CS 101 Laboratory Session 01

The first laboratory session will be used to help acquaint the students with the computing facilities and resources, including introduction to editing and compiling on both MS Windows and Unix platforms.

Lesson Plan

  1. Introduction to the Wintel platform: mouse, keyboard, desktop, start menu.

  2. Logging into Unix host: X-Server and Telnet. Login, password, home directory.

  3. Basic Unix commands: ls, ls -a, ls -l, mkdir, cd, cp, mv, pwd.

  4. Unix programming: emacs editor, saving files, opening files, editing files.

  5. Unix programming: compiling, cc, gcc, CC, g++, command line switches (such as -o).

  6. Remote operations: FTP.

  7. Introduction to the Visual C++ development environment: New console application project, new source code file, compile, link, execute. Saving files and project workspaces.

  8. Lab assignment one: Description of program 1 and discussion. Be sure to use formatting conventions as demonstrated in the text and in class.


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