CONCEPTS FOR A DIGITAL WORLD

STARTUP.COM ASSIGNMENT


Carefully read and complete the following information and instructions.

This assignment must be completed by Midnight, Thursday, April 15, 2004.
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 Microsoft Windows, this assignment can be done with any operating system and a text editor.

There are many sources of information available on the Internet about the Startup.Com documentary. To find them, type startupdotcom into a search engine such as Google: startupdotcom Google search

If you were absent for the showing of Startup.Com, you may still do this assignment if you rent the film and view it (I have found it available at Blockbuster and other video rental stores). If you do this, you will have to submit proof that you rented the film by submitting the original rental receipt to Mr. Richmond on Friday, April 16, in class.

This assignment is comprised of 5 parts.
This assignment is worth 15% of your final mark.
Plagiarism will result in a penalty of -30% (minus 30 percent) applied to your final mark.

Part 1:

While using a text editor, such as Notepad, write about the Startup.com documentary.

Make sure that your writing is well organized, coherent, grammatically correct, and typographical and spelling errors are corrected.

Part 2:

You will send an email from your own CFADW course Yahoo!GeoCities email account to the CFADW course email account (crn43003@yahoo.ca) with the content of your startupdotcom.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 (crn43003@yahoo.ca).

Part 1:

(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: startupdotcom.txt
'Save' it to your floppy disk.

(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: 'Startup.Com' (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 Startup.com 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.

Some content which you should include are your own answers and comments about:

      1. The film in general (DO NOT REITERATE/RESTATE THE PLOT OF THE FILM).

      2. The principal characters (the partners, family, close friends).

      3. The company (govworks.com).

      4. The employees.

      5. The company's product and services.

      6. The potential of the company's product/service.

      7. The competition.

      8. Company financing.

      9. Reasons why the company failed and what may have been done to avoid the demise of the company.

      10. How did the dotcom boom and bust affect govworks?

      11. Who were the winners and losers and why?

      12. What have Kaleil and Tom done since the failure of Govworks?

      13. State and explain how Kaleil and Tom and Govworks are similar other characters and companies such as Nikola Tesla, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates, Apple, Microsoft, etc.

      14. What did you learn from the Startup.Com documentary?

      15. Anything else you would like to state about the film and its content.

(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 April 16.

(7) You are going to use your startupdotcom.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: crn43003@yahoo.ca

(6) Enter the email Subject: First name, Last name, Student number, StartupDotCom 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 StartupDotCom assignment.
(Use your own first name and last name.)

(9) Copy the text you wrote about StartupDotCom from your text editor and paste the text to 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'.

You should receive the Cc: of your email in your CFADW course email account (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.

Part 3:

(1) Access http://ca.geocities.yahoo.com/home

(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: startupdotcom.html

(5) Click on: 'Save and Continue Editing'

(6) In the HTML Editor window, in the html code, <title>Untitled</title> , replace 'Untitled' with: Startup.Com 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: 

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<html>
<head>
	<title>Startup.Com 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 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.

Part 4:

The following instructions apply to a homepage (index.html) which can be edited through the use of Yahoo! PageWizards.
If you have previously manually edited your homepage (index.html), 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: StartupDotCom Assignment

(10) In the 'Web Address' textbox, opposite, replace the text with: ca.oocities.com/cfadw_yourstudentnumber/startupdotcom.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 'startupdotcom.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: crn43003@yahoo.ca

(6) Enter the email Subject: First name, Last name, StartupDotCom 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'.

You should receive the Cc: of your email in your 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.