Survey for admissions into 6.171 for Spring 2006. Please return via email, before January 2, 2006, to philg@mit.edu with a subject line of "application for 6.171" --------------- please place your responses between our questions >> What is your year and major at MIT? >> Describe the largest software system that you've personally built. >> What experience do you have in setting up and maintaining operating systems? >> What experience do you have, if any, with setting up and maintaining relational database management systems such as Postgres, Oracle, or SQL Server? >> What experience do you have, if any, with programming relational database management systems in the SQL language? >> What are your motivations for taking 6.171? What do you hope to accomplish with the skills that you acquire? >> List a couple of your favorite Internet applications (can be plain vanilla Web sites) and what you think is good/important about them. >> List a couple Web sites or Internet applications that you think are tastefully designed and what you think is tasteful about them. >> Do you have a laptop computer that you can bring to the classroom? [note that your answer to this question is for our planning; it will not affect whether or not you are admitted into 6.171] >> Do you already have a topic for the online learning that you're going to build in 6.171? A client/sponsor for this community? If so, please describe what you hope to build. [This is not in any way a requirement for the class but if there is a project that you desperately want to build, and have a real client for, we'd like to hear about it early on.] >> Do you already have a partner or partners in mind with whom you'd like to work on the 6.171 project? If so, please list these people by name and email address.