Due Saturday, Jan 25, before midnight

The goals for this lab assignment are:

Work through the following sections and ask if you have questions!

Start by reading through all of the class web page!

Pay special attention to the Schedule, Academic Integrity, and How to succeed in CS21 sections!

You should get into the habit of checking the class page weekly. The class topics, lab assignments, weekly readings, and announcements will be posted to the class schedule each week.

From the CS homepage please read these important pages:

Our update21 command copies any files your professors want you to have from them to your cs21 directory. It’s a good habit to run update21 each time you log in. If you haven’t run it already, this will create your cs21/labs/00 directory.

Open a terminal window (click the icon) and enter the commands below after the unix prompt (the dollar sign):

If update21 doesn’t work for you, please tell your lab instructor.

Read through our UsingUnix web pages and try the various unix commands. These pages are just to help you get comfortable with the unix command line (there’s nothing you have to write or turn in). Make sure you understand the following commands:

Beginning this week we will start using the text editor in class, so you need to at least know the basics.

All professors teaching this course will use the atom editor.

To practice with atom, open up the atom-practice.py file in your cs21/labs/00 directory and follow the instructions in that file.

Here’s a list of keyboard shortcuts to help you learn the atom text editor. Make sure you at least know how to open a new file, add text, and then save it to the correct directory.

For more practice with editing, and so we can learn a little about you, edit the bio.txt file in your cs21/labs/00 directory:

Note: this file should have a few simple questions in it for you to answer. If you don’t see those questions, make sure you are in the cs21/labs/00 directory (i.e., run the pwd command), and/or run the update21 command to make sure you get the initial file from your professor.

Once you are satisfied with your bio.txt file, hand it in by typing handin21 at the unix prompt.

You may run handin21 as many times as you like. Each time you run it, new versions of your files will be submitted (i.e., any files you’ve made changes to). Running handin21 after you finish a program, after any major changes are made, and at the end of the day (before you log out) is a good habit to get into.

This semester we’ll be using Piazza, an online QandA forum for class discussion, help with labs, clarifications, and announcements that pertain to all sections of cs21. Our Piazza page is https://piazza.com/swarthmore/spring2020/cs21. You should have received an email invitation to join cs21 on Piazza - if not let us know.

For this first lab, just to get comfortable using Piazza, choose at least one part of your bio.txt file above to post on Piazza (non-anonymously). You can include where you are from, something else you are doing at Swarthmore, your entire bio, or whatever you prefer. Add your post to this thread as a "new followup discussion".

Each lab will have a short questionnaire at the end. Please edit the Questions-00.txt file in your cs21/labs/00 directory and answer the questions in that file.

Once you’re done with that, run handin21 again.

If you are done early, you are welcome (but not required) to create your own webpage (now or at any time during the semester). To get started, follow these instructions There are many tutorials on how to make a webpage - the Khan Academy tutorial is very comprehensive.

When you are all done working in the lab, you should log out of the computer you are using. First quit any applications you are running, like the browser and the Terminal. Then click on the logout icon and choose "log out".

If you plan to leave the lab for just a few minutes, and then come right back to work, you do not need to log out. It is, however, a good idea to lock your machine while you are gone. You can lock your screen by clicking on the lock icon.

As part of your Lab 0 grade, each student must visit the office of their lecture professor. If you can come during our official office hours, that is ideal, but you are also welcome to stop by any time we are around. You do not have to have a specific question, you can just drop by to introduce yourself and learn where our offices are. We will have sign in sheets to check you off.

Remember to run handin21 to turn in your lab files! You may run handin21 as many times as you want. Each time it will turn in any new work. We recommend running handin21 after you complete each program or after you complete significant work on any one program.