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I just want to take a few moments to talk about mistakes.

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Mistakes happen all the time in software development, and since this is a major media course, chances

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are you've made a few mistakes of your own.

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Well, one of the things I wanted to suggest is that during this course, I am going to make mistakes

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and I'm not going to edit them out of the lectures.

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Everyone makes mistakes.

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And in fact, making mistakes is part of the software development process.

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Chances are if you're a developer, you spend at least five or six hours every week, if not considerably

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more, fixing your own mistakes or fixing someone else's.

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So as this course goes on, I will inevitably make mistakes.

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Some of them will be trivial and some will be somewhat less than trivial, but I'm not going to edit

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them out.

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Instead, I'll let you watch me identify and fix those problems.

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And that's just a little heads up.

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I always find it a little amusing to watch polished, heavily edited lectures where people appear to

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be absolutely perfect in every way.

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And we're not.

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We're all human.

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We make mistakes.

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You do.

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I do.

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And you're going to get to see me make more than one, I'm sure.