This assignment is comprised of 4 parts.
This assignment is worth 10% of your final mark.
Plagiarism will result in a penalty of -20% applied to your final mark for the course.
Part 1:
While using a text editor, such as Notepad, you will answer questions related to the documentary Triumph Of The Nerds.
Part 2:
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 3:
Create a working link on your CFADW course website's index.html page, to the web page you created in part 2.
Part 4:
You will send an email from your own CFADW course Yahoo!GeoCities email account to the CFADW course email account (crn43003@yahoo.ca) with a hyperlink to your course website and the content of your triumphofthenerds.txt file included in the body of your email.
(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: triumphofthenerds.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: Triumph Of The Nerds
Below the title, in order, type the answers to the questions:
(For assistance with answering the questions, you may refer to sources of information such as: http://www.pbs.org/nerds/
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 answers, make sure you have saved the file to the floppy disk.
(6) You are going to use your triumphofthenerds.txt file in Parts 2 and 4.
1) Lary Kildall, president of Digital Research, invented, developed, and marketed the dominant commercial business oriented computer operating system, Control Program for Microcomputers (CPM), but did not become fabulously wealthy; why? Explain.
2) What were the modern personal computer innovations invented and developed at Xerox PARC? Why didn't Xerox commercially exploit the technologies it developed? What other technology company failed to commercially exploit an innovative opportunity/invention, what was that opportunity, and why didn't the company develop it?
3) What was Steve Jobs' competitive motivation for developing the Macintosh and did he achieve his goal? Explain.
4) Why were the first Apple Macintosh computers commercially unsuccessful but, by contrast, the first IBM PC commercially successful? Explain. Is this, or is this not, similar to how IBM became dominant in the computer mainframe business? Explain.
5) We now think of Windows-Intel (WIntel) personal computers rather than the IBM PC, how were Microsoft and Intel able to become so well known and successful as product brands? Explain.
6)How did Microsoft become dominant over Apple, then IBM, in the personal computer industry. Explain.
7)Why does best technology not always become the most commercially successful. Explain with example(s).
8) The Triumph Of The Nerds documentary series ends with Steve Jobs (Apple) and Steve Balmer (Microsoft) expressing their opinions about the relative merits of the Macintosh and Windows. Which of these personal computer systems, Mac or WIntel, have you used, which one do you mainly use, why do you use it and, if you have used both, which do you prefer and why? Do you think it is necessary to know how to use the Mac and Windows operating systems? Explain.
(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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----------------------------------------------------------------<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: triumphofthenerds.html
(5) Click on: 'Save and Continue Editing'
(6) In the HTML Editor window, in the html code, <title>Untitled</title> , replace 'Untitled' with: Triumph Of The Nerds
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>Triumph Of The Nerds</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <P> <---- This is where the first paragraph of the text you wrote in Part 1 will go (your name, etc.) </P> </body> </html>----------------------------------------------------------------
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As indicated above, the first paragraph of your own content will be copied from the triumphofthenerds.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: Triumph Of The Nerds Assignment
(10) In the 'Web Address' textbox, opposite, replace the text with: ca.oocities.com/cfadw_yourstudentnumber/triumphofthenerds.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 triumphofthenerds.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, Student number, Triumph Of The Nerds 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 Triumph Of The Nerds assignment. Then press Enter/Return on your keyboard twice (2 times).
(Use your own first name and last name.)
(9) Type the full URL of your CFADW website address then press Enter/Return on your keyboard twice (2 times).
(10) Open the file triumphofthenerds.txt in the text editor then, copy the text of your answers to the questions about Triumph Of The Nerds and, below the information you entered in step 8, paste the text into your email.
(11) Below the Cc: textbox, click on the checkbox for: 'Save copy to Sent folder'.
(12) In the Yahoo email composer page, click on: 'Send'.
You should receive the Cc: of your email in your Inbox fairly soon after you sent your email.
(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.