Class Project

Getting Started

Please do the following setup steps as soon as possible (Saturday 12 April at the latest), to be ready for the real class work.

1. Set up your CS Department computer account.
   
   
   1. Every student at U Chicago should already have a computer account. If you do not know your login id and password, check with NSIT.
      
      
   2. If you do not have one already, get yourself a computer account in the Department of Computer Science. Use your Web browser to sign up online. You will get an account for the CS system with the same login id and password as you have on the NSIT system.
   
   
   
2. Check the online discussion for the class.
   1. Register yourself in the discussion ("Register" button at top right).
   2. Adjust preferences in your profile ("Profile" button at top).
      1. Give yourself a signature.
      2. Set the time zone to "GMT - 6 hours".
   3. Post a note introducing yourself in the "Sound" forum.
   
   
   
3. Set up a public directory to share class work.
   
   
   1. In your home directory on the CS system, there should be a subdirectory named html. If not create it

      mkdir html

      and make it readable by everyone

      chmod a+rx html

      
      
      
   2. Set up a subdirectory of html named CS295_files

      cd html; mkdir CS295_files

      and make it readable by everyone

      chmod a+rx CS295_files

      We will share work on class projects in these directories. The html directory is a great place to create a personal Web page for your work in CS, in a file called index.html. Please do not place any file named index.html in CS295_files or in its subdirectories. Normal Web browsers will then provide a direct view of all the files you have there, and allow others to copy them according to our open project nonrules.

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