ASSIGNMENTS

Assignment 1: Setup of Student Website and Email

To access, click on the due date:

Tuesday, September 11, 2006; By 11:59 PM

Assignment 2: BLOG entries related to ‘Inventing The Future’ and ‘The Paperback Computer’.

Videos: http://www.stewart.cs.sdsu.edu/cs440/lects/TheMachThatChangedTheWorld.html

Information: http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/TMTCTW.html

This assignment is worth 15% of your final grade.

Due by Tuesday, October 9, 2007 by 11:59 PM

The class BLOG is at http://ca.360.yahoo.com/cfadw13183 but you cannot use it until you complete the instructions below.

You must have completed assignment 1 to be able to do this assignment because an invitation to participate in the class BLOG must first be sent, by the course professor, to the yahoo.ca email account you established in assignment 1.  If you have completed assignment 1, you should have an invitation to join the CFADW13183 class BLOG in your own CFADW course mailbox.  If you have not completed assignment 1, complete it as required in the assignment 1 instructions after which (probably by the next day) you will be invited to participate in the CFADW13183 class BLOG.

Access the Yahoo.ca email account you established for the CFADW course, read your email invitation to participate in the class BLOG. Access the class BLOG and, in that BLOG, enter the comment information requested related to Inventing The Future and The Paperback Computer episodes of The Machine That Changed The World. 

The following are the questions you are to answer on the course BLOG:

Inventing The Future

Real Player Video: rtsp://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/stewart/mach_p2.rm

1) State and explain what you think were the 3 most important things that enabled the development of the electronic digital computer. "Things" may be persons, events, technologies, etc.

2) State and explain 3 things which could have prevented the development of the electronic digital computer.

3) State and explain what you think were the 3 most important things that enabled the success of the electronic digital computer. "Things" may be persons, events, technologies, etc.

4) State and explain what was most interesting to you in the documentary.

Paperback Computer

Real Player Video: rtsp://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/stewart/mach_p3.rm

1) State and explain what you think were the 3 most important things that enabled the development of the personal computer. "Things" may be persons, events, technologies, etc.

2) State and explain 3 things which could have prevented the development of the personal computer.

3) State and explain what you think were the 3 most important things that enabled the success of the personal computer. "Things" may be persons, events, technologies, etc.

4) State and explain what was most interesting to you in the documentary

Assignment 3: Hacking, Cracking and Kevin Mitnick.

This assignment is worth 10% of your final grade.

To access the assignment, click on the due date:

Tuesday, November 13, 2007; By 11:59 PM

Assignment 4: Comments for November 28, 2007 Presentations.

This assignment is worth 7.5% of your final grade.

To access the assignment, click on the due date:

Tuesday, December 4, 2007; By 11:59 PM

Assignment 5: Comments for December 5, 2007 Presentation.

This assignment is worth 7.5% of your final grade.

To access the assignment, click on the due date:

Tuesday, December 11, 2007; By 11:59 PM

Bonus Assignment.

This assignment is worth 10% which, if completed in accordance with the assignment’s instructions and by its due date, will be added to the grade you received for your course work and participation.

To access the assignment, click on the due date:

Tuesday, December 11, 2007; By 11:59 PM