Each will involve completing a task that will take about 2 hours of intensive computer work. You won't have time (unless you get productive) to look at your Google/yahoo/whatever Email etc.
In the labs you can use the Kommon Desktop Environment (KDE) to develop programs fairly easily.
Read Me First
The first rule is to leave our computers running! You should never have to reboot
our systems. During your first quarter if you think you need to reboot --
ask the lab assistant or the help desk.
Read Me Next
At the start the teacher will show you how to get started -- take notes.
Logging in
Your should have a blue screen with a box for your "user-name", otherwise
call over your teacher.
In the menu bar, select Session->KDE
Input your user name(this should be the same as your campus EMail id) in the box provided and click the OK button.
You should get a window to input your password. This will be announced in the lab. (It is not secure and you should change it SOON). Click the OK button
Wait for KDE to start up.
Changing your password
Look under the KDE "f" menu/Start for the Settings -> Password item. This should open up a window that lets you input your old password and then a second
dialog box where you input your new password twice.
In a terminal window(remotely or under KDE) you input
passwd your_user_namethen supply you old password and tap return. Then enter your new password twice tapping return each time.
Starting a Browser
Click the icon that shows the world connected to a mouse...
This is the Konqueror browser supplied as part of KDE. It is good enough
for most purposes. You can also find under the 'f'->Internet->Firefox a
highly popular state of the art browser.
Fill in the following location
http://www.csci.csusb.edu/dick/cs201and tap the "Enter" Key to go to the web site for this class.
Once found you should bookmark it for next time.
Logging Out
Close windows.... and right click on the desk top.
Select "Logout ..."
Wait a second and then click the "Logout" button
in the confirmation dialog that pops up.
Now you can leave.
NEVER leave a machine without logging out.
About our Laboratories
We try to maintain world class hardware and software. So we use Linux.
This is the most popular university operating system. It is starting to be
adopted by professionals in large and small companies world wide for the
following reasons:
| Description | Link |
|---|---|
| Welcome to our CSCI Lab | See [ lab01/ ] |
| Developing simple programs | See [ lab02/ ] |
| Straight Forward Programs | See [ lab03/ ] |
| Selections | See [ lab04/ ] |
| Loops | See [ lab05/ ] |
| Strings, Arrays, and Vectors | See [ lab06/ ] |
| Functions | See [ lab07/ ] |
| Objects | See [ lab08/ ] |
| Classes | See [ lab09/ ] |
| UML and Classes | See [ lab10/ ] |