FIT 100

Winter 2002

Assignment 0

Treasure Hunt!

   

Introduction: 

This assignment is designed to help you become oriented in the course, its website, and various benefits provided to you by the University of Washington-many of which you will use throughout the quarter.  The assignment will be graded leniently, and weighted only a small amount in your course grade.

Using the course website as a starting point, find the answers to the following questions.   Send the answers, along with the full, original questions, to the TA for your section.  Do this sometime between noon Thursday and noon Saturday.  No late homework accepted for this assignment.

Please place your name, section and student ID number at the top of the page. 

Feel free to discuss this assignment on the class Bulletin Board -- short of giving away the answers, please!

Treasure Hunt Questions: 

  1. What is your email address at the University of Washington?
  2. Secret Message #1 can be found by clicking this link.  What's the message?  [Try this on your home computer if you have one. If your browser complains, it means your computer is not quite set up right.  In that case, figure out what's wrong and correct it.]
  3. Secret Message #2 will be sent by e-mail to all students enrolled in the class.  You'll know it when you see it.  What is the message?  [If you have not seen it by noon on Thursday, there may be a problem with your registration or with our records.]
  4. Is your student web page enabled?  How do you know?
  5. As of now, what are the expected due dates for Project 3?
  6. What is the date of the first midterm exam?
  7. As of now, what is the reading assignment for March 8?
  8. True or false: students unable to take the final exam on the scheduled date may arrange to take it on another day.
  9. Have you memorized what lab section are you in?  Yes or no.
  10. What is your TA’s name?
  11. Which lab sections meet at 8:30 AM?
  12. Why can’t Professor Dickey hold office hours at 1:30 on Thursdays?
  13. Secret Message #3 will appear on the class Bulletin Board, probably on Thursday.  You'll know it when you see it. What is is?
  14. Type your full name into a search engine.  a) What exactly did you type in? b) How many hits did you get?  c) How many of the hits do you guesstimate actually refer to you?  [Don't spend a lot of time on this.  Just try it and see what happens.  We'll soon be learning more about Web searching.]