THE MACHINE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
INVENTING THE FUTURE and THE PAPERBACK COMPUTER
This
assignment must be completed by 11:59 PM, Wednesday, February 13, 2008.
Print this document and carefully read
and complete the following information and instructions.
Although there is/was no class on
Thursday, February 7, 2008, the videos for that class can be accessed through
the Internet. You are to view the
Inventing The Future and The Paperback Computer episodes
of the Machine That Changed The World by accessing them on the internet through
your computer and complete the assignment by the deadline. The questions to be answered regarding
Inventing The Future and The Paperback Computer are in
Part 1 of this assignment.
Inventing The
Future
RealPlayer Video:
rtsp://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/stewart/mach_p2.rm
Paperback Computer
RealPlayer Video: rtsp://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/stewart/mach_p3.rm
To view the Videos, you must have a media player which can play
RealPlayer files (rm and rtsp)
installed on your computer. The media
players listed below can play RealPlayer files.
After you click, below, on the hyperlink
for Real Player, Make sure you read the system requirements and download and
install the version of Real Player which is compatible with your computer and
operating system.
After you have installed one of
the Real Player compatible media player (preferably Real Player), click on the
hyperlink for each video to view them. If
clicking on the hyperlink doesn’t cause the compatible media player to play the
video, you will have to copy the hyperlink’s text and figure out where to paste
it in the compatible media player to get it to access the file through the
Internet and play it. You will see
that the image is better when its size is 100% or less.
Real Player for Windows XP and Vista
http://www.realplayer.com/
Real Player for Macintosh OS X
Real Player 10
http://forms.real.com/real/player/blackjack.html?platform2=Mac%20OS%20X&product=RealPlayer%2010&proc=g3&lang=&show_list=0&src=realhome_spmac_bb_0_1_1_0_0_2_0,rc_mac_rp,macjack
Real Player 11 Beta
http://www.real.com/mac/realplayer?pageid=macHomePage&pageregion=player_button&src=blackjack%2Crealhome_spmac_bb_0_2_1_0_0_2_0&pcode=rn&opage=realhome_spmac_bb
Previous Versions of Real Player for
older Mac and Windows and other operating systems:
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These are other Media Players which may or may not work with
Real Player files:
Windows Media Player 11
for Windows: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/11/default.aspx
Windows Media Player ( Other
versions): http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/previousversions.aspx
Windows Media Player for the Macintosh: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/mac/default.aspx
Videolan
is a multiplatform (Windows, Macintosh, etc., media player: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
This assignment is comprised of 5 parts.
This assignment is worth 15% of your final mark.
This assignment must be completed
by 11:59 PM, Wednesday, February 13, 2008.
Lateness or non-submission will result in a grade of zero for this assignment.
This assignment assumes that you have completed the previous website and email
assignments through which you established a website, index.html page, and an
email account.
Although the instructions are for the Microsoft Windows operating system, this
assignment can be done with any operating system and a text editor.
PLAGIARISM WILL RESULT IN A GRADE OF F (FAILURE) FOR THE COURSE.
Part 1:
Use a text editor, such as Notepad.
Answer questions.
Make sure that your writing is well organized, coherent, grammatically correct,
and typographical and spelling errors are corrected and sources of information
used to support your answers/assertions are referenced.
Part 2:
You will send an email from your own CFADW course Yahoo!GeoCities email account to the CFADW course email
account (cfadw48590@yahoo.ca) with the content of your tmtctw.txt file included
in the body of your email.
Part 3:
Create a new web page in your own CFADW website and copy the text you wrote in
part 1 and paste it into the new web page.
Part 4:
Create a working link on your CFADW course website's index.html page, to the
web page you created in part 3.
Part 5:
Send an email notification to the CFADW course website (cfadw48590@yahoo.ca).
Part 1:
(1)
Put a formatted floppy disk into the floppy disk drive
or use other portable media such as a flash drive (uses USB port).
If you are using your own computer and don't need to have the file available
for use on portable media, you won't need the floppy disk or flash drive.
(2) To start up the Notepad text editor in Windows:
Click on the the 'Start' menu
Click on: 'Run'
In the 'Open' textbox type: notepad
Click on: 'OK'.
The Notepad text editor window should appear.
(3) At the top left of the Notepad window:
Click on: 'File'
Click on: 'Save As'
Give your file the following name: tmtctw.txt
'Save' it to your floppy disk or the flash drive or your own computer's hard
drive.
(4) In the Notepad text editor, at the top of the page:
On the first line, type your first name then your last name.
On the next line, type your student number.
Below this, on the next line, type the title: “TMTCTW: Inventing The Future and The Paperback Computer” (no quotes).
Insert two blank lines below the title (press Enter/Return three times).
Write, in paragraphs according to the list below, about what you observed,
found interesting, and learned from watching the 2 episodes of TMTCTW
documentary.
Make sure that your writing is well organized into paragraphs, coherent,
grammatically correct, and typographical and spelling errors are corrected.
Although the instructions specify Notepad as the text editor, you may use a
different text editor such as WordPad, etc.
If you want to write more, that's OK.
