Foundations

Tom Kelliher, CS 102

Sept. 4, 1998

Announcements:

From last time:

1. Syllabus, survey.

Outline:

1. Choosing passwords.

2. Drives and drive letters.

3. Getting rid of junk.

4. Knowing what's in front of you.

Assignment:

1. Using the ``People Find'' tool at Lycos ( www.lycos.com ), find out where I lived when I lived in Pennsylvania (recall that my middle initial is ``P''). See if you can use People Find to find out information about your family. What do you think about this sort of a service?

2. Visit the Web site terraserver.microsoft.com and see if you can find a satellite photograph of your house. Were you smiling when the picture was taken?

Password Selection

http://phoenix.goucher.edu/password.html --- ``Choosing a Good Password.''

Drives and Drive Letters

1. Floppy drive.

2. Local hard drive(s). Network hard drive(s). Differences between the two.

3. CD-ROM drive. What is ``ROM?''

Removing Files, E-Mail

1. How to remove a file or folder. Selecting several items for removal. For local files, using and not using the recycle bin.

2. Quotas:
   1. What is a quota? Why do we have them? Are there alternatives?

   2. E-mail: warning at 10 MB, limit at 15 MB. What's an ``MB?''

   3. Network drive: quotas coming.

   4. Possible to move e-mail to folder on network drive.

   5. What kind of e-mail/files takes up the most space?

   6. The recycle bin in e-mail. Configuring.

The Parts of a Window

First, an important part of the desktop: the TaskBar. What can it do for me?

1. Title bar.

2. Menu bar. Typical menus.

3. Toolbar. Menu shortcuts. Typical tools, common to most apps.

4. Scroll bars.

5. Status bar.

6. Window controls:
   1. Application control-menu box.

   2. Minimize button.

   3. Window/full screen button.

   4. Close button.

   5. Moving, resizing a window.

7. Two bars specific to MS word: formatting toolbar, ruler.

Things to Know

1. How to insert an e-mail attachment.

2. How to specify what drive a document is saved to.

3. How to select several items.

4. How to delete files, e-mail.

5. What a quota is.

6. Your way around the desktop and windows.