Lab 1
Part 1

Lab 1: Windows, Unix and the Internet

By the end of this lab, you will be able to:

• Navigate Windows NT, opening and closing programs with ease
• Browse the World Wide Web with Netscape
• Log onto a remote computer using telnet
• Send and receive email with pine and Netscape
• Transfer files across a network with FTP

Welcome to the first lab for COS 111: Introduction to Computing! In the next three hours, you�ll learn how to use Windows and Unix to open and close programs, how to check your email, how to browse the web, and how to ftp (transfer) files across a network. At the end, you'll be asked to submit, through email, the text of an email message you've received.

Don�t be discouraged if you seem to know more or less than the other students around you. If you don�t know much about computing, follow the steps in order and feel free to ask a TA for assistance at any time. If, on the other hand, there are exercises which you already know how to do, then skip them and move on. If you've never used a computer before, then find a TA to help you get started and be prepared to spend a little more time this week than you will for future labs.

For now, find an empty computer and follow the next instructions to log onto Windows NT.

Part 1: Introduction (this page)
Part 2: Using Windows NT
Part 3: Netscape and the World Wide Web
Part 4: Telnet and Unix
Part 5: Email with pine and Netscape
Part 6: Transferring files with FTP
Part 7: Submitting your work and logging off