CMPSCI 120

Homework 1 Form


CMPSCI 120 Students, Current Semester, Only!

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UMass Spire ID Number
Enter your full name,
Last Name, First Name, MI, as in:
Smith, Fred Q.



QUESTION ANSWER
Question 1.

Which of the following Web sites might be the least biased? (Enter the number 1, 2, 3, or 4.)
1 http://www.globalwarminglies.com/
2 http://www.governmentconspiracytheories.com/
3 http://www.knittingpictures.com/
4 http://www.myfavoriterecipes.com/
Question 2.

Write the complete URL to the site www.glop.org, where we get the page called junk.html from user jsmith
Question 3.

What is the exact HTML background color of this web page (the page you are looking at right now, but not the background color of the table).
Question 4.

What is the apparent on-screen background color of a page with the tag <BODY BGCOLOR="#EFFF2A">?
Question 5.

What is the decimal (base 10) value of the BLUE component of the color in the previous question?
Question 6.

Write an HTML image tag that references an file called MyPic.JPG in the same folder as the page which references it. Do not include TITLE or ALT attributes.
Question 7.

I create a button image in Windows Paint or other graphics design package. The button also contains a small picture of a person, but overall the total number of colors is around 200 or so. To include the button image in my Web page, should I save the image in the JPG, BMP, or GIF format?
Question 8.

In UNIX, what are the permissions on a file (rwxrwxrwx with dashes where permssions are absent) if I type the following command?

chmod 764 filename
Question 9.

PuTTY is an example of which kind of Internet tool, telnet or ftp?
Question 10.

What do PuTTY and WinSCP support today that is not supported by the early equivalent UNIX tools? (I.e., what feature or capability allows us to use the modern tools and not the historical tools?)