    to computers for which no corresponding course exists.
   
    Group tutorials are also possible; ask around and come talk to me.

    The best way to submit this form is to 
      1) edit this file to include your answers,
      2) email it to mahoney@marlboro.edu, and 
      3) discuss it with me in person.

    Please do come talk to me about your specific situation in any case.


 Your name :            Sam Heller______________________________________
 

 Tutorial title :       Building Java Visualizations____________________


 Desired credits :      5_______________________________________________


 Tutorial description: (appropriate for the registrar's permanent record)

A project based class focused on the creation of a java based information
visualization system using the prefuse toolkit. Specifically this class
will focus on the creation of a group of serializable objects which extend
the prefuse API to allow for more specialized control of the toolkit. 



 What exactly do you want to study?  
 -Building Java classes and objects
 -Building Multi-Window GUI systems
 -Project Tracking, Source organization, and Documentation

 Be as explicit as you can, including a schedule if possible.
 I want to talk to you about the rest of this stuff, I'm hoping that the description above is enough to give to the registrar. Lemme know otherwise



 How does this relate to your plan and/or other course work?





 What resources have you identified?
 (e.g. books, articles, websites, experience, ...) 





 What will be the gradeable products, and on what schedule?
 (e.g. projects, programs, papers, tests, ...)