CS-490: Assignments

  1. Read the following article about Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com and how he came about starting his business. (by Thursday, December 2nd)
  2. Read the article handed out in class. (by Thursday, December 2nd)
  3. Fill in and return the hand-out distributed in class (by Tuesday, November 30th)
  4. Classifying web-usage (due Tuesday, December 7th)
  5. Tool time(proposal due Friday December 10th)
  6. Habit for CS web-site project (first installment, due Wednesday, December 15th, midnight)
  7. Read the New Yorker article entitled "Clicks and Mortar" that was handed out in class. Read it by Friday, December 10th, and turn in a short (two to three paragraph) report in which you list the main points made by the author, and discuss those points.
  8. Things that can't be done with the web (due Friday, December 17th)
  9. Cyber Feast (future homework)
  10. The Future
  11. Habitat for CS Web-site - Phase II
  12. This is not a homework, but a challange, which may translate into a project. It might be a good idea to generate some publicity in the Coke Machine Project. How about if we hold a Rose-wide auction for the first official web-purchase on the machine. Here is the challenge: We could hold a regular auction, offering this opportunity to the highest bidder. However, this would most likely prevent cash strapped students from winning. Instead, how about some sort of raffle where everyone buys tickets to get a chance to win the prize. The only problem is holding a raffle over the web (and I think, whatever we do, we should hold the "auction" over the web) seems impractical. How are you going to collect the money for the raffle tickets? Any ideas? [I am hoping to find some time over the christmas break to hook up a bulleting board so that we can discuss these and other issues online.]
  13. Tool time presentation schedule.
  14. The project
  15. I posted information on how to run CGI-scripts on the CS-server.