CS 60, Fall 2009
Assignment 0

Due: Friday, October 2, 9:00 pm
Worth: 50 homework points

1. If you do not already have a College of Engineering user account, then sign up here now. Hopefully you are signing up well before the deadline, as your account will not be ready to use immediately. When it is ready, verify you can access it, and change your password as instructed!
2. Visit the CSIL lab (Harold Frank Hall 1138), and log on to one of the machines there. Explore the desktop, and find a tool to get direct command line access. Try some Linux commands.
3. Then connect to CSIL remotely. Download and install PuTTY, or SecureCRT (see the Resources page for links) or another secure shell program on your own computer (or use a computer at IC). Then verify that you can log in to your CSIL account through the secure shell - use host csil.cs.ucsb.edu and protocol ssh2.
4. Create a directory structure for your CS 60 files, including a subdirectory to hold your assignments, and use chmod to insure that only you have read, write, and execute permissions in this subdirectory.

   For example:   mkdir ~/cs60   cd ~/cs60   mkdir homework   chmod 700 homework Any subdirectories you later create inside ~/cs60/homework/ also will be private.

5. Use cp to save a copy of ~cs60/hw0/student.c-skeleton in your assignment 0 directory as student.c, edit it as follows, compile it and execute it:
   • Revise the comment at the top to include your name, and the current date. (This instruction applies to all programs you write for CS 60, even though we may not always remind you, and it is a habit you should adopt anyway.)
   • Replace the four string literals so the program writes four lines in order:
     1. your engineering account username - no leading or trailing spaces on any line
     2. your first name - just one word - no initials, nickname in parens, or any other data
     3. your last name - also just one word - official surname for grading purposes
     4. your complete e-mail address - whatever e-mail you regularly check
   • Compile and execute the program at CSIL. The results are written to a file called student.info - you should examine the results before turning them in.
   • Here are the contents of the instructor's version (yours should match):
     mikec
     Michael
     Costanzo
     mikec@cs.ucsb.edu
6. Turn in student.c and student.info from your assignment 0 directory with this command:
   
   turnin hw0@cs60 student.c student.info
   Late projects will not be accepted, nor will we accept your assignments by e-mail or other delivery means. One purpose of this assignment is to get you accustomed to using turnin.

Updated 9/10/09 by C. Michael Costanzo