Updated: 2017-01-20 01:57 EST
Welcome to CST8207 GNU/Linux Operating Systems I. You can find out more about your Instructor through links on the Course Home Page.
To avoid falling behind in the course, many of the listed activities here must be completed before you attend your first CST8207 lecture or laboratory class this week.
Monday January 9 8am to 1pm is a Level 1 Orientation Day. Regular classes for Level 1 students are replaced with orientation activities and help clinics up until 1pm.
Your CST program orientation is 8am to 10am Monday January 9 in room T119.
Regular Level 1 classes resume at 1pm on Monday January 9. Check your timetable for class start times and locations.
You are enrolled in a mobile program of study.
Bring your working laptop (mobile device) to all your lectures and your lab periods, including your first lecture and lab period this week.
If for whatever reason you miss your regular scheduled two-hour laboratory period this week, you should attend any other lab period that fits your schedule. See the Course Timetable to find a CST8207 lab period that fits your schedule this week. There are five lab periods: 011, 012, 013, 014, and 015.
There will be no lecture class on Monday January 9 this week due to Orientation activities. Attend orientation to get started.
You must attend at least one lab period this week to learn how to do some of the key activities listed below.
Make sure you are registered in CST8207 and you have your Algonquin account userid that is eight characters, starting with the first four letters of your last name. (This is the same userid that you use to log in to the Blackboard system.)
You must be registered in CST8207 and have this account userid before you can attend a lab period and log in to the Course Linux Server.
Read the Introduction to the Course, Outline, Timetable, Marks for details on how the course is structured and what is expected of you.
In your Lab period this week, you will practice creating a file on your mobile device and uploading it to the Blackboard CST8207 course, in the CST8207 practice upload area. (This upload procedure is also described under Blackboard Submission upload method at the end of your Assignment #01 HTML in this course.)
Do not upload your first assignment to the practice upload area. The practice upload area is for practice only. It is not marked.
Also in your Lab period this week, you will learn how to log in to the Course Linux Server [CLS] from your mobile device (laptop).
Your special password for the CLS is not the same password that you use for Blackboard! See the Blackboard course announcements to learn the special password you must use.
Once you know your special password, you can also read the login instructions on the Course Linux Server web page.
Watch How Linux is Built
Complete Assignment #01 HTML and upload your plain text file to the correct CST8207 Assignments area on Blackboard before the due date.
Your instructor will show you how to practice uploading files into the practice upload area on Blackboard in your lab period this week.
Do not upload your first assignment to the practice upload area! The practice upload area is for practice only. It is not marked.
Check the due date for each assignment and put a reminder in your agenda, calendar, and digital assistant.
What Windows and Macintosh programs can create a Plain Text file, needed for Assignment #01 HTML?
Students may attend any of the CST8207 lab sections if there is space. If you miss your scheduled lab period, come to one of the other ones. See the timetable here and on the Course Home Page:
Your course work for most of the term will be done by Remote Login to a Course Linux Server (CLS) machine using your Algonquin userid (the same userid that you use for Blackboard) and a special CLS server password (not your Blackboard password) that you must get from your instructor. See the connection information in Course Linux Server and work with your instructor during lab time if you have problems connecting to the server.
Your first assignment does not need access to the Course Linux Server.
For full marks, read the Test Instructions (all the words) before your midterm tests.
Tests take place at 10am in your lecture class, not in your lab period.
Turn on “show file extensions” in your Windows machines, or else you may upload files with incorrect names such as assginment01.txt.txt
!
Never use the sample userid abcd0001
to log in. These are example userids used in the notes that are meant to be replaced with your own login userid. If you try repeatedly to log in to the Course Linux Server from home using a non-existent userid or password, your home IP address will be locked out; see the Course Linux Server notes for help on how to fix this.
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