Lab 0: Instructor's Notes

Your students will need to be informed about the following issues before they are able to complete this exercise:

1. How is a computing session initiated at your institution? (e.g., must students turn on the machine? log on? give a password? change their password? etc.)
2. What environment-specific details do they need to know about your institution? (e.g., are they using MacOs? Windows-95? Windows-NT? stand-alone workstations? workstations served by a file server? etc.)
3. Where should students store their work? (e.g., on a file server? on the local hard drive? in a folder on the desktop? on a floppy disk?) If students are to provide their own floppy disks, be sure to alert them to this requirement beforehand.
4. How do students start CodeWarrior at your institution? How do students invoke a web browser at your institution? (For the convenience of your students, we recommend that you create aliases for each of these applications on the desktop.)
5. How do students access the lab manual via their browser? (Bookmarks are one option, entering the URL is another.) You may, if you wish, freely photocopy this first lab exercise to hand out as hard copies to students, if doing this first lab through the browser seems like too much for the first week.
6. Must students do anything special to print hard copies at your institution? (e.g., name the printer, pick up hard copies at a different location, etc.)
7. How is a computing session terminated at your institution? (e.g., must they log out, turn the machine off? etc.)
8. Which of the four projects do you wish them to do as homework when they have completed the lab exercise?

The exercise is written for the Macintosh environment, though many of the details are the same or similar under Windows 95 or Windows NT.

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