I'm majoring in Computer Science, and this is my first year. I figured I should take the 'Introduction to Computer Science' course. I didn't think it would be so fucking easy. Its stupid how easy it is. Here is the lab we had to do today.
You don't have to read it all, just lightly skimming it is enough to see how retarded it is.
Last day to add/drop classes was yesterday. I'm stuck in this piece of shit class till January. At least I get to leave the lab after I finish the project (2 minutes). At least it is going to be an easy A+
You don't have to read it all, just lightly skimming it is enough to see how retarded it is.
Last day to add/drop classes was yesterday. I'm stuck in this piece of shit class till January. At least I get to leave the lab after I finish the project (2 minutes). At least it is going to be an easy A+
CS1000
File Management Lab Experience
Goals
By the end of this lab experience, you should have achieved the following goals: an understanding of where files are stored when they are saved
Terms
By the end of this lab experience you should be familiar with the following terms: <li>network drive <li>local drive <li>select <li>open <li>click <li>double click <li>right click <li>contiguous select <li>non-contiguous select
Instructions
File Management Lab Experience
Goals
By the end of this lab experience, you should have achieved the following goals: an understanding of where files are stored when they are saved
Terms
By the end of this lab experience you should be familiar with the following terms: <li>network drive <li>local drive <li>select <li>open <li>click <li>double click <li>right click <li>contiguous select <li>non-contiguous select
Instructions
- Selecting
- Using the left mouse button click ONCE on an icon on the desktop. You have now selected this icon. Select a different icon. When you select a different icon whatever you had selected before is deselected.
- Click the mouse above an icon and then holding the mouse button down move the mouse to create a box around 3 icons. Release the mouse and you will see that all 3 icons are selected. Drag them around to see that you can move them. Now right click anywhere on the desk top and choose Arrange Icons By and then Auto Arrange. The icons should be neatly arranged on your desk top again.
- Select an icon in the upper left hand corner of the desktop. While holding the shift key down click on an icon near the bottom of the desktop. Both icons you clicked and all those between them are now selected. This and the previous method of multi selection are contiguous selects, that is, all objects between the first and the last object are also selected.
- Select an icon in the upper left hand corner of the desktop. While holding the control key, down click on an icon near the bottom of the desktop. Both icons you clicked but not those between them are now selected. This method of multi selection is a non-contiguous select, that is, objects between the first and the last object need not be selected.
- Double click on My Computer. Double clicking opens folders and files.
- There are three buttons in the upper right hand corner of the window.
- Click on the first button. This is the minimize button. The window disappears BUT it is not closed. There is a button on the task bar (the bar along the bottom of the desktop) that corresponds to the window you just minimized. Click the button on the task bar to restore the window.
- Click on the second button. This is the maximize/restore button. When a window is not filling the entire area available to it you can maximize it by clicking this button. When a window is maximized the second button changes to one that will restore the window to its original size.
- Click on the third button. This is the close button. It closes the window. When used on a program window it usually exits the program.
- Right click on My Computer then choose Open from the menu. This is another way of opening folders and files. In general, right clicking on objects will give you a menu of appropriate options for that object.
- Make sure the window is not maximized. Point to the lower right hand corner of the window. A double headed arrow should appear, drag the corner up and to the left to make the window quite small. This is a resize corner. When the window is small scroll bars should appear on the right side and bottom of the window. Click on the arrows at either end of the scroll bars. Click to one side then the other of the bar. Drag the bar.
- Inside the My Computer window double click on the P: drive icon (Your P:/ drive may be labeled personal on ulfiles or datafiles/username). Minimize the window. Double click on My Computer. Restore the minimized window. When working on future lab experiences it is often helpful to resize your windows so that you can read and do work at the same time. This prevents you from having to shuffle back and forth. Right click on the taskbar at the bottom of the desktop and choose either Tile Windows Horizontally or Tile Windows Vertically.
Now close the My Computer window. - Files & Folders
- Right click on Start then choose Explore. A new window appears. Click on My Computer. You now have another way of manipulating files on My Computer.
- You can see all the drives that are available to you. Notice that the icon for some of the drives have a wire attached to the bottom of them. This indicates that these are network drives. In particular, your P: (personal) and W: (webspace) drives are network drives. The hardware that supports network drives is not in the machine in front of you. In fact, in this case it is on the 5th floor in a room in D section. The drives without the wire are local drives. C: and D: are local drives. The hardware for the local drives are in the machine in front of you. If there are network problems the local drives will not be affected but the network drives may be unavailable.
- Click in the "+" on the P drive. This will show you if you have any folders created. Click on the icon next to the "+" for the P drive. This opens the P: drive space available to you in the right side of this window. Right click in the P: drive window then choose New - Folder. Type CS1000. You have just created a folder called CS1000. Create some more folders in your P:\ drive, name them Graphics, Word, Presentations, SpreadSheets, MysteryApp, LOGO and Scratch.
- Drag these newly created folders into CS1000. Do you remember how to select all of them at the same time? What happened? They became sub folders for CS1000. CS1000 now has a '+' sign in front of it and when you click it you will see all the sub folders.
- Create a folder called Junk inside the CS1000 folder on your P:\ drive. Now drag it onto the desktop (not into the desktop folder). You should see it on your desktop. This created a copy of Junk, but it did not remove it from the P:\ drive.
- What is a folder?
- A folder is a file in which the addresses of other files are stored. Thus a user need not know how or where a file is actually stored on a particular disk, you only to know where to look it up. For convenience we say a file is in a particular folder even though it might be anywhere on the disk.
- Where were the folders being dragged?
When the new folders were dragged onto CS1000, you were not actually moving them. They remained on the P: drive. We only inserted the addresses of the folders into the CS1000 folder. When you dragged JUNK onto the desktop, the folder had to be created on the C:\ drive; that is, you actually created a new folder. The old folder still exists on the P:\ drive and therefore is still listed in the P: drive folder.
Thus, any time you move a file or folder from one drive to another a copy is made. Changes made to the copy do not affect the original and visa versa. This also explains the role of a shortcut. A shortcut is a copy of a file's or folder's address.
- Right drag Junk onto the desktop. When you right drag a menu appears allowing you to choose which you would like to do: move, copy, or create a shortcut. If you choose to move a file or folder from one drive to another it will no longer be on the drive it came from. If you copy the file or folder from one folder to another on the same drive there will be two copies of the file. If you create a shortcut to another disk the shortcut will only work when that disk is available to the machine.
On the lab machines when you save or put something on the desktop it is copied into a folder called desktop in your P: drive so that you will not lose it when you log out. - Drag both Junk folders to the recycle bin on the desktop. Now double click the recycling bin. The bin is empty!
Normally, when you drag a file from any drive other than the C:\ drive (the hard drive of the machine you logged into) it will be deleted rather than moved into the recycle bin but when you drag a file on the desktop or anywhere else on the C:\ drive to the recycle bin it is moved to the bin. However, on the lab system all of your files are actually stored on the network drive even those that appear to be on the desktop. Thus all files dragged to the recycling bin, when you are on one of the lab machines, will be deleted rather than moved to the recycling bin.
