AGRI002 Lecture Four, Week Beginning Monday February 7, 2005

ANNOUNCEMENTS & ASSIGNMENTS:

Questions?

Attendance forms.

First Exam: Two weeks away (Feb 22, 24).  Be on time or lose points!  Old exams are here.

Monday February 21 Presidents Day, UVM Closed.  Monday lab students go to a different lab just for this week.  Also available are two labs that Dr. Leonard teaches: Wednesday (2/23) afternoon 2:30-4:30 Waterman 113Q, and Friday (2/25) morning 9-11 in 005 Morrill.

Tuesday March 1 Lecture and Labs meet even though Town Meeting Day.  Either go to lecture and lab Tuesday or another day during that week.

Labs: Bring two IBM-formatted HD diskettes to lab this week.

Preview of Lab Next Two Weeks:
This week: File and folder management on diskettes and FTP.
Next Week: Unix command line: hostname, who, Email: pine, signature file, editing using pico, reading in text files & attaching files.

        PC to Zoo Connection.        Forward your email.

        Purge Deleted messages in UVMWebmail

READING: PREPARE FOR THE EXAM: Review previous reading, lecture notes, video (Riding the Bear, available at BH Library media center), lab notes and lab assignments.

LECTURE:

Review: Pass around System Unit & Board

Information Technology in perspective: Time Line 2

Types of data

Graphing Exercise #1

Video: How Bill Gates became the richest person.