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| This book is available online as a pdf for free at http://www.bitsbook.com/excerpts/ and the related website with additional material is at http://www.bitsbook.com/. In particular, you may find [[http://www.bitsbook.com/blog/|their blog]] interesting and relevant to your work. | This book is available online as a pdf for free at http://www.bitsbook.com/excerpts/ and the related website with additional material is at http://www.bitsbook.com/. In particular, you may find [[http://www.bitsbook.com/blog/|their blog]] interesting and relevant to your work. | ||
| - | To help you navigate the book, the following table summarizes which lecture topics correspond to which chapters. You are of course free to select any chapter, regardless what was covered in class. | + | To help you navigate the book, the following table summarizes which lecture topics //loosely correspond// to which chapters. You are of course free to select any chapter (or related sections from multiple chapters), regardless what was covered in class. |
| - | ^ CS 190 Topic ^ Blown to Bits ^ | + | ^ CS 190 Topic ^ Blown to Bits ^ |
| - | | ... | ... | | + | | The Internet | Appendix: \\ The Internet as System and Spirit | |
| - | | ... | ... | | + | | Social Networking | Chapter 2: Naked in the Sunlight: \\ Privacy Lost, Privacy Abandoned | |
| - | | ... | ... | | + | | Security | Chapter 5: Secret Bits: \\ How Codes Became Unbreakable | |
| + | | Ethics | Chapter 7: You Can’t Say That on the Internet: \\ Guarding the Frontiers of Digital Expression | | ||
| + | | Intellectual Property | Chapter 6: Balance Toppled: \\ Who Owns the Bits? | | ||
| + | | Digital Divide | | | ||
| + | | Gaming | | | ||
| + | | History & Computation | Chapter 1: Digital Explosion: \\ Why Is It Happening, and What Is at Stake? | | ||
| + | ^ Other Topics ^ ^ | ||
| + | | Digital Documents | Chapter 3: Ghosts in the Machine: \\ Secrets and Surprises of Electronic Documents | | ||
| + | | Search Engines | Chapter 4: Needles in the Haystack: \\ Google and Other Brokers in the Bits Bazaar | | ||
| + | | Censorship/Regulation | Chapter 8: Bits in the Air: \\ Old Metaphors, New Technologies, and Free Speech | | ||
| Specific instructions and guidelines: | Specific instructions and guidelines: | ||
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| * This assignment must be your individual work; you may not collaborate with other students other than discussing the book or course issues in general. | * This assignment must be your individual work; you may not collaborate with other students other than discussing the book or course issues in general. | ||
| - | Please submit your essay to the TA via email ([[cmayfiel@cs.purdue.edu]]). Preferred formats are PDF or RTF (both can be generated by GoogleDoc). Note that one should be cautious about sending DOC files: besides not being free software, DOC files can contain hidden information one may not want the recipient to know. | + | Please submit your essay to the TA via email ([[cmayfiel@cs.purdue.edu]]), **preferably as a PDF attachment** (see below). You will receive a reply confirming the receipt of your document. The deadline is **Friday March 12th at 5:00 PM**. Late work will not be accepted; enjoy your Spring Break! |
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| - | You will receive a reply confirming the receipt of your document. The deadline is **Friday March 12th at 5:00 PM**. Late work will not be accepted; enjoy your Spring Break! | + | |
| + | ====== Creating PDFs ====== | ||
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| + | Note that one should be cautious about sending .doc (or .docx) files: besides not being fully portable, .doc files often contain hidden information that one may not want the recipient to know (see [[http://www.electronicevidenceretrieval.com/molisani_meta_data.htm|here]], [[http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HP051901021033.aspx|here]], and Blown to Bits chapter 3). | ||
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| + | There are many ways to create (or, print) a PDF file: | ||
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| + | * [[http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatpro/|Acrobat Pro]] is available in any of the [[http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/lab/standard_software.cfm|ITaP Instructional Labs]]. | ||
| + | * You can also download free software that installs a "pdf printer" on your own computer: | ||
| + | * http://www.pdfforge.org/ (recommended) | ||
| + | * http://www.cutepdf.com/ | ||
| + | * [[https://docs.google.com/|Google Docs]], [[http://www.openoffice.org/|Open Office]], and other office suites have the ability to import Word documents and export PDFs. | ||
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| + | Feel free to contact the TA if you have any questions regarding this process. | ||
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