To prepare for the laboratory sections on September 8 and 9, you will need to complete the following tasks.
On the nike server there is a file called blankpage.html. Use Fetch to connect to nike using your username and password. If you are unsure how to use Fetch, review the documentation. You will be in your own directory folder. The folder that contains your directory folder contains folders for all the other students as well as a directory named cs111. You can navigate to these other folders by selecting users in the menu at the top of the Fetch window. Click on the cs111 folder. Now click on the folder named download. You should be able to find a file called blankpage.html. Download this file by dragging it to your desktop.
Now startup Symantec Cafe project manager. If you are not sure how to do this, read the documentation for editing files in Cafe. Open the blankpage.html file. Edit it to contain the header with your name. E.g. Georgia Dome would have the header "Georgia Dome's New Web Page". Edit the body of the page to say "This is now Georgia Dome's web page!", except use your name instead. Don't worry about creating a magnificent homepage right now. We will do that in lab! Save your edited file as index.html.
Upload your edited file into your public_html folder in your directory on nike. After you do this, you should be able to jump to your new page by clicking on your name in the CS111 Class List page.
On your home page you will be asked to include several different format types. You can find these by searching the web for pages that have similar items and using "view document source" to find out how they are implemented on the web. Because searching the web can take some time, you should do this before you come to lab. On your home page you will be asked to include:
1. At least three different styles of text (e.g. different sizes, bold face, italic, etc).
2. At least three links to the web ("My favorite links").
3. At least one of the following:
a) A table of vertically aligned elements, with at least two columns.
b) An image that serves as a link.
c) A bullet (small filled-in circle) beside a piece of text.
Search the web for sites that contain examples of these. Save the address of the site and the piece of html source for accomplishing the task. (You can write these to a text file and save it to a floppy to bring with you to lab).
Find the Wellesley Computer Science Department page from the CWIS. Look at the faculty home pages to find the answers to the following questions:
1) Which faculty member has a black belt in Aikido?
2) Who works with "slivers"?
3) Which faculty member enjoys "meditating"?
4) Who has a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University?
Use one of the search engines (e.g. Altavista, webcrawler or others ) to find out the answers to the following questions:
1) Who was Theodore Nelson?
2) What system did he create that is important for the world-wide-web?
3) When did he create it?
Create a text file containing the answers to these questions and the addresses of the links in which you found the information.
Name your textfile with your username follwed by a .pl1 (for pre-lab1). E.g. Georgia Dome's assignment would be gdome.pl1. Upload it to your subdirectory of the lab1 subdirectory of the CS111 drop folder. For more information about how to do this, see the information about using Nike. If you still can't get it to work, bring your file on a floppy to lab.
You are now ready to start the lab!