Conestoga's Computer Environment

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Conestoga's Computer Environment

• David Turton
• Conestoga College
• Institute of Technology Advanced Learning
• http//www.conestogac.on.ca/dturton
• Doon 1B43 x3610

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The Computers

• Windows XP Pro
• Office 2003 Pro, Nero (CD burner), Textpad
  (editor) on all desktops
• 1/3 replaced every year
• Paid by tech fee
• 2.4-3.4Ghz Pentium 4, 512MB memory, 40-80GB
  drives, CD-RW, diskette, 100Mb/s NIC, USB 2.0
• Deep Freeze
• Changes to C drive go away on reboot
• Never save anything to C

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The Software (eg 1C9)(Kept current by Tech fee)

• ArgoUML - Open Source 
• BlueJ - Open Source 
• Decision Analysis v 2.0 - Open Source 
• FrontPage 2003 - Microsoft 
• JAVA 2 SDK v1.4.2 - Sun Microsystems 
• Java Studio Creator - Sun Microsystems 
• Macola - Exact Software 
• MSDN Library .NET 2003 - Microsoft 
• MySQL - Open Source 
• Nero - Ahead 
• NUnit v2.1 - Open Source 
• Office 2003 - Microsoft 
• Oracle 9i - Oracle 
• PHIT - Prentice Hall - Pearson 
• PHP v4.3.3 - Open Source 
• Project 2002 - Microsoft 
• Project 2003 - Microsoft 

• Reader v6.0 - Adobe 
• SAM 2003 V2.5 - Course Technology 
• SQL Client Tools - Microsoft 
• SQL Desktop Engine (MSDE) - Microsoft 
• SSH Secure Shell v3.2 - SSH Communications 
• Textpad Editor 4.7.3 - Helios Software Solutions 
• Tomcat v4.0 - Apache 
• VisiBroker - Borland 
• Visio 2003 - Microsoft 
• Visual Age for Java v4.0 - IBM 
• Visual Studio .NET 2003 - Microsoft 
• Visual Studio v6.0 - Microsoft 
• WSAD 5.1 - IBM 
• Other labs have other applications
• 2A201 (tech) AutoCAD, SolidWorks

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The Network

• Novell NetWare operating system
• Sign-on codes (aka userid)
• David Turton
• dturton-cc
• Need "context" in directory tree (student)
• dturton-cc.stu
• Note don't use context for web-mail remote
  access
• Password
• Initially set to your student id
• Change it when you start each term
• Never tell others your student number
• It's the key to your posted marks

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Sign-On _at_ Another Campus

• Your userid is defined in the students' container
  at the Doon campus
• Sign on at Waterloo campus
• dturton-cc.stu.wloo.cc
• Need to override other site appending its campus
  to your userid
• .dturton-cc.stu.doon.cc

Leading dot says you're providing the whole path
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Printers

• Located in every lab
• Automatically mapped at log-on
• No need to identify select just print
• Limits
• Number of pages per print job
• Number of copies per print job
• No limit to printing in a term yet

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The G drive

• This is your "home" folder
• Only network administrator has access to it
• Not student technicians, help desk
• My Documents is mapped to it
• Same space, regardless of PC or campus
• So homework accessible anywhere
• 100MB of space
• Consider a USB flash drive for more
• Right-click G and choose salvage
• To recover deleted files old copies of revised
  files
• Deleted folders
• Tech Support may be able to recover them

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Accessing G from home

• College site,
• "students" menu
• Userid no context
• dturton-cc
• Password
• Same as network
• 1 file _at_ a time
• Upload to server
• Download from server
• Opening a file
• Downloads to temp folder
• Changes saved to copy, not to G
• Save As to a known location
• Then upload

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The K or Scratch drive

• Drive for files from teachers
• Teachers have read/write access
• Students have read-only access
• Click Start button and select Run
• Enter busscr (for business scratch)
• Should now have a K drive on Windows Explorer
• Organisation
• Usually full time/program/year/course

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Web-Based E-mail

• Got to college site, students menu
• Inside college network (plain text)
  http//cs23.conestogac.on.ca/
• Outside college network (encrypted)
  https//cs23.conestogac.on.ca/
• Sign-on userid, without context
• dturton-cc
• Not dturton-cc.stu
• Password same as network?

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Warning USB Flash Drives

• Cheap, lots of space, interactive (unlike CD)
• 128MB 30 256MB 50 512MB 80 1GB 130
• May get "drive not formatted"
• After a couple of years' use
• You've just lost everything
• Use USB as "master"
• All file changes to USB files
• Regularly copy to folder on home PC G

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Microsoft Windows XP

• David Turton
• Conestoga College
• Institute of Technology Advanced Learning
• http//www.conestogac.on.ca/dturton
• Doon 1B43 x3610

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The Mouse

• Clicking
• Left button
• Single select object, position text pointer
• Double execute, select word in text
• Triple select paragraph in text
• Right button
• Properties/actions of selected object

• Navigation
• Mouse pointer
• Point or select
• Drag Drop (move/re-arrange)
• Execute or activate

