Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 07:16:21
   From: Mark Jacobson <jacobson@math-cs.cns.uni.edu>
     To: 810-021-02@uni.edu
Subject: Quiz on Monday...  CD-ROM lab due too...

Hi 021 students,

     The quiz will be on Monday.  Someone asked me AFTER class about
the Wednesday quiz, AFTER people were already leaving the room and too
late to remind everyone about the quiz.

     We will have a quiz on Monday.  It would be great to remind the
class today in class, during class, about that.  It would be great to
remind class again on Friday.  Please mention it during class!
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     Study Guide:

     Lecture notes and chapter 4 material on Computer Files and Data
     Storage.  You did 3 different chapter 4 labs.  You have a good
     background now on tracks and sectors and clusters and FAT and
     fragmentation for disk storage.

     Lecture notes and chapter 5 material on Computer Architecture.
     You did the CPU Simulator lab.  We discussed in lecture the
     fetch/execute cycle and L1 and L2 cache memory.  You have
     enough background from lecture notes to see the major mistake
     on page 224 of the textbook.  The 4 generations of computers.
     Vacuum tubes, transistors, integrated circuits and microprocessors.
     Who invented the computer?

     PhotoShop basics such as Ctrl++ and Ctrl+- to increase or decrease.
     What does the Edit menu Stroke command do?  What does a Gaussian Blur
     do in your button project?  What icon would you click to return to
     the default Foreground and Background colors?  What icon allows you
     to move things?  What does Alt+Backspace do?  What icon do you click
     to choose the tool that allows you to move a Text Layer or selection
     to a new position on the canvas?

     The Troubleshooting Lab on page 245 will be due on Monday.  Do
     #1 STEPS and #2, #3, #4, and #5 EXPLOREs.  Computers sometimes
     malfunction, so it is useful to have some skill and diagnosing,
     if not fixing, some of the hardware problems you might encounter.
     In this lab, you use a simulated computer that has trouble booting.
     Pages 234-239 of chapter 5 are:
                       User Focus - Troubleshooting and the Boot Process

     and cover the concepts behind the page 245 Lab on Troubleshooting.

     Mark