Save your work often to prevent losing it due to a crash, etc.
The completeness and quality of your work will
affect the evaluation you receive.
Superficial and/or incomplete and/or incorrect answers will result in a
very/extremely low mark for this assignment.
Put serious thought and effort into your answers and comments. A
sentence or two for each item is totally inadequate. Readability is also
very important. Readability includes:
correct spelling, grammar, sentence structure, logical flow, formatting. You must also reference sources of information
used to support your answers/assertions.
If you need assistance with writing, it is available from the College
through student services.
PLAGIARISM WILL RESULT IN A GRADE OF F (FAILURE) FOR THE COURSE.
If you want to view the videos, after you have installed one of the
Real Player compatible media player (preferably Real Player), click on the
hyperlink for each video to view them.
If clicking on the hyperlink doesn’t cause the compatible media player
to play the video, you will have to copy the hyperlink’s text and figure out
where to paste it into the compatible media player to get it to access the file
through the Internet and play it.
You are to write your own answers and comments:
Inventing The
Future
RealPlayer 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.
The Paperback Computer
RealPlayer 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
(5) When you have finished your answers and comments, make sure you have saved
the file to the floppy disk, flash drive or hard drive.
(6) You are going to use your tmtctw.txt file in the following parts of this
assignment.
Part 2:
(1) Access http://ca.geocities.yahoo.com/home
(2) Sign into your Yahoo!GeoCities
website.
(3) Scroll down to the bottom of the page where there is a box filled with
underlined words and click on: 'mail'.
(4) At the left of your email account web page, click on: 'Compose'.
(5) Enter the recipient's email address in To: cfadw48590@yahoo.ca
(6) Enter the email Subject: First name, Last name, Student number, TMTCTW
assignment completed
(Use your own name and student number)
(7) Enter your own CFADW Yahoo email address in Cc: yourlastname_yourstudentnumber@yahoo.ca
(To make the Cc: textbox appear, you may have to click on 'Add CC' which is
located above the 'To' textbox.)
(Replace yourlastname_yourstudentnumber with your
actual Yahoo GeoCities ID, i.e.: chan_100123456 )
(8) In the box where the message goes, type: First name, Last name has
completed TMTCTW assignment.
(Use your own first name and last names.)
(9) Copy all of the text you wrote from your text editor and paste the text to
your email.
(10) In the Yahoo email composer page, click on: 'Send'.
You should receive the Cc: of your email in your CFADW course email account
(eventually).
(11) Logout/sign out of your email and website. If you don't logout, your email
and website will be open for others to use.
(12) If you are not going to immediately continue to the next part of this
assignment, remove your floppy disk or flash drive and take it with you.
Part 3:
(1) Access http://ca.geocities.yahoo.com/home
(2) Sign into your own course website.
(3) On the webpage that appears, click on: 'Advanced HTML Editor'
A new webpage should appear which has the following html code located in the
HTML Editor:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
</body>
</html>
--------------------------------------------------------------------
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The
html code you see is the barebones code for a webpage.
(4) In the 'Filename' textbox, enter: tmtctw.html
(5) Click on: 'Save and Continue Editing'
(6) In the HTML Editor window, in the html code,
<title>Untitled</title> , replace
'Untitled' with: TMTCTW Assignment
You are now going to add more html formatting tags.
All html formatting tags include left and right angle brackets, <> , as you can see in the HTML Editor window.
(7) Below the code '<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
text="#000000">', type: <P>
(8) Enter two blank lines below '<P>'
(9) On the second blank line, type: </P>
(10) Click on: 'Save and Continue Editing'
The html code should now be as shown below:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------
<html>
<head>
<title>TMTCTW Assignment</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<P>
<---- This is where the first paragraph of the text you wrote in Part 1 will go.
</P>
</body>
</html>
--------------------------------------------------------------------
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As
indicated above, the first paragraph of your own content will be copied from
the tmtctw.txt file you typed and pasted between the two html formatting tags
you typed.
The first html tag, <P> , is the 'opening' tag
and it is interpreted by the web browser to indicate that the text which
follows it is a paragraph.
The second html tag, </P> , is the 'closing' tag
and it is interpreted by the web browser to indicate that the paragraph text is
finished.
(11) Highlight the first paragraph of text you typed in Notepad and copy it
(Ctrl C).
(The first paragraph is the one of three consecutive lines which contain: your last name, your student number, TMTCTW:
Inventing The Future and Paperback Computer.)
(12) Place the cursor at the beginning of the blank line between the html tags
you entered:
<P>
<---- Place the cursor here.
</P>
(13)
Paste (Ctrl V) the text you copied.
(14) Click on: 'Save and Continue Editing'
(15) Click on: 'Preview'
The web page you are working on should appear.
(16) Scroll down the web page and see if the text you pasted appears. All of
the text you copied should appear.
If it doesn't appear, you may not have properly copied or pasted the text from
Notepad which will require that you recopy, paste, etc.
If it partially appears, you may have to scroll down to see it all or, if it
really is only partially there, you will have to 'cut' the text you pasted and
recopy, paste, etc.
