Introduction

Tom Kelliher, CS14A

Feb. 5, 1997

Syllabus and Course Administration

First Day Survey

Starting/Stopping the Computer

Logging-In/Out

Using MS Word

Using GroupWise

Attachments.

Printing

Questions

Create an MS Word document and answer the following questions. E-mail them as an attachment to me, or print a copy and hand it in.

1. What do you want this course to do for you?

2. Currently, how comfortable are you with computers?

3. What personal productivity software (word processor, spreadsheet, database, communications) have you ever used? How much?

4. What Internet applications (Web browser, e-mail, discussion lists, chat rooms, gopher, newsgroups, telnet) have you ever used? How much?

5. Have you ever used a programming language? Which one? How much?

6. Have you ever been involved in purchasing a computer? Would you want to do it again?

7. Have you ever seen the inside of a computer? Was it ``gross?''

8. Have you ever installed a piece of software? What was it?

9. What is ``safe computing?''

10. What is computer literacy?