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Windows XP Desktop
G drive your home directory on the LAN
available from any machine in the college,
including other campuses
K (scratch) drive for some course files,
handouts, etc.
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Desktop, Start Bar, Standard Window
Menu bar
Window sizing Minz/maxz/restore/close
Tool bar
Title bar
One line at a time
Desktop icons double-click to execute
One page at a time
thumb
Vertical/horizontal scroll bars
System tray (running services)
Active applications
Task Bar
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Moving and Sizing a Window

• Move a window
• Click and drag title bar
• Size a window
• Click and drag a side or corner

maximize (to full-screen)
minimize (to task bar)
close (terminate)
restore down (to windowed)
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Drop-Down Menus
View note underscore Alt underscored letter
executes selection
Unavailable options (grayed-out)
Sub-menu
Hot keys (short-cuts)
Selected options Dot select one Check select
any
Sub-menu available
Ellipses dialogue box (pop-up) available
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Dialogue (pop-up) boxes
Whats this? (explain next thing clicked)
Close window/appl
Tabs (organised by category)
Option or radio buttons (choose only one of set)
Scrollable text input box
Browse-to-select files/folders
Command buttons
Check-boxes (choose zero or more)
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Accessing Help

• Application context help
• F1 while application is active
• or Help on menu bar
• Windows help
• Help Support from the Start menu
• Field help or application Wizard
• click ? Button, then the field

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Windows Help
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Help Index
This is organised by topic, or keywords entered
by the programmer. Start typing and itll follow
you through the topics index. Click on one to
see it or the titles under that topic.
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Search for a word/phrase
Put phrase in quotes to get an exact match
otherwise, it looks for individual words Note
Search within previous results can refine this
to 6 results containing ics and the word home
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Disk Organisation analogy
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Files Folders Windows Explorer
Notice the folder structure here, its by
course and topic, then further grouped by
assignments, lectures and tests. No structure is
totally wrong if you understand it Not having a
structure is always wrong! Dont store data
files with the program code if you update the
program, it may delete the folder your data was
in its like storing insurance claim documents
in the procedures manual new manual, lose all
prior claim information.
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Files Folders My Computer
After you select a drive, My Computer looks like
the right side of Windows Explorer
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Searching Files/Folders

• To get into search
• Start menu
• Windows Explorer
• Right-click drive/folder
• Entry on File menu
• Icon on tool bar

File name or file content?
Search sub-folders?
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Creating a New folderright-click in target
folders content pane or click on new in File
menu while target folder selected
New folders name highlighted, ready to change
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Moving/Copying Files Folders (Left-Click)

• Left-Click
• Highlight file/folder to be moved/copied
• drag to target folder, and drop (release)
• copy
• default to different drive
• hold Ctrl to copy to same drive
• move
• default for same drive
• hold Shift to move to different drive

• Right Click
• Will ask whether to move, copy or create a
  shortcut
• Clipboard
• Highlight files/folders
• Hold shift or ctrl for several
• CtrlA to select all
• Copy to clipboard
• Right-click select copy
• or CtrlC
• Cut to clipboard
• Right-click select cut
• or CtrlX
• Paste to target folder
• Right-click select paste
• or CtrlV inside folder

Copy symbol (by mouse pointer)
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Copying a File by drag drop (Left Click) (note
the )
To reverse a bad move select "Edit" "Undo"
Target highlights
Click, drag drop
This folder is open, so this is its contents
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Right-Click drag-and-drop itll ask you which
you want copy, move, short-cut
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Formatting a Diskette
Just empty file table (quick), or reformat whole
surface?
Right-click on A drive in My Computer or Windows
Explorer. Note must not be the active (open)
drive. Watch read/write tab
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Shortcuts

• Alt-F4 Exit active window
• Alt-Tab Go to last window
• Alt-Esc Scroll through windows
• F5 Refresh (most Windows screens)
• Drag file to desktop Double-click to open file
• PrintScrn Copy desktop to clipboard
• Alt-PrintScrn Copy active window to clipboard
• Ctrl-C Copy highlighted object
• Ctrl-V Paste
• Ctrl-X Cut
• Ctrl-S Save (most applications)
• Ctrl-P Print (most applications)

clipboard
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Windows Button Shortcuts

• Win-E Open Windows Explorer
• Win-R Open Run dialog box
• Win-U Utility window (magnifier etc.)
• Win-D Show desktop
• Win-F Search (find)
• Win-V Speech recognition
• Win-L Lock Windows
• Win-M Minimise current Window
• Win-Break Show System Properties
• Win-F1 Windows Help

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Getting to Microsoft Word(or any other
application)
Note desktop's like a folder right-click drag
drop to create a shortcut to your application
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Capturing a screen image

• Windows has a facility called the clipboard
• used to copy text or images within or between
  applications
• to capture a screen image, use the key(s)
• PrintScrn
• to capture the whole desktop view
• AltPrintScrn
• to capture just the active window
• paste the image in your target application using
  the clipboard icon, CtrlV or Edit/Paste

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Pasting into Microsoft Word
Paste icon