Tuesday, February 28, 2012


Quiz #1 is now Mar 12/13, in lab
Only up to what we did last class
Thursday, February 23, 2012

up to section 3 in the book

What will be output of typing
"Ryan".length

Codecademy up to Variables

HW:
make your very first webpage on WinSCP:
What we need:
A special folder (directory) called public_html
Capitalization matters. It is NOT
Public_HtmL
public.html

Inside public_html folder, we will store an html file: hello.html

The file permissions, folder permissions will not be set. We need to change the permissions.

web address (URL):
hostname/~loginname/filename
cs12.cs.qc.cuny.edu/~asth2456/hello.html

Error:
404 -- not found
403 Forbidden

every folder has two folders in it:
. which is yourself
.. which is one level up

command-line, text based user interface
GUI

http://cs12.cs.qc.cuny.edu/~xiuyi/fugu.html

Thursday, February 23, 2012


Administrative matter:
Quiz 1: Mar 6, in lab

webserver
log in to that machine.
WINSCP
credentials:
login: first two letters of last name +
first two letters of your first name +
last 4 digits of your CUNYFirst ID
password: all 8 digits of your CUNYFirst ID

Joshua Waxman
CunyFirst ID: 12345678

login: wajo5678
password: 12345678
hostname: cs12.cs.qc.cuny.edu

HW: log in to the cs12 machine using winscp
Submit a screenshot

data type
integers (5), float (3.14159), string ("Josh")
open source software
openoffice.org
libreoffice.org

Spybot Search & Destroy
www.safer-networking.org/

Thursday, February 16, 2012


To get the files for the Excel book:
prenhall.com/grauer
http://wps.prenhall.com/bp_exploring_excel_2010_comp/

debugging formulas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

formatting is NOT the same as the underlying values

HW: Midlevel

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

lecture notes


Anything that can be done in software can be done in hardware and vice versa.

At w3schools:
HTML Formatting
HTML Fonts
HTML Styles
HTML Links

Read through Ch 2 in New Perspectives, do the lab

Confirm or deny on Codecademy.

Thursday, February 9, 2012

lecture notes


docs.google.com

Alternatives to Office
OpenOffice.org

Google applications
Google Reader - RSS reader

pull paradigm
push paradigm

XML - extensible markup language
RSS feed: would include date and time change, title, material

Google search for "happy cow" vs. happy cow

milk site:happycow.net

"happy * cow"

sign in to CodeAcademy

On w3schools, from HTML elements to HTML paragraphs

ways to make document bigger

point = 1/72"
serif vs. sans serif




Tuesday, February 7, 2012

hw: Learn HTML: Read (and practice!) from “HTML Home” until “HTML Basic” (w3schools)

hw: New Perspectives labs, ch 1

To Do: how to search on Google

Homework Assignment submission

is now possible. I enabled BlackBoard.


* 2012 Spring Term, lab section Mon Wed 7:30 -- 8:20 pm
* 2012 Spring Term, lab section Tue Thu 7:30 -- 8:20 pm
* 2012 Spring Term, lab section Tue Thu 5:30 -- 6:20 pm
If you look there under assignments, you should be able to submit your completed screenshot homework assignment.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

lecture 2

HW:
Take a screenshot
Cmd Shift 4 on a Mac
print screen key on PC

CPU has control unit, ALU (arithmetic / logic unit)

von Neumann architecture

see this link for the picture


Trilobite

Navigating Windows, Part I

The root folder and file paths