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Computer Science 101 - Computer and Information Technology
Prof. Steven Skiena
Fall 1996

Project 2 - Searching the Internet
Due Wednesday, October 23, 1996

The Internet provides access to an amazing amount of useful information, if you know where to look. This assignment will use both your Microsoft Word and Internet skills, as you will write a short term paper while doing all your research via the Internet.

Doing a thorough search on the Internet is much more than just typing in the search title into one search engine:

You are required to turn in a two part paper written in Microsoft Word. There should be a 5-7 page term paper describing the most interesting and important material that you found. There should also be a 3-5 page paper describing how you proceeded on your search, what resources you found, and what you learned (good and bad) about searching on the Internet. You must include the URLs of all resources you used and properly acknowledge your sources.

Rules of the Game

  1. The grade will be a depend upon (1) the quality of the information you find, (2) the depth of your search and reported experiences, (3) the appearance of the document produced, and (4) the quality of the writing. I anticipate that there will be more significant difference is quality on this assignment than the resume.
  2. Plagiarism is an academic crime, where you take someone elses words and use them directly in your paper. The nature of the Internet makes it each to incorporate someone elses text into your document. Resist this temptation! As quoted on my syllabus ``Because a primary goal of the course is to teach professionalism, any academic dishonesty will be viewed as evidence that this goal has not been achieved, and will be grounded for receiving a grade of F. (See CEAS Procedures and Guideline Governing Academic Dishonesty, 1/81.)'' Speak with me if you have any questions about this.
  3. In order to ensure that each student does their paper on a unique topic, I have randomly assigned three topics to student IDs, and this list is posted on my WWW site: http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/ skiena/101/cse101.html Pick whichever one of the three topics interests you the most, or which you find the best material for. These topics have been selected to be broad enough that there should be enough good information if you look hard enough.
  4. If you are very unhappy with your topic, discuss it with me at office hours. I will only permit topic changes until October 16, 1996 at 6:30PM, to ensure that you have time to do a complete search!
  5. By the begining of next week, you should have email accounts on the lab machines. Your login name is your first initial, followed by the first 7 characters of your last name. When you sign on, give you login name, your password (there is no initial password), and help for the server name.

    After you have signed on and started Windows 95, click the1 PMail icon on desktop to read and write mail. To send Internet mail, you must preface the address by in:, for example in:skiena@cs.sunsyb.edu

  6. This project can be completed during your lab section, during open lab hours in either Engineering 106 or the new lab 318 Harriman, or on any other computer running Word that you have access to.




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Steve Skiena
Wed Oct 9 17:12:56 EDT 1996