(17) Below the </P> tag, add another pair of paragraph tags <P>
</P> for the next paragraph of text you will add to your web page.
(18) Copy the next paragraph of text from Notepad and paste it between the
additional paragraph tags.
(19) Repeat steps 14,15,16,17 and 18, for each additional paragraph of text,
until you have finished your whole document.
(20) When finished, logout/sign out of your email and website. If you don't
logout, your email and website will be open for others to use.
Part
4:
The
following instructions apply to a Yahoo! Geocities website homepage
(index.html) which can be edited through the use of the Yahoo! Geocities
PageWizard (template editor).
If you created your Yahoo! Geocities website home page (index.html) with the
PageWizard, you should be able to use the PageWizard again to complete this
part (part 4) of the assignment in accordance with the instructions.
If you have previously manually edited your Yahoo! Geocities website homepage
(index.html) with the 'Advanced HTML Editor', you will not be able to use PageWizards,
you will have to manually edit the hyperlink into your index.html page.
(1) Access http://ca.geocities.yahoo.com/home
(2) Sign into your CFADW course website.
(3) On the webpage that appears, under 'Build Web Pages', click on: 'Yahoo! PageWizards'
A new webpage should appear.
(4) Click on: 'Personal Page'
(5) On the webpage that appears, click on: 'Launch Yahoo! PageWizard'
A new window should appear.
(6) Click on: 'Edit existing page'
(7) Where it indicates '[choose]', click on the scroll arrow and select:
'index'
(8) Continue clicking on 'next' until '4 Enter your favourtite links' appears.
(9) In one of the 'Link Name' textboxes, replace the text with: TMTCTW
Assignment
(10) In the 'Web Address' textbox, opposite, replace the text with:
ca.oocities.com/yourlastname_yourstudentnumber/tmtctw.html
(Replace yourlastname_yourstudentnumber with your
actual Yahoo!GeoCities ID,
i.e. yourlastname_yourstudentnumber such as:
chan_100123456)
(11) Keep clicking on 'next' until 'Congratulations' appears.
(12) Click on: 'Done'
A new webpage appears titled: 'Now that you have finished...'
(13) Logout/sign out of your email and website. If you don't logout, your email
and website will be open for others to use.
(14) Type the URL of your own CFADW course website into the web browser's
'Address' textbox to access your website and test the link to your tmtctw.html
webpage.
Part
5:
(1)
Access http://ca.geocities.yahoo.com/home
(2) Sign into your Yahoo!GeoCities
website.
(3) Scroll down to the bottom of the page where there is a box filled with
underlined words and click on: 'mail'.
(4) At the left of your email account web page, click on: 'Compose'.
(5) Enter the recipient's email address in To: cfadw48590@yahoo.ca
(6) Enter the email Subject: First name, Last name, TMTCTW web page and link
completed
(Replace First name, Last name with your own name.)
(7) Enter your own CFADW email address in Cc: yourlastname_yourstudentnumber@yahoo.ca
(To make the Cc: textbox appear, you may have to click on 'Add CC' which is
located above the 'To' textbox.)
(Replace yourlastname_yourstudentnumber with your
actual Yahoo!GeoCities ID,
i.e. yourlastname_yourstudentnumber such as: chan_100123456)
(8) In the textbox where the message goes, type the complete URL of your
website: http://ca.oocities.com/yourlastname_yourstudentnumber
followed by pressing the 'Enter' key on the keyboard (very important!).
(Replace yourlastname_yourstudentnumber with your
actual Yahoo!GeoCities ID,
i.e. yourlastname_yourstudentnumber such as:
chan_100123456
Make sure the URL is correct!
(9) In the Yahoo email composer page, click on: 'Send'.
You should receive the Cc: of your email in your course email account
(eventually).
(10) Logout/sign out of your email and website. If you don't logout, your email
and website will be open for others to use.
(11) Remove your floppy disk or flash drive and take it with you.
PRESENTATION TOPICS and PARTNERS:
In
addition to completing Assignment 2, you are to email two potential
presentation topics, and an explanation of why you
chose those two topics and what you intend to cover in them, by 11:59 PM,
Wednesday, February 13, 2008, to the course email website. The subject line to be used is: CFADW
Presentation Topics. The two topics
are to be specifically related to information technology – history (past,
present, future), important people, effects on the individual and society,
important technologies (past, present, future), etc. The topics may or may not be related to your
college Program. For example: if you are
in Human Resource Management, a presentation may be about how information
technologies are used in human resource management or, if you are in Hotel
Management, you may want to do a presentation about how information technology
is used to manage a hotel or one or more areas of a hotel such as hotel
security. No product demos are
allowed (Those are done at Future Shop, Best Buy, etc.). The topic and its content must inform/educate
about information/content not covered during the course. Presentation topics will be discussed during
class.
You
will be partnered with one other person in the class to work together. If you and another person in the class want
to work together, you must inform me of this during next class on Thursday,
February 14, 2008. If you don’t have a
partner or if you and your partner do not inform me about your partnership
during class on February 14, 2008, you will be arbitrarily assigned a partner.