Fall 2008 LPT730 Weekly Schedule
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
Links
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