Creating Interactive Internet Websites

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Creating Interactive Internet Websites

• EE 2305 Lab 1

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Overview of Lab

• Labs are for two hours, once per week
• Location Room 202 J.
• Lab Textbook Castro, PERL CGI for the World
  Wide Web, Second Edition. Do not use the First
  Edition
• Please be on time each week

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Overview, Continued

• For the first half of the semester, we will be
  doing some of the Thread A exercises from the
  Lecture Text, so bring your Lecture Text each
  week

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Computer Lab Access

• Room 202 J will be available by magnetic card key
  after installation is completed, except two hours
  per week maintenance. You will have an ENGR
  (School of Engineering) account.
• At the end of the semester, you will move your
  files to your POST account if you do not plan to
  stay in Engineering. (POST is the name of the
  general computer for Dedman, Cox, etc. All SMU
  students have POST accounts.)

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Lab Grading

• Lab Grade is 30 of overall course grade.
• 50 weekly exercises and quizzes. Submitted web
  items in lab will mostly be submitted via the
  web. (Most lecture items will be on floppy
  disks.)
• 50 Term Project (See syllabus)

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Term Project

• Should first be approved by lab instructor.
• You must have
• Home Page introducing your company
• All least two pages of different product
  categories with links to product specs
• Check-out page with customer and credit card
  info gathering. See Syllabus.

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Do not use Web-Creation Software on Your Term
Project!

• If you do, you will be penalized one letter grade
  in the entire course
• You must learn HTML
• It is easy, but you must do it

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Whats for TodayFirst, sign on to a computer

• Use any computer in Room 202 J except
  instructors
• Get your account name and temporary password from
  your Lab Instructor
• Follow instructions on the screen. Enter the
  login name, password, and domain name. The
  domain is SEAS-S.
• Tab (not enter) between these entries

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Setting Up Your E-mail Account

• Locate the TELNET icon on computer screen, or run
  telnet homer.engr.smu.edu
• Double (left mouse button) click on icon
• Single click on Connect
• Single click Remote Sys.
• Enter Host name hyper, quick, rapid, blaze,
  turbo, swift, homer, marge, agile, or speed
• Enter Port telnet
• Enter Term Type vt100

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Setting Up Your Account

• You will be asked for your login account name.
  This is your permanent account name in the ENGR
  computer system
• You will be asked for your password. If this is
  a new ENGR account, use the temporary password
  provided by your Instructor. Passwords are case
  sensitive you may not substitute caps for lower
  case or lower case for caps

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Password, Continued

• Immediately after you sign-on, you should change
  your password to one that only you know.
• At the prompt, enter passwd and follow
  instructions. Note passwd, not password

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Who are you on the Internet?

• E-mail address specifics
• Your account name part
• jsmith
• (Up to 8 characters, lower case)
• Your host part
• engr.smu.edu
• Your full e-mail address
• jsmith_at_engr.smu.edu

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Change Your Password

• Once you have successfully logged into the ENGR
  system, you must change your password to a
  permanent password
• Proper selection is important
• Something you can remember. Nobody can recover
  it if you forget it
• 8 characters, both upper and lower case
• Mixture of letters and numerals
• Not a word in English, not a birthdate
• Write it down in a secret place

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To change your password

• Changing your password
• passwd lthit entergt
• 8 characters, letters and numbers
• upper and lower case
• not in dictionary
• hackers use list of names words and dates,
  forward and backward

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Final Secrecy Reminder

• You can give out your computer name
• You can give out your user ID (user name)
• You must not give out your secret password
• Why not? a hacker could destroy your files and/or
  use your account to send nasty mail to students,
  faculty, President Bush, etc.

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The pine e-mail program

• After you get the SEAS computer system prompt ()
  and have changed your password, enter pine
• pine allows you to compose and send, receive and
  file messages, and also to maintain your own
  private directory of e-mail addresses

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Running Pine Email Program

• ? HELP - Get help using Pine
• C COMPOSE - Compose and send a message
• I FOLDER INDEX - View messages, current folder
• L FOLDER LIST - Select a folder to view
• A ADDRESS BOOK - Update address book
• Q QUIT - Exit the Pine program
• Other commands at bottom of screen
• Type I to check your mail (index)
• Type C to compose and send a message
• Type Q to quit pine

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Quitting Pine and Logging Out

• Type Q to quit pine
• Do you really want to quit pine y/n?
• Answer y for yes
• exit or logout
• Do not leave a terminal while logged in (bad
  things could happen)
• Reread the last bullet
• Reread two bullets back
• You are still logged into Windows

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wwwsetup

• The ENGR system has a UNIX macro named wwwsetup.
• This handy macro establishes a public directory
  in your cyberspace named public_html
• It also sets an empty file named index.html in
  your public directory
• It sets correct permissions for all files in your
  public directory.
• At the prompt, type wwwsetup and enter.

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Notepad

• In Windows (not on the Internet),
• Click on START
• Click on RUN
• Type in notepad
• Enter
• Type a sentence
• Save it as a\test or as c\test

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WS_FTP

• Get familiar with WS_FTP. If you have a floppy
  disk, move a file from the floppy to your public
  file
• If you dont have a floppy, use the hard drive
• Verify that the file is in your cyberspace.
• Move the file back where it came from
• Delete it in both places, and verify that it is
  gone.

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If time permits

• Spend time getting comfortable with the Netscape
  Browser
• Although MS Internet Explorer is available on the
  computers in the labs, you are required to use
  Netscape. There are significant differences, and
  your Website will be graded using Netscape
• Netscape is FREE. If you have your own computer,
  be sure it has Netscape

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Logging out of Windows

• After you logout of your account, you must also
  logout of Windows
• Strange as it seems, hit the Start key
• Hit u as in Shut Down
• Select Login under a different account and
  Enter
• Now you are completely out of the system
• As a rule, you have to logout as many times as
  you put in account passwords to get in

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See you next week. Remember to bring your
Lecture Text (Knuckles).