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. Using the course website as a starting point, find the answers to the following questions.
You are free to discuss this assignment on the class Bulletin Board -- short of giving away the answers, please! This assignment is not worth a large part of your grade. HOWEVER, you will be held responsible for knowing where to find the information that is requested in this assignment as it will be valuable to you throughout the quarter.
Submit a hard copy of your answers, along with the full, original questions, in
class on Wednesday, January 7th.
Put your name, lab section and student ID number on the first page.
1. What is your email address at the University of Washington?
2. What is the class web page address (URL)?
3. Secret message #1 can be found here. What's the message? [Try this on
your home computer if you have one. If your browser complains, it means your
computer is missing a free piece of software. Figure out what it is and obtain
it for your home computer. It will be important for the course!]
4. Give the web address of 3 helpful web pages listed on the class web site. These
are pages that will aid you in the completion of coursework.
5. What are the prerequisites for this course?
6. Is your student web page enabled? How do you know?
7. 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 5 PM on Tuesday, there may be a problem with your registration or
with my records.]
8. What are the due dates of project 1A and 1B?
9. When is Exam 1?
10. When is the final? How much of your grade is the final worth?
11. True or false: Students unable to take the final exam on the scheduled
date may arrange to take it on another day.
12. What is your Professor’s name and office hours?
13. How are assignments to be submitted?
14. What is the reading assignment for January 7th?
15. When and where, exactly, is Assignment 1 due?
16. What is the name of YOUR Teaching Assistant?
17. When and where is your TA’s office hours?
18. What lab section are you in? Give the day, time and section letters.
19. What percentage of your grade goes to Project completion?
20. Secret Message #3 will appear on the class Bulletin Board by Tuesday. You'll know it when you see it. What is it?
21. Type your full name into a search engine such as Google.com.
a) What search engine did you use?
b) What exactly did you type in? Copy from the search window.
c) How many hits did you get?
d) 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.]