Date:  Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:49:19 -0500 (CDT)
   From:  Mark Jacobson <jacobson@math-cs.cns.uni.edu>
     To:  810-022-01@uni.edu
Subject:  2nd assignment, MASI (810:022 class)

We are having quiz #1 next Wednesday.

Assignment #2 - Due by Monday at noon, before the START of class.
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1.  Make at least one pass through the lecture notes and handouts
    and related readings.  Include the 1st assignment (tribute.xls)
    experience and lab notes/experiences.

2.  Develop 8 questions over the material that you think would be
    possible quiz questions and/or study questions.  Good stuff for
    you to review.  Good stuff for your fellow classmates to review
    and focus on.

    Your questions can be True/False and/or multiple choice and/or
    fill in the blank and/or short answer.  Do NOT have all 8 questions
    be one type of question.

    Create a .txt file using Notepad or using the cowboy.cns.uni.edu
    pico editor (or vi or emacs).  If you type questions directly
    in email instead of making a separate .txt file first,
    be sure to CC (carbon copy) or BCC (blind carbon copy) the note
    to yourself.

3.  After the 8 nicely laid out and formatted questions, not after each,
    after all of them, as the 2nd part of your note, write your answer
    key.  A brief discussion of answers, page numbers of book,
    handouts that would be useful or why a term or technique or
    VBA example is important to focus on is appropriate for this
    study answer key and guide to your practice questions.

    You can send #3 here (the key/guide paragraph(s) discussion)
    as a separate note, if you wish.  This #3 key/guide is NOT
    due by Monday at noon.  Finishing it and emailing it by
    Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. is perfectly fine.

4.  On Monday, during class, I will make a web page available
    that has most of these questions as a set of practice
    questions that everyone can look at.  We can review some of them
    during class as we review/summarize for the 1st quiz.

    After class on Monday, I will add the rest of the questions that
    looked good and did come in by the noon deadline.  As you know,
    I have a class at 11 a.m. so some of the email received that
    morning will NOT be processed until after our class.

    I'm sure there will be some overlap, so we probably will NOT
    end up with 32 * 8 = 256 questions total!                ---

    If you write great questions, you are likely to see some of your
    questions on the quiz on Wednesday.

5.  When you send your questions to jacobson@cns.uni.edu, please make the
    Subject: part of your email note say something like:

    Subject:  Assignment #2 - 022
       or
    Subject:  Assignment 2 - 8 questions

    Mark
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P.S.  What do I mean by nicely formatted questions?

      a.  use of white space between paragraphs, such as illustrated
          in this note.

      b.  numbers stand out, hanging indent, like these letters stand
          out here in this multiple choice questions, or numbers
          above stand out.

      c.  ample use of the Enter key to move to the next line and
          not relying on wordwrap features of email programs, which
          does NOT format correctly for work like this.

      d.  something that can be Edit menu Copied from an email note and
          then Edit menu Pasted into a text file to publish on
          http://www.cns.uni.edu/~jacobson web site and link to from
          the http://www.cns.uni.edu/~jacobson/c022.html page.

      d.  all of the above.