Chapter 0: Unpacking the Box

Getting Started

Make accounts

Open a browser and go here:– https://itaccounts.iu.edu/– Select Create more IU computing accounts– Login and View your accounts

Do you see Mercury created? – If necessary*:

select create more accounts and create Mercury

*all incoming students should already be set up with a mercury account

Search: for Help

Office applications have help– A Menu – A question mark– Pressing the F1

Search: for Files

Select Search from Start menu– Types

Pictures, Music, or Video Documents (Word processing, Spreadsheet) All files and folders Printers, computers, or people

Search: for Files

File searching– File name

example.doc, example.xls, example.html Name + . + Extension

– Extension pairs a file to an application Documents – doc Spreadsheets – xls Web page - html

– A word or phrase in the file

Search: for Files

File Organization– Folders contain files– Names are important

Search for characteristics– When was it modified?– What size is it?

Search: for Internet information

Use more than one word– Bonds

Baseball player or Financial instruments– Bonds returns 173 million results– Bonds AND baseball returns 12.6 million results– Bonds AND Finance returns 50.1 million results

– Bush President or Plant

– Bush returns 600 million results– Bush AND Plant returns 34 million results– Bush AND President returns 362 million results

Search engines implicitly include ‘AND’

Search: for Internet information

Narrow search with advanced usage– “President site:indiana.edu”

Using site:indiana.edu limits results to a web-site Returns President Herbert – 180,000 results Just “President” – 2 billion results

– “Bass –fish” The minus excludes fish from results Rather than bassmaster.com, bassplayer.com

Search: for Internet information

Try Google Suggest– http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en

– As you type, suggested search phrases will appear Try Google Groups

– http://groups.google.com– Search for Indiana University

Try Wikipedia– http://www.wikipedia.org– Search for Indiana University

What is the difference in search results?

Remote storage: Oncourse

OnCourse resource folder for A110– Login http://oncourse.iu.edu– Click Resources– With My Workspace Resourses

Under Actions, click Add For Add Item Type, select Empty Folder For Title, use A110

What There is To Do:

1. Create network accounts

2. Search for help, files, and information

3. Learn the importance of file extensions

4. Prepare a simple web page

5. Create an Oncourse folder

6. Explore web folders

7. Learn to use SSH and SFTP

8. Put your web page on the World Wide Web

A simple web page

Prepare a simple web page– Right-click on Desktop– With Menu,

Select New Text Document Open the document and type:

– John’s website (replace “John” with your name)– Close the document, save it when asked.– Open the document again. Nothing new.

– Select Start Settings Control Panel Click Appearance and Themes Category Select Folder Options, then View tab Uncheck Hide extensions for known file types

A simple web page, cont’d.

Right Click Text Document again– Select: Rename – Change .txt to .html

Click (open) New Text Document.html Does your web page appear?

A simple web page, cont’d.

Close your browser Right Click the html document again

– Select: Open With Notepad– Type <b> in front of your name– Save the file and close Notepad

Click the html document Is your name bold?

A simple web page, cont’d.

Close your browser Right click html file

– Select: Open With Notepad– Hit Enter key 5 times, then type <i>– Type the title of your favorite movie– Save the file, ctrl + s is one way– Close Notepad and Click html file

Where does the italicized title appear?

A simple web page, cont’d.

Close the browser Open html file with Notepad (Right Click) Type </b> after your name Save the file and close Notepad Click the html file Is your movie title bold?

HyperText Markup Language (html)

You Markup HTML documents– <b>Your Name</b>– <i>Your Movie</i>

Basic anatomy– Markup name in arrow brackets to apply– Arrow brackets with a forward slash to close– <html> apply html between tags </html>

Markup means you annotate text

HyperText Markup Language (html)

A Hyperlink is a part of what we call “HyperText”– See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext– URI Uniform Resource Identifier– Close browser & open html file with Notepad– Before <b> type: <a href=“http://www.iu.edu”>– After </b> type: </a> – Save the file, close Notepad, and Click file

Is your name underlined in blue? – Then click your Hyperlink

Oncourse resources

Upload your file to OnCourse A110 folder– Login to OnCourse and select Resources– Click Add for A110 folder– Select Browse for file– Click to highlight your file, then select Open– Click Add

Do you see your file in the Resources?

WebDav

Open Internet Explorer– Select: File Open– Click Open as Web Folder, then Type:– https://oncourse.iu.edu/dav/~user/– Click OK if “username” (above) is your username– Login

See your file?– Now you can drag and drop files

Remote storage: Mercury

Access your Mercury account– Select Start Menu, then:

Programs Utilities Secure Shell Client– Click Quick Connect– For Host Name: mercury.uits.indiana.edu– For User Name: your user id– Click Connect

Press the number for “bash” (if asked), then Enter. (You are picking a “shell” environment in which to operate).– Does the screen go gray and log you off?

Remote storage: Mercury, cont’d.

Login to Mercury again– Click Quick Connect

Host name: mercury.uits.indiana.edu– At the $ prompt, type spinweb, then Enter– Select the folder icon with blue bubbles

The icon is located under Window menu

Do you see a www folder?– Double click www folder

See your changes

Open a browser and go to:– http://mypage.iu.edu/~username/home-template.html– Do you see your name?

Right Click html file on Desktop– Rename home.html

With SSH Secure File Transfer– In left window, drag home.html and drop in right window

With Browser, go to:– http://mypage.iu.edu/~username/– What do you see?