CS 4873 Computer Networks, Fall 1999 Assignment 0

Due Tuesday, September 7, 1999

Assignment 0 has 5 parts.

Part 0:
Access the web site: /classes/cs4873f1999 and find out about assignment 1.

Part 1:
Make sure that you have had your picture taken. If it was not done after the first class, come to my office.

Part 2:
Subscribe to the newsgroups utsa.cs.4873 and utsa.cs.4873.d. You should check these newsgroups at least once a week. Read all of the articles in these newsgroups.

Part 3
If you have not already done so, create a web page for yourself.
The address of your web page should be http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~username. Create a course web page with web address http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~username/cs4873/index.html. This should be globally accessible. Your course web page should be very simple without much graphics so that it will load quickly over a phone line.

The permissions of the public_html and cs4873 directories should be drwxr-xr-x and the permissions of the index.html file should be -rw-r--r--.

If you are not familiar with creating HTML files, you may want to use the template available in /usr/local/courses/cs4873/fall1999/webtemplate. Put the file index.html in your ~username/public_html/cs4873 directory. Edit this file and replace my name with yours in two places.

Part 4:
When you have completed the other parts of the assignment, send me email at srobbins@cs.utsa.edu informing me that you have completed all parts of Assignment 0. The subject line should be
CS 4873 Assignment 0
The body of your mail message should contain a statement indicating that you have completed the prerequisites for the course and indicate how you satisfied each prerequisite. For example you can state that you took CS 3733 at UTSA last fall and took STA 3513 last spring. If you have not completed the prerequisites, include a statement indicating why you think you have the background to take this course.

Also in the email message answer the following questions about your textbook:

  1. What is the printing of the book? You can find this out by looking at the copyright page. This page starts out with Library of Congress Calaloging ... Near the bottom of the page is an ISBN number and above this is a decreasing sequence of integers like:
       10 9 8 7 6 5
    The largest number in the list is the printing, in this case it is 5.
  2. Look at page 201 and tell me if there is the phrase /* get the acknowledgement */ near the end of the first program.

If you are not prompted for a subject line when you send mail, insert an alias in your .cshrc as follows:
alias mail mailx
source your .cshrc and try again.