CSC103 Homework 3 Fall 2012

--D. Thiebaut 10:51, 2 October 2012 (EDT)

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This assignment is due on Thursday, 10/11/12 at 9:00 a.m. The wiki page has to be done individually, one wiki page per person.

Problem 1: Wiki page with Report on Demolition Lab

• Create a wiki page on our student wiki system.
  1. Go to the class Wiki page at http://cs.smith.edu/classwiki/index.php/CSC103_Page_2012F
  2. Click on the words Log in at the top right of the page (see figure above)
  3. Use the Login and password account info you were given in class
  4. Then find your account on the page (it should appear in red font before your page is created)
  5. Click on it
  6. You should be faced with a new page with an edit window in the center.
  7. Start typing text.
  8. When you are done, go to the bottom of the page and click on the Save Page button.
  9. Click on the Edit menu (see figure below) at the top of the page to continue editing your page, and repeat the process as many times as necessary.

• Your page should be an illustrated report of the PC demolition lab when you took apart the computer.
• Each of the parts you found should be presented and documented.
  • You should have a photo of the part. The photo should be a photo you took during the lab.
  • You should write down what the part is (a processor, memory, the motherboard, etc...)
  • The part number, or marker for the part (e.g. Pentium 4), if you found one.
  • A quantity associated with the part (e.g. 512 MByte, or 2.8 GHz), if available.
  • A short description of what the purpose of this part is in a computer. What it's for. You can use the Web to find such information, which you should reference on your page, and you should create a link to that page. For example, if you use Wikipedia to describe what the processor is used for, you could do this as follows:

• Processor
  • Motorola 68010
  • 3.1 GHz
  • According to Wikipedia, a processor "incorporates the functions of a computer's central processing unit (CPU) on a single integrated circuit, (IC) or at most a few integrated circuits. It is a multipurpose, programmable device that accepts digital data as input, processes it according to instructions stored in its memory, and provides results as output. It is an example of sequential digital logic, as it has internal memory." (in Wikipedia. Retrieved Feb. 15 2012, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprocessor).

• Make sure you describe in this fashion all the different parts that were listed on the handout for Monday's lab. Make sure your page contains the answers to all the questions on the handout.

Requirements

• To make you good wiki editors, you will need to make sure your wiki page contains several important wiki constructs:
  • images aligned with the text (to the left) and aligned to the right. If your image is too big for the wiki, it will give you an error message when you try to load it. Use a service such as http://www.imageoptimizer.net/Pages/Home.aspx to reduce the size of your image. There are several on the Web that can reduce images for you. There are also several utilities that will perform this function on your computer. If you search Google for "How to reduce image size on Windows", or the same thing ending with "on Mac", you should find a simple solution.

• • A link to our main class page, which is at http://cs.smith.edu/dftwiki/index.php/CSC103_2012f
  • A link to the main wiki page, which is at http://cs.smith.edu/classwiki/index.php/CSC103_Page_2012F
  • A bulleted list
  • A numbered list
  • headers for paragraph sections (headers are created by equal signs on each side of the text).
  • text in bold typeface
  • text in italics typeface

Additional Information

You may find this short tutorial a good way to start creating your wiki. Look at the bottom of the tutorial for additional good references on creating Wiki elements.

Submission

You do not have to submit your page. I will find it on the Web, print it, annotate and grade it directly, without needing anything from you.

Warning!

The wiki system keeps track of the time you last edit a page. If your page has been edited after class on Thursday 10/11, it will be considered late and not graded!