(1) Put a formatted floppy disk into the floppy disk 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: inventingthefuture.txt
'Save' it to your floppy disk.
(4) In the Notepad text editor:
Type your name and student number at the top of the page.
On the next line, type the title: The Machine That Changed The World: Inventing The Future
Below the title, in order, type the answers to the following questions:
(For assistance with answering the questions, you may refer to sources of information such as: http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/TMTCTW.html)
1) Which was more important in the early development of the computer industry: scientific innovation, federal government spending, or the forces of free-market capitalism? Explain.
2) What were the initial difficulties that had to be overcome to make a successful computer business? Explain.
3)What were the initial applications for computers and how did the technology develop in accordance with market forces? Explain.
4) What problems caused the invention of higher level programming languages and what were the solutions? Explain.
5) What was the significance of the 1952 Presidential Election in the history of the computer industry? Explain.
6) Which company eventually prevailed/dominated the computer industry and why? Explain.
7) What is the Integrated Circuit (I.C.) and why was it so important? Explain.
8) What concerns were there about the application of the computer? Explain.
9) What did you find interesting in the documentary? Explain.
Make sure that your writing is well organized, coherent, grammatically correct, and typographical and spelling errors are corrected.
Make sure that your writing is 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.
(5) When you have finished your comments, make sure you have saved the file to the floppy disk.
(6) Print a copy of this file and bring it to class on February 13.
(7) You are going to use your inventingthefuture.txt file in Parts 2 and 3.
(1) Access http://ca.oocities.com
(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: crn43003@yahoo.ca
(6) Enter the email Subject: First name, Last name, Student number, Inventing The Future assignment completed
(Use your own name and student number)
(7) Enter your own CFADW email address in Cc: cfadw_yourstudentnumber@yahoo.ca
(Replace cfadw_yourstudentnumber with your actual Yahoo!GeoCities ID, i.e. cfadw_101234567)
(8) In the box where the message goes, type: First name, Last name has completed the Inventing The Future assignment.
(Use your own first name and last name.)
(9) Copy the text you wrote about The Machine That Changed The World: Inventing The Future from your text editor and paste the text into your email.
(10) Below the Cc: textbox, click on the checkbox for: 'Save copy to Sent folder'.
(11) In the Yahoo email composer page, click on: 'Send'.
A confirmation page should appear and you should receive a copy of the email (eventually).
(12) Logout/sign out of your email and website. If you don't logout, your email and website will be open for others to use.
(1) Access http://ca.oocities.com
(2) Sign into your 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:
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The html code you see is the barebones code for a webpage.
(4) In the 'Filename' textbox, enter: inventingthefuture.html
(5) Click on: 'Save and Continue Editing'
(6) In the HTML Editor window, in the html code, <title>Untitled</title> , replace 'Untitled' with: The Machine That Changed The World: Inventing The Future
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:
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----------------------------------------------------------------<html> <head> <title>The Machine That Changed The World: Inventing The Future</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 cfadw_comments.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).
(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.
(1) Access http://ca.oocities.com
(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: Inventing The Future Assignment
(10) In the 'Web Address' textbox, opposite, replace the text with: ca.oocities.com/cfadw_yourstudentnumber/inventingthefuture.html
(Replace 'yourstudentnumber' with your own.)
(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 inventingthefuture.html webpage.
(1) Access http://ca.oocities.com
(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: crn43003@yahoo.ca
(6) Enter the email Subject: First name, Last name, Inventing The Future web page and link completed
(Replace First name, Last name with your own name.)
(7) Enter your CFADW email address in Cc: cfadw_yourstudentnumber@yahoo.ca
(Replace cfadw_yourstudentnumber with your actual Yahoo!GeoCities ID, i.e. cfadw_101234567)
(8) In the box where the message goes, type the complete URL of your website: http://ca.oocities.com/cfadw_yourstudentnumber
followed by pressing the 'Enter' key on the keyboard (very important!).
(Replace cfadw_yourstudentnumber with your actual Yahoo!GeoCities ID, i.e. cfadw_101234567
Make sure the URL is correct!
(9) Below the Cc: textbox, click on the checkbox for: 'Save copy to Sent folder'.
(10) In the Yahoo email composer page, click on: 'Send'.
A confirmation page should appear and you should receive a copy of the email (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.