CS 102 - Scientific Computer Applications

Semester: Fall 2008

• Syllabus
• Spreadsheet lab test, Wednesday, 10/08/08
• Database lab test, Wednesday, 11/12/08
• Final exam, Wednesday, 11/17/08, 5:30-7:30pm, HH 543

» Intro to UNIX accounts, student web page creation, word processing

» Student web page creation, word processing

» Spreadsheets

» Databases

» Presentations

» Intro to UNIX and Simple web page enhancements w/ JavaScript

List of assignments (UPDATED: 12/02/08)

• In Windows XP open My Computer
• Click Tools → Map Network Drive
  • In the Folder box, type \\cslab\s0xxxxxx, where s0xxxxxx is you student ID
  • Click on Reconnect at logon
  • Click on Connect using a different user name. Type in your student ID again. For password, use your hawkmail password. Click Ok.
• Click Finish

• In Linux, using IceWM → Konqueror (file manager), create a public_html folder inside your home directory and an index.html file inside that folder.
• OR from a shell (Terminal or command line):
  • Adjust permissions for home directory (~), create ~/public_html and make publicly readable

       chmod 711 ~
       mkdir public_html
       chmod 711 public_html

• Create ~/public_html/index.html and make publicly readable

       chmod 644 index.html

• Your home page URL is now (for example)

       http://rockhopper.monmouth.edu/~s0456789

• If you have mapped your rockhopper home directory to drive Z: in Windows XP, you can create your html files in Windows using MS FrontPage and save them to Z:\public_html.