UCI ICS 1C, Homework 1

By 12 August, you and all members of your team are expected to be able to do all the things outlined below. We will do the formal check-off late Wednesday and early Monday, 7 and 12 August.

The first thing to do is to read this entire assignment before beginning work on any part of the parts given below.

Basic skills you will need on the Macintosh:

World-Wide Web via Netscape

You should be able to handle (and understand) the nine picture-buttons along the top of the Netscape window, as well as the following features accessible through Netscape's menus.

• File: Concentrate on New Web Browser, Open Location, Save As;
• Edit: Find... and Find Again;
• View: everything;
• Go: everything;
• Bookmarks: everything, with special attention to building your own collection of bookmarks. You may wish to begin with choices such as the following:
  • http://www.ics.uci.edu/~vitus/ics1c/
  • http://www.uci.edu/
  • http://www.summer.uci.edu/~summer/
  • http://www.oac.uci.edu/
  • http://www.oac.uci.edu/computing/
  • http://www.w3.org/
  • http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/
  • http://www.yahoo.com/
  • http://www.yahoo.com/education/universities/
  • http://phwww.cwis.uci.edu/cgi-bin/phupdate
  • http://phwww.cwis.uci.edu/cgi-bin/phwww
• Options: Concentrate on Show Toolbar, Show Location, Show Directory Buttons, Auto Load Images;
• Window: You need to use the Bookmarks window to manipulate your own collection of bookmarks:
  • Organize your bookmarks in folders which you create.
  • Move bookmarks between folders,
  • Give bookmarks and bookmark folders reasonable, descriptive names.
  • Save your bookmark collection in a file on your floppy disk and use Netscape to view the contents of that file.
  • Import bookmarks and delete unwanted ones.
• Help: Handbook is worth exploring a bit.

The most important things here are

1. to become familiar with the various options,
2. to start building your own personal bookmark list, and
3. to be able to use the Open Location fluently.

NOTE: You must position the mouse inside type-in windows such as Open Location and Find. You can click the mouse or use the arrows to reposition the cursor within the window, but (beware) the Macintosh delete key deletes to the left of where the cursor is within the window. So to edit strings in type-in windows, one typically must use a button click or arrow keys to position the cursor to the left of where the insertion is to be made or to the right of a desired deletion.)

Preserving and Restoring your Netscape Bookmarks

Save your bookmarks to a file on a floppy disk and then use Netscape to view that file. Next, remove all bookmarks from the currently running copy of Netscape, exit Netscape, restart it, and import your bookmarks from the file in which you saved them on your floppy disk.

Fetch

You should know how to transfer files both ways between the Macintosh and your account on ea.oac.uci.edu or orion.oac.uci.edu You should be familiar with choosing the directory for the source and destination files in both places.

• Open Connection to ea.oac.uci.edu or orion.oac.uci.edu
• Get File (in Text mode) to move files from ea.oac.uci.edu or orion.oac.uci.edu to the Macintosh.
• Put File (in Text mode) to move files from the Macintosh to ea.oac.uci.edu or orion.oac.uci.edu.
• Close Connection

NCSA Telnet

You should be able to connect and login to ea.oac.uci.edu or orion.oac.uci.edu

Editing Text Files

For this class, Simple Text is the basic text editor on the Macintosh.

Basic skills you will need on ea.oac.uci.edu or orion.oac.uci.edu:

E-mail with Pine: (Here's where you know you need to work with your fellow team members.)

• Compose and send new e-mail messages.
• Read, reply to, forward, and refile ("Save") e-mail messages you receive.
• Export an e-mail message you receive to the file system (i.e., copy it to a file on ea.oac.uci.edu or orion.oac.uci.edu.)
• Include into an e-mail message you send the contents of a file read in from the file system (i.e., a file on ea.oac.uci.edu or orion.oac.uci.edu) using Pine's "Read File" function.
• Create and update an e-mail address book of the names an e-mail addresses of those with whom you are likely to correspond (e.g., members of your ICS 1C team).

File and directory operations:

• ls (list a directory),
• mv (move/rename a file or directory)
• cp (copy a file)
• rm (remove/delete a file)
• create and edit -- pico is the recommended editor for class use on ea.oac.uci.edu or orion.oac.uci.edu.