Deadline: Saturday 29.10. at 18:00 (6 pm)

This is an individual exercise.  Return your learning diaries by e-mail to pervila at [the department's mail system] by the deadline given above.

Write a "learning diary" about the Chapter 1 of the lectures. The basic material can be found in the textbook of Tanenbaum & van Steen; you can consider the lecture slides  as the list of contents.

Length: about 2-4 pages (notice: essential is quality, not quantity).

Instructions for writing a learning diariy are available in a separate file: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/pervila/distsys-09f/learning-diary-instructions.txt. Note: copying text verbatim and not marking it as a quotation is strongly forbidden.

Essential issues (this time):

1. What was the essential content? Organize your text using the typical "abstract" organization: environment, problem / goal, solution principles, evaluation. What was a novice student expected to learn?
2. What did you personally learn? What was new / surprising / interesting / useful for you?
3. What intriguing questions arose / remained unanswered? For an introductory piece, there should be plenty of these remaining. Make a list of things you intend to learn later!

The feedback given after reading the reading diaries from 2009: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/pervila/distsys-09f/home1-feedback.txt

Before returning the text, run it through a spell chcker.

FAQ:

• Which languages are acceptable for the diary?

You can return your diary written in English, Finnish, or Swedish.