Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:51:14 -0600 (CST)
   From: Mark Jacobson <jacobson@math-cs.cns.uni.edu>
     To: 810-021-02@uni.edu
Subject: Class on Friday in the Wright 112 lab...

Hi Computer Skills and Concepts students,

    The 810:021 class will meet in the Wright 112 lab on Friday,
which is just down the hall from our Wright 105 classroom.

    Check out my web page at:

        http://www.cns.uni.edu/~jacobson

    Follow the link to Spring 2006 classes to get to our class web page,
    or just type the additional file name c021.html, as in:

        http://www.cns.uni.edu/~jacobson/c021.html

    to go directly there.  (Before you bookmark the page).

    The editors we looked at today were Notepad (Windows editor),

                                    and pico (cowboy Unix editor).

    Pico is short for pine composer, and pine was the most popular

                      email program at UNI and at Iowa for quite a
                      few years, before reading email from your
                      web browser became widely available and easy enough
                      to use.

    pico homepage.html   (or nano homepage.html)
    ------------------       ------------------

                this is how you would
                       edit an existing file named homepage.html, or

                       create a brand new empty file named homepage.html
                              if you were starting a new page from scratch.


       nano nano is something Mork on Mork and Mindy TV show used to say,
                    and Mork was an alien from outer space trying to fit
                    into late 1970s American society and pass as regular
                    human.  Robyn Williams, the comedian/actor played Mork.

       Anyway nano or pico is used to invoke the pico editor.
              ----    ----

      The tags you say today will be given to you on a handout on Friday,
      but they are:

          IMG SRC="name of graphics file or URL to a graphics file"

          HR or
          HR NOSHADE          Horizontal Ruler
                              -          -

      The A HREF= anchor tag and the /A to end the hypertext.

      The BODY tag, with the additional attribute specifier for
                    the BGCOLOR= (BackGround COLOR)
                                  -   -      -----

          BODY BGCOLOR="FF00FF"         <----- The COLOR PURPLE

          BODY BGCOLOR="DCDCDC"         <----- The COLOR Light Gray

       To see some other codes that can be used to specify COLORS,
       check out this link.
                            http://www.hypersolutions.org/pages/rgbhex.html

       See you in class on Friday.

       Don't forgot your new account sheet with the user id and password.
       Bring it with you.

       You can change your password on Friday or next week, and then
       not worry about having the sheet with you.  Of course, your
       user id you already know.  Its the same UNI user id you
       already use elsewhere.

       The cowboy.cns.uni.edu computers are named:

           bebop.cns.uni.edu
           faye.cns.uni.edu
           jet.cns.uni.edu
           spike.cns.uni.edu
           julia.cns.uni.edu

       So cowboy.cns.uni.edu is a cluster of FIVE different computers.
       You will login to anyone of those 5 computers on Friday.
       It doesn't matter which one, usually.

       You won't have to use nano or pico editors all the time.
       You may prefer to write HTML using Notepad sometimes.

       Later, we will explore some packages for doing web pages,
       like Dreamweaver or Front Page or even Microsoft Word.

       See you on Friday in the Wright 112 computer lab.  I will put
       a note on the blackboard in Wright 105, in case you forget.

       Mark