CSC 170
Homework 1

Assigned Jan 23, due Jan 30

This may look like a lot of problems, but most of them either have no wrong answers (like the survey) or are purely mechanical (like downloading and installing software on your computer).

• Fill out the class survey on the Web.
• Make an appointment by e-mail to see Dr. Bloch in his office for 5-10 minutes.
• Start reading the Parsons & Oja book.
• On your home computer (or wherever you're likely to be doing homework), check that you have the following software. If you don't, I've included a download link.
  • SeaMonkey (which we'll use for building Web pages)
  • An FTP client such as FileZilla,
  • Either Microsoft Office (which you can buy at a student discount) or OpenOffice (which you can download for free)
  • An image editor such as Irfanview (for Windows) or Gimp (for Mac). Note that Gimp relies on having X11 (an "optional feature" shipped with the Mac operating system) installed on your Mac.
• If you haven't done so already, create an account on Piazza (which we'll be using for on-line discussion). You should have received an e-mail with the subject “Welcome to Piazza! You've been enrolled in CSC 170-02 as a student.” If not, visit this sign-up link.
• If you haven't done so already, log onto Adelphi's Moodle system and confirm that CSC 170 shows up on your list of classes.
• In Moodle, click the “Sample file to download” activity to download a text file to your home computer. Open it in Word, OpenOffice, or any text editor, and follow the instructions in it (which involve editing it). Then upload it to Moodle by clicking the “Uploading practice” activity, to confirm that your computer can both download from and upload to Moodle.