Makeda Heard is a returning student to UMUC.  She began her studies on her first bachelor's
degree when her oldest daughter was 19 months old in 1976.  She was studying at a local
community college and transferred to UMUC through Mind Extension University.  She was married at the time and her surname was White.  She is now happily divorced and all her
children are grown.  She has five grandchildren ranging in ages from newborn to 5 years of
age.

CMIS170 is her second computer course attempted after her return to UMUC in summer of 2011.  Makeda works for Johns Hopkins at the Bayview campus and wears many hats.  She is responsible for two websites.  While studying and learning XML she not only was getting 
closer to her goal of graduation but also reviewing technology and thinking about ways XML might be used at work.

Makeda definitely would recommend this class to other students.  Tiffany Johnson her professor was patient, fair and kind.  To date they learned how to write well-formed XML documents, how to write documents using DTD and schemas.  This week the students are learning style sheets (XLST) for XML documents and current uses for XML.

This final project is primarily based on the first two projects using DTD and XSD nomenclatures.  If time permits Makeda definitely would like to use an XLST as well to make the final product more acceptable.