Question 1

Deadline	Friday, September 15, 11:59pm
Name on Marmoset	Q1
To Submit	`goose.bin`

Goose Byte Extraction

Download the image file below (goose.jpg) and determine the byte at location 0x2410 in the file. Submit a file containing this single byte, and nothing else, to Marmoset.

Mother Canada goose and goslings — Mother Canada goose (Branta canadensis) and goslings. Photo by Jacob W. Frank, Yellowstone National Park

Clarifications

The first byte in the file is at location 0, the second is at location 1, etc.
The file you submit should only contain one byte. You can check the number of bytes in a file with the command: wc --bytes file

Hints

This question is meant to expose you to the idea of working with files at a binary level. There are a lot of ways to solve this question. Here are some suggestions:

Write a program in your favourite programming language that reads the bytes in the file and writes out the correct byte.
Use a hex editor, a program that can view and edit the bytes in a file (usually in hexadecimal form, hence the name).
Use Linux command line tools. For example, the xxd command lets you view the bytes in a file in hexadecimal.

Usually it is not appropriate to look up ways to solve an assignment question online, but for this question, we encourage you to do research as needed!