Graded the objective exams 5th period!

No one got a perfect score but there were some great scores! Seems pretty good.

Time to grade the essay exams!

I never knew how talented my 5th period was at Unreal Tournament!

Congrats to Luis for an over 600 kickups score.

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If you did it your essays on blogger leave your comment here.

Here are some notes for your essay about Linux v. Microsoft

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dc65q8nz_92jvk592

1. http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=420
   
   
2. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/316618_youtube22.html
   
   
3. http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6185466.html
   
   
4. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6680457.stm
   
   
5. http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=mg19426046.400&feedId=being-human_rss20

There will be questions based on these five articles on your final.

World's Hardest Logic Puzzle

Three gods A, B, and C are called, in some order, True, False, and Random. True always speaks truly, False always speaks falsely, but whether Random speaks truly or falsely is a completely random matter. Your task is to determine the identities of A, B, and C by asking three yes-no questions; each question must be put to exactly one god. The gods understand English, but will answer all questions in their own language, in which the words for yes and no are 'da' and 'ja', in some order. You do not know which word means which.

30 points of your final exam!
Essay question for PHP-MySQL group (10 points) 5 paragraphs.:

• You have been hired by a prominent young businessman to design a dynamic website, specifically a dating website. He wants users to be able to create profiles, upload pictures, play games, and write messages on a forum. How will you store the information? How will you display the information? How will you create the game? Obviously you aren't coding anything here, you are just describing technologies and how they relate in a coherent whole. Discuss how the technologies will interact with each other. Pretend you are writing for a nearly computer illiterate individual.
  

Essay question for the Module Crew (10 points) 5 paragraphs:

• You have been hired by the Module Company to design their newest Programming module. How will you improve it? What will you add? What will you remove? Will you offer games? Tests? How will students be graded? Be creative and design an amazing module.

Essay question for all (10 points):

• This essay will be comparing open source software with the dominant operating system Microsoft Windows in the desktop market and the server market. First give a definition of open source software and proprietary software. Next compare the desktop market. Do any Linux distributions offer an advantage in the desktop market? Why is Microsoft the clear winner?
  
  Finally compare the server market. Give statistics as to which OS is dominant and explain why.

Second essay question for all (there are three essays in total, 10 points):

In today's world it is important to specialize. Pick one area of information technology from something discussed in class and discuss how it could translated into a career. Find jobs available in that area on Monster.com or a similar job hunting website. Explain why you are interested in this particular field.

Answer must be posted on blog or Google Documents by 2:30pm on day of final May 29th for Second Period and May 24th for 5th period.

Head your Google Document or blog with the following:

FIRST NAME, LAST NAME
KILLIAN COMPUTERS

When is it okay to pirate software, if ever?

Is the author correct? Does piracy encourage people to BUY things?

What should movie companies do to stop piracy (if anything)?

Adsense and adwords

Check out this article about adsense arbitrage.

Flash based game

Let's see if this is blocked by X-Stop:

http://www.myminilife.com

It seems like a neat Flash game.

I've added the home I made to my web page for the class review. Check it out:

http://davidcfreer.com/~David/project%20for%20aoit.html

Why people don't switch to Linux...

Read this. It helps to explain why people don't switch to Linux.

2nd period only

Second period look at this:

Suggestion...

An astute student suggested printed out copies of the study guide!

So on Monday you will get a paper copy of the study guide.

It will be complete so you can study away from the computer.

Essay question for PHP-MySQL group (10 points) 5 paragraphs.:

• You have been hired by a prominent young businessman to design a dynamic website, specifically a dating website. He wants users to be able to create profiles, upload pictures, play games, and write messages on a forum. How will you store the information? How will you display the information? How will you create the game? Obviously you aren't coding anything here, you are just describing technologies and how they relate in a coherent whole. Discuss how the technologies will interact with each other. Pretend you are writing for a nearly computer illiterate individual.
  

Essay question for the Module Crew (10 points) 5 paragraphs:

• You have been hired by the Module Company to design their newest Programming module. How will you improve it? What will you add? What will you remove? Will you offer games? Tests? How will students be graded? Be creative and design an amazing module.

Essay question for all (10 points):

• This essay will be comparing open source software with the dominant operating system Microsoft Windows in the desktop market and the server market. First give a definition of open source software and proprietary software. Next compare the desktop market. Do any Linux distributions offer an advantage in the desktop market? Why is Microsoft the clear winner?
  
  Finally compare the server market. Give statistics as to which OS is dominant and explain why.
  

Answer must be posted on blog or Google Documents by 2:30pm on day of final May 29th for Second Period and May 24th for 5th period.