CSE 100 Assignment 0

I Am Here

The first four parts of this assignment must be completed before Tuesday’s Lab section. The remainder of the assignment must be completed before Wednesday’s Lecture. You are allowed to get help from UWired personnel or a friend.

Do you have a computer account at UW known as a UWNetID? If yes, go to #2; if no, proceed as follows: Go to the Odegaard Undergraduate Library or the Suzzalo Library and locate the computer labs. At OGUL the lab is on the second floor; at SUZZ it is inside the main entrance to the left. You can either ask a Lab Consultant working at the desk to help you set up your UWNetID, or you can do so yourself. At OGUL, there are three computers by the pillar used for setting up new accounts (as you’re facing the desk, they are to your left and somewhat behind you). At SUZZ there is a sign (rimmed in green) on the computer used to set up a new account.

To set up a new account you need to know your last name (pretty easy, so far, no?), birth date, student ID number and your STAR Private Access Code. If you know that information, then follow the instructions, using the mouse to "click" on the start button. If at any point you get into trouble, a Lab Consultant can help you.

Proceed to a PC at one of the labs at OUGL or SUZZ and login. (Note, there are Macintoshes around, but you should use a PC for the following explanation. The computers are have a sign on top saying what they are.) To login is to tell the computer who you are. Your password is matched to verify your identity. (Don’t forget your password, but if you do, you can go to the same computer you used to get your UWNetID in the first place, and you can follow the procedure for getting a new one.)

Do you know what the Pine Email program is on Dante? If yes, go to #4; if no, proceed as follows: [A Lab Consultant can help you if you have any problems with any part of this process.] Telnet to Dante, which should be the computer on which your UWNetID account is stored. Teleneting to Dante is an operation that can be found by clicking on the Start button at the lower left hand corner of the screen; click on "Telnet to Dante". You will be prompted for your login name and password again. (If you are using a new account there may be announcements about your new account that you should read.) After the announcements have been shown, there is a menu of options. Type E (for email) to access the Pine Email program. When the Pine program starts for the first time for your account, there is a welcoming message and a request that you be "counted as a Pine user." It is helpful if you type "return" to be counted, but it is not required. The next thing you will see is the Pine menu. Typing "c" in the main menu allows you to compose a message. Other operations that you will need are given at the bottom of the screen. (Notice that commands like ^x are read "control x" and require that you hold down the "ctrl" key at the lower left of the keyboard while typing "x". The "^" character symbolizes the key "ctrl" here, and in this situation is not the caret character, uppercase "6".)

Using the Pine Email Program, send an email message to snyder@cs.washington.edu [If the mail "bounces," that is, it either refuses to send the mail or it is returned undelivered, check the spelling – lots of people mess up "snyder" and "washington".] The Subject line of your email message to "snyder" should be "Sign" and in the body of the message, i.e. the message itself, please give your name, birthday and astrological sign.

While you are using Pine, locate your "sent mail" folder, and find the mail you just sent. Determine how many characters long the message to "snyder" is. The number of characters is shown in parentheses. Forward this message to your TAs, Brian Bannon, bbannon@u.washington.edu, and Ken Yasuhara, yasuhara@cs.washington.edu telling them how many characters the message is. Add a note saying how much you are looking forward to having them as TAs in this class. ("Kissing up" to your TA is always a good idea!)

Send an email message to the class mailing list, cse100@cs.washington.edu. The Subject line should be Movie and the body should give (a) a famous quotation from a movie, (b) the name of the movie the quote is from, and (c) [this is optional] a quip to follow the quote. For example, "What light from yonder window breaks?" is from Shakespeare In Love, and the quip is, "The one there by the curtains." [Obviously, the humor can be really lame.]

Do you know the Netscape web browser? If yes, go to #7; if no, proceed as follows: [A Lab Consultant can help you if you have any problems with any part of this process.] Find the Netscape Navigator program by clicking on the Start button at the lower left corner of your window, and double click on Navigator. After a few moments, the Netscape window will be loaded, showing an initial web page, which should be the UW home page (as requested in step #8). To go to a new web page, you type the address of the web page (called a URL for universal resource locator) in the field towards the top of the window labeled "Go To" or "Location". To go to a site, type in the URL (check your typing because the browser is very fussy that you get the URL exactly right), and hit "enter" (the biggest key). To "follow" a link – links are shown in highlighted color, usually blue – just move the cursor over the link (the cursor will change to a little hand), and click the mouse button.

Go to the UW’s main web page, whose URL is: http://www.washington.edu. You may already be there. Follow the "Almost Live" link and then the "UW Images" link. Look at the Red Square images from the day before by following the link with yesterday’s date. The "player" for the movie works just like a VCR with a start, pause and a stop. Repeat the movie. Find something interesting in the movie. If the day you are watching for this assignment is especially boring, you can use one of the six archived movies. (When you are next in Red Square, find the camera – it’s on the west side of Kane Hall – and wave.)

Go to CSE100’s home page, whose URL is: http://www.cs.washington.edu/education /courses/cse100/CurrentQtr/. (URLs are typed as one long string of characters without spaces, but when they are too long to fit on one line, they must be broken in two as shown here. Ignore the new line and type it for Netscape as one long character string.) First, marvel at how aesthetic and inviting these pages look, (thanks to the assistance of UWired’s Catalyst page). Next, "bookmark" this page. Finally, note when the TA’s office hours are.

"Click up" is a slang term for going to a web site. Click up http://www.hamsterdance.com. What is this? Click on the Restore/Maximize button – it is the middle button of the three at the upper right corner of the window. The window will shrink somewhat. Resize the window using the resizer control at the lower right corner of the window, making it smaller. What happens to the hamsters? Do they get "cut off" when the window shrinks?

Send email to bbannon@u.washington.edu and (a) describe what you found in step #8, (b) tell the times from step #9, and (c) describe what was displayed in step #10. A couple of sentences each is sufficient.