Exercise A (5 points/1000 except in classes where it's optional)

Post Personal Introduction and Reply on the Blackboard Discussion Board, Send Blackboard Message, and Then Submit Zip File

• Go into Blackboard
  1. Enter your Blackboard ID and Password
  2. Click on the link for this CIS class
• Click the Communication link on the left navigation bar and then the Discussion Board link
  1. Click on the Exercise A - Introductions topic
  2. Click on the Add New Thread button
  3. Put in your name as the subject using the name by which you want to be known (and will use all quarter on projects and exercises)
  4. For the personal introduction, include:
     • A brief personal introduction, which includes one little-known fact about you (you can use my introduction as a model or you can be more creative)
     • A short summary of any experience that you have with programming languages
     • A picture of yourself attached to the message (you can scan a picture of yourself in the Computing Commons laboratory on the 5th floor of the CLA building)
• Also post a reply to some other person's message. You could make a (polite) comment about what you thought about their message, or ask a question about it, etc.
  • if someone asks you a question in their reply, it would be polite to answer their question by replying to it
• Go to the Messages area (this link is also accessible by clicking the Communication link in the left navigation bar)
  1. Click on the New Message button
  2. Click on the To button, scroll down to and select Ralph Westfall (instructor), and then click on the right facing triangle button
  3. Put in "[the name by which you want to be known] Email Address" for the subject
  4. In the Message, type in the email address (outside of Blackboard) that you check most often (I might need this to contact you if I can't reach you through Blackboard)
  5. Then click the Submit button to send your outside email address message to Prof. Westfall
• The deliverables for this assignment include five (5) files: three .txt files (one for each of the three messages, including the name of the person you responded to in that file), an image file, and a Word .doc file. The contents of all these files (not just the files themselves) [thanks to Nonye Okorie] are pasted into the .doc file, and all these files also go into a .zip file. To get some experience with the Blackboard assignment submission process, follow the instructions for creating and submitting the .doc and .zip files at Initial Exercises Submission Instructions
• For an explanation of the grading in relation to the deadlines for all assignments, see Early Bonus and Late Penalty Grading