This lab assignment should get you used to running update21 and handin21. and give you some practice with Unix and vim.

Start by reading through all of the CS21 homepage. Pay special attention to the Schedule, Academic Integrity and How to succeed in CS21 parts. You should get into the habit of checking this page weekly; the class schedule, lab assignments, weekly readings, and announcements will be posted to the class Schedule weekly.

Go to the CS homepage (http://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/). From there click on the "cs lab help" button and read the Welcome Message, The User Agreement, and The CS Lab Rules pages.

To begin the assignment, open a Terminal window. You do this by clicking on the black square in the bottom toolbar

When the Terminal window opens, you will see the shell prompt which will look something like this:
lemon[~]$

In the above prompt, lemon is the name of the machine you are working on, so this may be different for you if you are working on a different machine.

If you don't have one already, create a cs21 subdirectory in your home directory and set the permissions so that only you can access it. Here is an example of commands to enter to do this and to verify that it worked ('$' is the shell prompt and text after '#' are comments explaining the commands):

  $  cd                 # change current working directory to your home directory 
  $  pwd                # print current working directory
  $  mkdir cs21         # create a new subdirectory named cs21
  $  ls                 # list contents of current working directory (your home directory)
  $  cd cs21            # change current working directory to cs21
  $  pwd                # print current working directory 

Here is some information about the Unix directory structure.

In your cs21 directory run the vim tutorial to learn how to edit files in Unix.

  $  vimtutor           # start the vim tutorial

Just go through the following sections of vimtutor (the other sections cover more obscure features that you will not need to use):

* all of Lesson 1 (moving around, x, i, A, :wq)
* Lesson 2.6 (dd)
* Lesson 2.7 (undo)
* Lesson 3.1 (p) and 3.2 (r)
* Lesson 4.1 (G) and 4.2 (searching)
* Lesson 6.2 (a), 6.3 (R), and 6.4 (y and p)

This tutorial will take about 20-30 minutes.

note: if you added CS21 late, we may not have you in our list of students who can run update21 and handin21. Send me email if you have problems and I'll add you to our list so that these will work for you.

Once you have learned how to use a Unix editor program, run update21 to get the starting directory for lab 0, then cd into that directory:

$ update21             # creates subdirectory 00 in your cs21/labs directory
$ cd                   # cd into your home directory
$ cd cs21/labs/00      # cd into the directory for lab 00
$ pwd                  # check to see that you are in the correct directory
                       # if you are, pwd should list: /home/your_user_name/cs21/labs/00

The lab submision program, handin21, will grab files from your labs/00 directory.

Next, start up vim (or vi) and open a new file named bio.txt and answer these questions:

1. Your name, year, and major(s) or intendend major(s) if known.
2. Tell me about some of your strengths. What are some things that you are good at doing (they don't have to have anything to do with CS)?
3. Tell me a bit about why are you taking CS21.
4. Tell me about any prior CS experience you have.

To start editing the file:

$ vim bio.txt

After you are done editing your bio.txt file, save your changes, exit vim (:wq in escape mode), and enter the ls command to list the file bio.txt. You can also run the cat command on the file to list it's contents to the terminal window:

$ cat bio.txt

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

Here is some information about how to run handin21.

You may run handin21 as many times as you like, and only the most recent submission will be recorded. This is useful if you realize after handing in some programs that you'd like to make a few more changes to them.

After you have submitted your bio.txt file, sign up for a time to come meet with me. The sign-up sheet will be available staring Tuesday afternoon outside my office door (249 Sci Cntr).

Don't forget to attend a Using UNIX session. You can attend any one of these sessions (they are identical):
  Tue, Aug 30, 4-5pm, Sci Center 240
  Wed, Aug 31, 8-9pm, Sci Center 240

When you are done working in the lab, you should log out of the computer you are using. To do this, you can click on the logout icon or click on the XFCE menu 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, but it is a good idea to xlock your machine while you are gone. You can xlock by clicking on the xlock icon , or by running the xlock command at the shell prompt. You should not xlock a machine if you plan to be gone for more than about 10 minutes, and you should not xlock main lab machines during times when classes are held in the lab.

If you can't find a file you created, check to see that you are in the directory you think you are.

• ls: list the contents of your current working directory
• pwd: prints your current working directory (where you are in the file system)
• cd directory_path: moves you into the directory given by directory_path

If a file isn't in the directory you want it in, use the mv command to move it from its current location to a new location in your directory structure: The general form of the mv command is 'mv source destination', where 'source' is the pathname of the file you want to move and 'destination' is the pathname of the file you want to move it to. For example:

  # moves bio.tx from current working directory into my cs21/lab/00 directory
  $ mv bio.txt /home/newhall/cs21/lab/00/bio.txt

  # this does the same thing, '.' means a file with the same name as the source
  $ mv bio.txt /home/newhall/cs21/lab/00/.

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