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NEW: Your assignment is to do a New York Times style book review of Ramachandran's Phantoms in the Brain. If you're confused about what constitutes a book review, see the articles linked to by the summary immediately below.

General suggestions for writing your essays, given your work so far. Available in PDF.

Ross Messing's Turn-in instructions

To turn in work, put it in a directory and type

~rmessing/courses/cs240/TURN_IN dir

Where dir is the directory where you put the work.

This will run a script that gives me a timestamped copy of your work (meaning that we know if you handed it in after the deadline).

Please make sure the file names don't have spaces.

This should work on both the grad and undergrad networks.

In order to make a directory, from the unix prompt type mkdir dirname where dirname is the name of the directory you want to make. To move a file into a directory you've just made, type cp filename dirname

If you're having trouble getting files onto the CS system from your home windows machine, one solution is to email them to your CS account (should be yourUserName@cs.rochester.edu).

Another solution is to set up a webmail account somewhere (Gmail, yahoo, e.t.c.), and email your paper to your webmail account, then access it from one of the CS department computers, and save the attachment to your home directory. This will be easiest for folks who know how to use web browsers, but are new to UNIX. Once you have the file in your home directory, follow the directions above to make a directory and copy the file there.

Your feedback will arrive in your CS email accounts. If you don't know how to use your CS email account, the program pine is relatively user friendly. If you don't want to use your CS email account, you can create a file in your home directory named ".forward" and have it's contents be the email address you want email sent to your CS address to be forwarded to.

For example, if my email address were ross@notCS.rochester.edu, and I wanted to automatically have all of my CS mail forwarded there, immediately after logging in, I'd type nano .forward and hit enter. This would bring me to a simple text editor called nano, editing a file in my home directory named .forward. I would then type the email address I wanted to forward to, in this case ross@notCS.rochester.edu

Then I'd save the file and quit by hitting control-x (holding control and hitting x), answering yes (by hitting y) to the question it asks, then hitting enter to confirm the filename .forward

Note that if you forward your email, you will not be able to email your essay to your CS account as a way of putting it on the CS system, since any email to your CS account will bounce right back to the address in ".forward".

If you run into any problems with your essays, either handing them in or writing them, feel free to email me. I'll respond within a day or two, and usually quicker than that.


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