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 Windows-95? Windows-NT? stand-alone workstations? workstations served by a file server? etc.)
3. How do students start Visual C++ at your institution? How do students invoke a web browser at your institution? (For the convenience of your students, we recommend that you create desktop shortcuts for each of these applications.)
4. 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.
5. 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.)
6. How is a computing session terminated at your institution? (e.g., must they log out, turn the machine off? etc.)
7. Which of the four projects do you wish them to do as homework when they have completed the lab exercise?

The exercise also pretty much assumes that you are using an operating system with the Windows-95 interface (i.e., Windows-95, or Windows-NT).

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