Lab 1
For this assignment, we will combine a few different tasks.
- Search the Internet for answers to various questions.
- Place a message in a Blackboard Discussion Forum
that contains the answers and a few other things.
Searching the Internet
According to the show of hands during lecture, most people state
they have used the internet to search for information. Many people
prefer to use Google at www.google.com
to search for information.
The key to using any search engine is determining the best keywords
to use for your search. Google's
Advanced Search at http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
is a good place to help narrow down the results from your search.
Lab Assignment 1
Due: Thursday 1/21/2010 by 11:59 pm (i.e. midnight)
Post a Message in Blackboard
- In the Discussion Board Area for CS 101 in Blackboard, you will
find a forum for "Lab 1 Discussion Forum".
- In that forum, you are to post a message that contains
- Your Name
- Your Hometown (or any area you wish was your hometown)
- A favorite joke or quotation. Please keep these in good taste
and interesting enough to provide good reading for the rest of the class.
- The answers to the following questions:
- What are the names of the moons of the planet Mars?
Include the URL where the answer can be found.
- Who is credited with finding the first computer bug?
Include the URL where the answer can be found.
- What is the value of Pi to the 20th decimal place?
Include the URL where the answer can be found.
- Accoding to the wikipedia, when was the Java programming language
first created?
Include the URL where the answer can be found.