Assignment 1 is due Friday, January 30, 2009 at 9:00 pm.

View:
Chapter 1 - Email Power Point Slides
(Link to slides can be found on Summaries page of class site.)
Visit:
blackboard.unh.edu and login. Follow the link for UNH E-mail in the Tool menu on the left side to access cisunix WebMail.

22 Points

This homework assignment involves sending two email messages. Please use either Pine or Webmail from your UNH email account.The emails that you send should contain plain text only (no Word documents or attachments). This is true for any correspondance you send us. Also, if you have a question, please do not embed it the homework assignment - it will not be read until we go to grade the assignment (which will probably be too late...). For questions, address an email with a Subject of CS403_01 Question (if you are in section 01, otherwise substitute your section for the 01).

Login to your account, change your password from the default (if necessary), and experiment with the Pine mail program and WebMail. Practice by emailing messages to yourself and reading them. Refer to Appendix B: Text Editing and Appendix C: Pine Mail Program in the text for help with Pine. Experiment with WebMail at webmail.unh.edu. Be sure to check out the CIS Unix WebMail Tips at pubpages.unh.edu/notes/imp_tips.html.

  1. (12 points) Send an e-mail to our grader, Dan (der29@cisunix.unh.edu), with a subject of:
    CS403_01 Assignment 1A followed by your name if you are in section 01 (TR 11:10 - 12:30 section) or
    CS403_03 Assignment 1A followed by your name if you are in section 03 (TR 3:40 - 5:00 section) or
    CS403_04 Assignment 1A followed by your name if you are in section 04 (TR 5:10 - 6:30 section)

    Enter your own userid in the Cc field so that a copy of the email will be sent to you as well. You should save a copy of all homework submissions until the end of the semester. It would make sense to set up a folder to hold all of the homework copies as the semester progresses.

    This e-mail should contain the following in the body of the message:
    1. (1 point) Your grading code.
      This is so that we can confidentially post your homework grades on-line. The grading code is just a word or string of characters that you select so your homework grades can be posted confidentially on-line. Choose a code that is 6 characters or less and easy for you to remember. Do not use your password for your code!
    2. (3 points) Your signature.
      A signature (as described in class and the book) is automatically added by your mail program to every email that you compose so you need to go through the set-up process before you compose your email for this assignment. A signature should include your contact information, and it may include a quote, and it may include some ascii art.
      Here are links to two ascii generators: The signature that you create should be more that just your name for the purpose of the assignment... Be sure to set up your signature *before* you compose your email message for this assignment. The other email you send as part of this assignment should also include the signature so do this part of the assignment first!
      Note: When viewing your signature in a sent email, it should appear dimmed - in order to accomplish this, you need to specify that you want your signature preceeded by -- when setting it up.
    In addition, this email should also contain the answers to the following questions:
    1. (2 points) What is my policy about plagiarism and cheating?
    2. (2 points) What are the dates of our three exams?
    3. (2 points) How many homework assignments will there be and how is homework calculated into the final grade?
    4. (2 points) What is my policy about late homework?
    Note: The information necessary to answer the above questions was discussed on the first day of class and the answers can also be found in the introductory Power Point Slides on the Summaries page of our class site.
  2. (10 points) Send an email to our TA, Danni (dpL25@cisunix.unh.edu), with a subject of:
    CS403_01 Assignment 1B followed by your name or
    CS403_03 Assignment 1B followed by your name or
    CS403_04 Assignment 1B followed by your name (depending on your section of CS403).
    Don't forget to Cc a copy to yourself (that is, put your userid in the Cc field). The email that you send Danni will contain two short essays that are described below. E-mail the essays in plain text (no attachments, please). You should send this email only after you have successfully set up your signature in part IA above. And for those of you who need to know how much to write, 200 - 300 words for each essay is fine.
    Here are the essays:
    1. (Essay 1: 5 points) Ellen Goodman, a columnist for the Boston Globe, wrote an opinion piece about email and the Internet that was published on August 14, 2005. Please read the article called A Snail Mail Tale and summarize what the author's opinion is AND what your opinion is on the topic.
    2. (Essay 2: 5 points) President Barack Obama made use of text messages, e-mails and social networking sites to get elected. What role will these technologies play once he takes office and in your opinion, is it a good thing or not?
      Here links to two articles for you to read when formulating your essay:
    Finally, print off a hard-copy of the essays with your name on it and submit to Ellen during class on Thursday, January 29 (note that this is before the rest of the assignment is due).
    3. © McGraw-Hill 2009. All rights reserved.
    This presentation accompanies the book "In-line/On-line: Fundamentals of the Internet and World Wide Web" (ISBN 0-07-236755-5) written by Raymond Greenlaw and Ellen Hepp.