Getting Started in TCS 301

GETTING STARTED in TCS 301
updated 2008 Jan 28


.	In the first section of this course these are the following things for you to do. attend class on a regular basis regularly read the material on the class webpage so that you may understand what the professor will discuss in class each day respond to questions in class based upon having read the material in the course outline take the important points from each lecture and consider how to work them in to your Storefront Project Team Web Site Project WTGR


.	Getting started in the very beginning using the space on your learn account make an index.html page for TCS301 under which you will have other pages and content so that the professor has a place to see your work example http://learn.senecac.on.ca/~studentname/TCS301/ it is very important that you name this file EXACTLY index.html Index.html or index.htm will not work create an assignment.htm page for your first assignment "Web Report Assignment" example http://learn.senecac.on.ca/~studentname/TCS301/assignment.htm follow the steps below WTGR

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bring a diskette, or USB jumpdrive with you to class so that if you are working on a webpage, you have a place to "keep" your files

1. Using FTP, make a subdirectory for TCS301
(the screen capture shows it for another class (MRK410), but you type in TCS301 instead)

this is a screen capture (2008) of where to get FTP on the machines in the labs

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this is a screen capture (2006) of where to get FTP on the machines in the labs

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this is a screen capture (2005) of where to get FTP on the machines in the labs

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- put this TCS301 directory inside the public directory, so this means you click on public, like the screen capture

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Once you are inside the public_html directory, then
click on the button "MkDir" in FTP and you can make a new directory off of the public_html one
When you do this, type in TCS301 in upper case letters
(do not type MRK410 - that was the old class)

so after you make the directory you should have this
this is the place where you will put all your files for the TCS301 course

2. Using Netscape composer 4.8 make a simple "splash" page - name this page "index.html"

From Netscape Composer,
click on "file",
then "new",
then "blank page"

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the page will appear like this
then just type in your content

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when you finish making the page, click on file, a menu will drop down and you can save the page

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save the file with the name "index.html"
- it is very VERY important you spell exactly this index.html

3. Once you have made this index page, FTP the page inside the subdirectory of TCS301
- FTP an associated images or pictures also to the subdirectory
4. Assignment 1
- read the description of the assignment
- make a page for the assignment, such as "assignment1.htm"
5. FTP the assignment up to the TCS301 directory
6. link the assignment page to the index page
- this requires opening the index.html page
- editing the page to add the link
- save the page
- re-FTP the index page back up to the site

	- put this TCS301 directory inside the public directory, so this means you click on public, like the screen capture
.
	Once you are inside the public_html directory, then click on the button "MkDir" in FTP and you can make a new directory off of the public_html one When you do this, type in TCS301 in upper case letters (do not type MRK410 - that was the old class)

	so after you make the directory you should have this this is the place where you will put all your files for the TCS301 course

	From Netscape Composer, click on "file", then "new", then "blank page"
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	the page will appear like this then just type in your content
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	when you finish making the page, click on file, a menu will drop down and you can save the page
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	save the file with the name "index.html" - it is very VERY important you spell exactly this index.html