Homework for CSCI 107.002

Homework 1 - Due 15 September, 1997

Write a short description, a couple of paragraphs, of how shareware started using documents found on the World Wide Web. Start with the page http://www.freewarehof.org/sstory.html. Be sure to mention the sources you use in gathering your material.

Also, list three different shareware programs found on the Web.

Homework 2 - Due 1 October, 1997

Show how your bulldog.unca.edu user-id would be encoded into ASCII using even-parity. The panels on pages 168 and 169 of the textbook should help you out here.

Homework 3 - Due 8 October, 1997

Look into some computer-related magazine and find prices for the following items.

Dynamic RAM for a personal computer
RAM for a laser printer
Hard disk
Pentium motherboard
Graphics card
Sound card
PCMIA modem
Color monitor
Notebook with active-matrix color display
Pocket PC or PDA

Turn in your answers as a specific list of items that give significant performance information and prices, e.g.,

16 Mbytes, 32 bit DRAM, 70 ns -- $33

Homework 4 - Due 26 November, 1997

Chapter 8 of the textbook discusses several topics related to "consumer communications" that we didn't discuss in class. These include:

cell telephones
GPS receivers
pagers
NetPC's

Choose some topic related to consumer communications. Find at least two articles in the popular press and at least two Internet pages that discuss that topic. Write a brief report on the topic; however, don't turn in your report. Instead save it on the Internet in HTML format at the following URL:

http://www.unca.edu/~YOURID/csci107.html

By the way, it never hurts to have a few images on an Internet page. If you don't care to HTML in pico, WordPerfect 8, which is installed in the Karpen hall labs, will transform a WordPerfect document into HTML.

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