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Fall 2008 LPT730 Weekly Schedule

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Weekly schedule remarks

  • This schedule is tentative and is subject to change
  • This schedule is not intended to be edited by students directly, but student input via email is encouraged
  • The instructional portion of the course will consist of 11 weekly sessions
  • A "Session" for this course starts on Thursday starting with a lecture followed by a lab on Tuesday

General rules about LPT730 labs

  • All labs are due on Wednesdays 11:59 p.m. at the end of their respective sessions
  • Labs are subject to a penalty of 20% of their mark for each 24 hours if completed late
  • Make sure to reference your work - anything that you did not know and had to find out, even if not quoted directly must be referenced
  • An article without references will not be accepted
  • A single source will not be accepted
  • Each article/topic entry must be at least 350 words in length
  • Email your professor with the blog URL (if applicable) so your work can be aggregated for others to see
  • These rules apply to all labs unless noted otherwise

Meet and Greet (Sept 2)

  • If possible, come and introduce yourself in person

Lab #0

  • Open a blog account if you do not have one
  • Create a blog section devoted to the LPT730 course
  • In the first blog entry tell about yourself
    • Education and/or professional background
    • Your interests in computers (other than playing games)
    • Hobbies away from computers
    • Anything else you wish to share with the world
  • In another entry write an article about two desktop software applications that you use often.
    • Your choices do not have to be Linux-based or open source, but please make an effort to show us something unusual - MS Office, Firefox etc. are not the best choices
    • What do you use it for and why
    • Highlight strengths and weaknesses of the software
    • For each of your choices provide at least one screenshot

Note: this lab is not graded, however mandatory. This lab is exempted from the length and referencing requirements unless something is copied or quoted directly.

Session 01 (Sept 4 - Sept 10) - Course Introduction, Software Licensing

Lecture

  • Course Introduction
  • Software Licensing Modes
  • Open Source Licensing
  • Fedora Linux
    • General Overview
    • GNOME Desktop
  • Package Management and Repositories
  • Software Integrity
  • Software covered
    • GNOME
    • rpm
    • yum
    • md5sum

Lab #1

  • Research and blog about the following topics:
    • Topic 1: Software Patents - good or bad?
    • Topic 2: Proposed Federal Bill C-61 and its potential impact on open source software

Session 02 (Sept 11 - Sept 17) - Electronic Communication

Lecture

  • Electronic Mail
  • IRC
  • Instant Messaging
  • VOIP
  • Video Conferencing
  • Communication Protocols
  • The role of encryption
  • Software Covered
    • Evolution
    • Mozilla Thunderbird
    • Alpine
    • Chatzilla
    • XChat
    • Irssi
    • Pidgin
    • Ekiga

Lab #2

  • TBA

Session 03 (Sept 18 - Sept 24) - Browsers

Session 04 (Sept 25 - Oct 1) - Finding and Moving Files

Session 05 (Oct 2 - Oct 8) - File Formats

Session 06 (Oct 9 - Oct 15) - File Formats Continued and Assignment 1 Presentations

Midterm Test (Oct 16)

FSOSS and Study Week (Oct 20 - Oct 24)

Fun and Games (Oct 27)

Session 07 (Oct 30 - Nov 5) - Graphics Applications

Session 08 (Nov 6 - Nov 12) - Multimedia Software

Session 09 (Nov 13 - Nov 19 ) - Office Productivity

Session 10 (Nov 20 - Nov 26) - Document Creation

Session 11 (Nov 27 - Dec 3) - Document Creation Continued and Assignment 2 Presentations

Course Wrap-Up and Review (Dec 4) =

Exam Week (Dec 8 - Dec 12)

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