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Assignment 00 - DUE Friday, February 1st
Reading Assignment:
Unix Tutorial
Emacs Tutorial
The Syllabus
Astro Lab Rules Document
Introduction
This is a quick assignment designed to make sure you can log onto a computer, open a Unix terminal, use some basic commands, and create a file with Emacs. Emacs is useful because of its highlighting functions which work with IDL to help spot bugs. Also Emacs is designed to work with coding as opposed to other text editors like Notepad, which can corrupt your IDL procedure files.
Part 1
Open the terminal program, and in your home directory, create a directory called "idl_decal", or something similar. Inside idl_decal, create a directory called "procedures", and another called "plots". This is where you will keep your programming assignments for this class.
Part 2
In the terminal, cd to the folder called "public_html" in your home directory. In the folder, open (create) a file in Emacs called, "index.html". Make a simple bio page. If you've never used HTML before, just copy the text shown below into the file and save it:
<html>
<head>
<title>My Name Here Bio Page</title>
</head>
<body>
Write Bio Here!
</body>
</html>
HINTS:
If you can't figure out what to do, make sure you look at the Lecture_00 PDF and the Unix and Emacs Tutorials (the reading assignments)!!
Update: Paul Higgins - January 15, 2007 - UG Astro, Department of Astronomy, University of California at Berkeley