CS 101 Homework 1

Due: Monday, January 14, 11:59pm


  1. Get a CS account if you haven't done so already
  2. Any web pages you create for homework or projects MUST be put in the HTML folder of your account - otherwise they won't be accessible from the web. You must follow these steps exactly:
    1. Once your account is set up, login. If there is a folder called html, go on to step 2. Otherwise, create a folder called "html" without the quotes. It must be all lower case.
    2. In the HTML folder, make a subdirectory called "homework" without the quotes.
    3. In the homework folder, create directories for each assignment called "hw1", "hw2", etc., (without quotes in the name). For all web assignments, the files must be placed in the appropriate folder. If you do not do this properly, we will not be able to grade your assignments. Links to your homework for the grader are generated automatically, so there is no room for error. Please make sure that your directories observe proper case - everything should be in lowercase letters. The wrong case will make us unable to grade your online assignments.
    4. You can check that the above is correct by going to this URL:
      http://www.classes.cs.uchicago.edu/~username/homework/hw1
      where you replace username with your actual username. If you see something like this:

      Index of /homework/hw1

      Name                   Last
      	modified     Size  Description
      	-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      	Parent Directory       23-Jun-00
      	14:10      -  
      	

      then it is correct. If you see this:

      File Not Found

      The requested URL /homework/hw1 was not found on this server.

      you did something wrong.

  3. In your newly created directory for Homework 1, html/homework/hw1, create a web page that includes the following:
    1. your name
    2. your email address
    3. the courses you are taking this quarter
    4. A brief paragraph that describes your computer literacy and any computer courses you have taken.
      You are free to use any HTML tags you want, but the page should be readable and reasonably well organized.
    5. Save this page as hw1.html in your hw1 directory. (The URL of this page should be
      http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~[username]/homework/hw1/hw1.html


Grading Points
creating html directory 55
creating directories for homework 10
creating html page 5
marking-up text 15
page layout 15
Total points: 100