Exercise 0: Information on your background

Your Background

The ability of the students are changing from one year to the next. As we want to target the course material to your general computer abilities, we have made this short questinary. Your answers allow us to change the presentation and exercises on the fly to better fits the average student on the course. Therefore help yourself to a larger gain from the course by answering the following questions.

Which operating system(s) do you feel you know well? (Windows, Mac, Linux, None) Credits: 1/1

How do you rate yourself as a user on a scale from 0-5 covering from no knowledge to very skilled, where 3 is an average user that can manage most, but does not know how to fix the system. 0 1 2 3 4 5 Credits: 1/0

Do you have your own computer? Yes No Credits: 1/0

Do you use your student account on fys (or else where) to more than handling email and brouseing the web? Yes No Credits: 1/0

If yes, then what else? (Text Editing, Data analysis, Programming, Others (not games)) Credits: 1/0

Do you have any experience with programming? Yes No Credits: 1/0

If yes, then which language(s)? Credits: 1/0

Do you have any experience with debuggers? Yes No Credits: 1/0

If yes, then which debugger(s)? Credits: 1/0

Do you know how to use gnuplot? Yes No Credits: 1/0

Do you use another programs (than gnuplot) for data analysis/plotting? Yes No Credits: 1/0

If yes, then which program(s)? Credits: 1/0

Your prefered email address -- not nessarely the same as the one on the Absalon list. Credits: 1/0

As some of you have quit interesting userid, could you please provide your real name for easier identification. Credits: 1/0

Go on to the first exercise