Assignment #1
Due Tuesday, September 15
20 Points
- Using an RSS reader of your choice, subscribe to
the CS403 What’s New RSS feed at http://www.cs.unh.edu/cit/403/whatsnew.xml.
- Use Webmail (or
pine) to compose and send an e-mail message from
your UNH account (of at
least three paragraphs of at least three sentences
each) that satisfies the following requirements:
- Include two addresses in the To: field of this
message (separated by a comma): my address (Mike.Gildersleeve@unh.edu)
and your own e-mail address.
- In the Subject: field enter the text “CS403
Assign #1” (without the quotes) followed by your
section number and name.
- In the body of your message briefly describe your
level of computer experience and your reasons
for taking this course.
- Also in the body of your message, give me a
short “code word” that I can use in
posting grades online. I want to post grades online in such a way
that you’ll be able to identify your own but not anyone else’s.
I don’t want to use social security numbers (or even portions
of them) since that’s neither allowed nor appropriate. So
the best way to do this is to associate a code word with each student
and post grades by code word. Just pick something that you’ll
remember (and that’s in good taste ;-).
NOTE: Leave a blank line between paragraphs
to prevent certain e-mail systems from running your paragraphs together
into one. And if you wish to ask me questions or send a message that
otherwise requires a response, please do so separately from the assignment
submission. I generally do not read assignment submissions in depth
until I sit down to grade them sometime after the due date.
After sending your message, wait a few minutes until the copy of
the message you sent to yourself arrives in your inbox and then review
it to make sure it is complete.
- In your e-mail inbox you should find a message from
me with the Subject line “DO NOT DELETE - CS403 Assign1
Questions.” Using the pages in the course Web site
(http://www.cs.unh.edu/cit/403/)
and items that appear in the CS403 What’s New RSS feed, determine
the answers to all the questions. Compose a reply to
this message (be sure to include
the original message in your reply) and answer
the questions before sending it. On the
lines immediately following each question in the original message
insert your answer to that question. Please type your answers
directly in your reply. Do not send them in a separate attachment.
NOTE: The first part of this assignment must be
done using Webmail (or pine) from
your cisunix account for full credit. Since I will
be sending the questionnaire for the second part to your UNH address,
you may find that it is easiest to do the second part of this assignment
using Webmail as well. However, if you routinely use another means
of accessing your cisunix e-mail or have it automatically forwarded
to another address, you may reply from whichever e-mail system you
find easiest for the second part.