CS4624 Lab 1 - Orientation

There are many activities to be done in the Laboratory:

• Check you name on the Roll. If not present, and you want to take this course, explain that in a written note to the instructor, indicating reasons that you should be preferred over others. Give your phone number, student ID, printed name, year, major(s), minor(s), expected graduation date, drop/add form, and explanation.
• Answer the Pre-Test as best as you can and turn in the opscan answer sheet to the instructor, with no questions unanswered.
• Use the QuickTake camera to take a photo of the person sitting next to you, and if 8 photos have been taken, upload them into a new directory on the PowerBook. IMMEDIATELY after uploading, edit the names of each of the files to have the last name of the person whose photo was taken. Redo any photos that do not come out well. When you have a diskette, crop the image, store it on the diskette as a TIFF file, and keep it for use on (in this form or as a compressed JPEG image) your WWW home page later.
• Use Netscape or Mosaic to follow along and read crucial information about CS4984, starting at http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~mm/ but looking especially at the Syllabus, Outline, and Calendar.
• Become oriented with the various tools on the "desktop" on the lab machines. During the semester you will use: Acrobat, AuthorWare, HyperCard, Netscape, Sound Machine, Ulaw and other routines.
• Copy down the lab hours so you can return as needed.
• Begin to work with MOOs and the clients for them. The MOO supporting our class, EIEIOmoo, will be accessible starting 1/22 at port 7777 on ei.cs.vt.edu.
• Select projects and form groups and set up a group home page on WWW, notifying the instructor of its address and filling it in with some information about your project plans. Use the CSNotes routines set up by Neill Kipp and Will Schmidt in connection with the BEV History Project. Upon creation of a group, the software creates a list of Virginia Tech PIDs (the authorized editors). Anyone on that list may edit the page (including the list of authorized editors itself) for which that list is applicable. The list of people who are editors can be arbitrarily long, although page-locking has not yet been implemented, so some coordination is needed.