Accessing Course Software
Your personal Bowdoin username and password provide access to the
software for this course. In the iMac lab, the following
steps will connect you:
1. Select the menu item Go -> Connect to Server
and type afp://collaboration.bowdoin.edu
2. Enter your personal Bowdoin login (e-mail) Name
and Password.
3. A new icon called Computer Science will appear
on the desktop.
4. Double-click the folder Computer Science -> csci107
The following folders are particularly useful for
completing this and other assignments in this course.
csci107 -> Users -> <your
username> is a folder in which you can save work from week
to week during the semester.
csci107 -> Invitation contains the lab software for
many exercises in this course.
csci107 -> Drop Box is the place where you can submit
an electronic copy of your completed work when you finish an
assignment.
csci107 -> Lectures is a folder where copies of
PowerPoint lecture notes will be kept during the semester, for your
use.
Drag a copy of the folder csci107 -> Invitation to
your desktop, and then close the folder
csci107.
Part 2 - Creating a Glossary (Lab Experience 1)
Open the folder csci107 -> Invitation that you copied to the
desktop; you will be working with this folder for the rest of
the lab.
Double-click on the (multi-colored) icon Invitation
(OSX). The following menu should appear:
The button Glossary is used for this
assignment. When you select it, a page will appear that
allows you to keep a glossary of terms and their definitions as you
learn them during the semester. Try entering the terms
"Computer science" and "Algorithm" into your glossary, along with
their definitions that we discussed in class and the pages in your
text where they are introduced.
When you are finished with this exercise, you can save
your glossary on the desktop (give it the file name <your
username>.glo). Finally, you can drag a copy of this
file into the csci107 -> Users -> <your
username> folder, thus saving it for later use during the
semester.
Once you are finished in the lab, be sure to drag the
csci107 icon to the Trash - this step disconnects you from the
server and prevents someone else (who uses this iMac later in the day)
from accessing files in your personal folder by mistake.
Part 5 (additional information) - Accessing Course Assignments and
Software on the Web
To access the course syllabus and assignments on-line, open a Web
browser and type the URL
www.bowdoin.edu/~ltoma. Now select the link CS107 -
Introduction to Computers, which leads you to the
syllabus. Select Asst 1 in the right hand column to see
this assignment.
If you have a computer in your room, and wish to download
the course software to that computer, use Explorer or Netscape and
follow these steps:
1. Go to the Web site
http://www.brookscole.com/cgi-brookscole/course_products_bc.pl?fid=M18&discipline_number=6
2. Scroll down this page and select our textbook
(An Invitation to Computer Science - 2nd edition), and then
select
Lab Files.
3. Enter the username "sgcpp" and password
"ken".
4. You may download the course software for either
a PC (lab_software_pc-unix.zip)
or a Macintosh (mac_lab_software.sit)
from this page.