IST 2710, Week 2,

Welcome to Week 2

Technical

  • Syllabus: 15 graded questions
  • Deadlines: 1 week; 1 additional week for revisions (add MU to filename)
  • Last semester’s grade distribution, what you must do to be assured of a C-/What must you do to be assured of an E
  • What’s Bailey White’s point?
  • To save you money and give better quality and more fun, I wrote down all the lessons. Usually, when you get a textbook, it’s been edited by at least 5 people. So please forgive any errors that remain (and draw my attention to them please).
  • I’ve made changes to Weeks 1-3, so, most up-to-date versions are on the internet, not coursepack
  • All assignments can be re-submitted for a higher grade. If the original grade was between 0-75, grade can be brought up to 85. If original grade was 76-90, grade can be brought up to 93. File name: same as the original + MU, e.g, JohnSmithSylQsMU

Starting the Computer

  • User Name: tomclass
  • Domain: guplab
  • Password (CaSe SeNsItIvE): 3Nv1r0nm3nT (#three, big N, little v, #one, little r, #zero, little n, little m, #3, little n, big T)

E-mail preferences

  • Save sent messages: yes
  • Messages seen in INBOX: 100,
  • Signature (and check yes yes),
  • Reply to: “Your Name”<>
  • Change password, if you want to

Portfolio & Cleaning up Drive C

As you come in, please fill in the appropriate information on p. 2 of your portfolio (Coursepack p. 90). As well, please delete all files from Drive C. I’ll be floating around to help you do both.

REMINDER: Nofood, drink, phone


Typing Segment: Eventually, we’ll be able to tell our computers what to write, kissing typing a final goodbye. But that sweet new day has not yet truly arrived, and, for the moment we must “interface” with computers by TYPING. The faster you type, the more time you save. So, our classes will occasionally include a brief typing segment. We first must learn correct finger placement, so we’ll spend a while with the figure below:


Photo Credit: Kiran Typing Tutor

Kiran’s Typing Tutor

Assignment 1 (Wk2Typing1): Study the correct placement of fingers, and call to show me that you have made some progress on this.

Record this assignments in your portfolio, p. 2 as: Wk2Typing

Assignment 2 (YourNameWk2Typing2): Take 3 tests and submit your scores (accuracy, wpm, kpm, errors) in each (via e-mail). Subject should say: YourNamWk2Typing2

Record this assignments in your portfolio, p. 2 as: Wk2Typing2

Do: Kiran’s Lessons 6-10


Wordprocessing with WORD /Dictionary Skills

Watch & Listen

Copy the material between the gold line above and below. Open a WORD file, and paste that material into it. Save the newly-created file in DRIVE C EXACTLY as: YourNameWk2WP1

Today we’ll focus on the following icons, heavily relying on the screen tips: Cut, Copy, Paste, Bold, Italics, Underline, Strikeout, Superscript, Subscript, Bullets, Number lists, Highlight, Font Color, Change CASE, Increase Font, Decrease Font. We’ll start by doing it together, helping each other until we all have a grasp of what is going on, and then by playing with only these two sub-menus, until we’re thoroughly comfortable with both.

I’m going to send you, as an e-mail attachment, the following file:

This chapter attempts to provide an accessible review of a fundamental scientific and philosophical question: Are animals conscious? Instead of trying to address the issue of consciousness as a whole, this partial review will for the most part touch upon just two facets of consciousness— theory of mind and insight.

This review takes it for granted that we need to place a question mark on the understandable but as yet unfounded assumption that our evolutionary next of kin—the great apes—are also our closest cognitive relatives. At the moment, we cannot rule out the view that “a classification of the animal kingdom based on intelligence would probably cut right across the classifications based on structure. Both within species, and in entire classes, there are great variations” (Hobhouse, 1915). As a matter of fact, at the moment we cannot even refute the counterintuitive claim that there are no differences in intelligence between one nonhuman vertebrate and another (Macphail, 1982; Thomas, 1986).

First of all, let’s use the computer to understand this passage. Please copy and paste into this file the meanings IN CONTEXT (that is, what meaning does the writer have in mind) of:

  • facets: —Write down the meaning the writer has in mind in blue font between the two blue dashes please—
  • cognitive:—Write down the meaning the writer has in mind in blue font here please—
  • counterintuitive:—Write down the meaning the writer has in mind in blue font here please—

Next, I want you to take the file above and convert it to this file:

This chapter attempts to provide an accessible review of a fundamental scientific and philosophicalquestion: Are animals conscious? Instead of trying to address the issue of consciousness as awhole, this partial review will for the most part touch upon just two facets of consciousness— theory of mindand1 insight.2

This review takes it for granted thatwe need to placea question mark on the understandable but as yet UNFOUNDED ASSUMPTION THAT OUR EVOLUTIONARYNEXT OF KIN—THE GREAT APES—ARE ALSO OUR CLOSEST COGNITIVE relatives. Atthemoment, wecannotruleoutthe view that “a classificationof the animalkingdombased on intelligence wouldsee probablyyet

  • cut right across the classificationsbased on structure.
  • Both withinspecies, andinentire classes,
  • there are great variations” (Hobhouse, 1915).

AS A MATTER OF FACT, AT THE MOMENT WE CANNOT EVEN REFUTE the counterintuitive claim that there are no differences in intelligence between one nonhumanvertebrate and another (Macphail, 1982; Thomas,1986).

Assignment 3: Now, send me the complete assignment. Don’t forget that the subject of your e-mail should be the file name: YourNameWk2WP1

Record this assignment in your portfolio as: Wk2WP1


Tower of Hanoi Puzzle

Imagine that you are faced with a board that has 3 pegs, I, II, and III (see the figure above). Peg I has 3 disks of different sizes, with the largest disk, G(reen), at the bottom, the middle one, R(ed), in the middle, and the smallest one, B(lue), on top. You need to transfer all 3 disks to peg III, as shown in the figure below. In doing so, you must follow four rules:

  1. You can only move one disk at a time.
  2. A disk must be moved from one peg to another.
  3. You can only move the top disk of a peg (e.g., in the above figure, you can only move Disk B of Peg I).
  4. A disk cannot be placed on a disk smaller than itself (e.g., Disk R can never be on placed on top of Disk B).

Your Assignment (YourNameWk2Hanoi):

  1. Hanoi is the capital of what country (look this up on the internet if you don’t know). —Write down the answer in blue font here please—
  2. That country is located at which continent? —Write down the answer in blue font here please—
  3. What’s the predominant religion in that country—Write down the answer in blue font here please—
  4. What’s the major language of that country? —Write down the answer in blue font here please—
  5. The continent of that country is located on which planet? —Write down the answer in blue font here please—
  6. Write a step-by-step solution to this problem (50% of the grade), so that a dumb robot might be able to follow your instructions. —Write down the answer in blue font here please, with each step receiving its own line—

When done, send me this assignment as YourNameWk2Hanoi

Record this assignment in your portfolio as: Wk2Hanoi


Excel

Please open EXCEL. Answer the questions below and send me a single excel file as an attachment, with the answers shown in the file itself: WATCH & LISTEN.

File name: YourNameWk2SS1

  1. What’s the average of all the odd numbers ranging from 17 to 77?
  2. What’s the sum of these numbers?
  3. What’s the standard deviation of this numbers?
  4. What’s the median of these numbers?
  5. How many numbers (do not count them, use Excel to tell you)

Record this assignments in your portfolio, p. 2 as: Wk2SS1


Now, complete filling in page 2 of your portfolio, turn off your computer and monitor, and call me to your work station to sign your portfolio and check that your work station is clean and computer is properly shut down.

See you next week!

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