Computer Science 110
The Art & Science of Computer Graphics

When you arrive in lab, we will work on getting you logged in and getting your accounts set up. Your username and password are specific to the computers in Kendade 307. They are independent of your campus-wide computer accounts.

Once logged in, you will be presented with your Macintosh desktop for your Computer Science lab account. The files in your account are stored on a department server, so it does not matter which computer in the lab you use.

The Mac environment may be a bit unfamiliar for those who are primarily Windows users, but it is quite intuitive and you should be able to get around fairly quickly. Please do not hesitate to ask me, the teaching assistants, or your classmates for help if you are not sure how to proceed or if you have trouble with anything as you work on this lab.

Using the Firefox web browser, which you can launch using the round blue and orange icon in the "Dock" at the bottom of your desktop, follow these steps to set up your wiki page.

1. Navigate to http://mhcwiki.teresco.org/in your browser. This should bring you to the main page of the class wiki. You will be asked for a username and password. The username and password can be found on the hard copy of this document.
2. In the upper right hand corner of the wiki page, you will see a link labeled "log in/create account". Follow this link and create an account for yourself. This can be anything, but please use a name that clearly identifies you, such as your real name or the username you used to log into the systems in the first place.
3. Next, create a page with your (real) name. To do this, type your name in the search box on the left (I'd type in "Jim Teresco"). This will bring up a page that gives you the option to create your page.
4. To create your page, add the text you wish to display to the edit box. Adding plain text will work, but you will want to format it nicely, add sections, images, and so on. To do this, the text you type should be "marked up" to indicate your desired formatting, using the markup language described at the end of this document.

   Your page should include:

   • A paragraph telling everyone a bit about yourself.
   • A description of your favorite restaurant in your home town and anything else interesting that you'd like to share about your home town.
   • At least one "section".
   • At least one image. This can be of you, of your favorite restaurant, or something else you download from the web. Note: when uploading your image, please prefix the name with your name and make sure you upload it in PNG format. For example, if I wanted to upload an image "Map.png", I would first rename it to "TerescoMap.png" before uploading. If your image is in a format other than PNG, open it in Preview (by double clicking on the image) and choose "Save As" from the "File" menu to save it in PNG format.
5. Add yourself to the "Artists" category and the "Spring 2010 Artists" category. Feel free to create and add yourself to other categories, such as your class year, your major, your favorite baseball team, or whatever else you'd like.
6. When you have completed all of this and your wiki page is complete, send me an e-mail at jteresco AT mtholyoke.edu stating that it is ready for me to look at, so you can get credit.

This section is a quick reference for our wiki and the wiki markup language you will use to develop your wiki pages. You might want to keep this sheet handy until you get used to the wiki markup language.

Our wiki uses the same software (called MediaWiki) that is used by Wikipedia, so your experience with this will help prepare you to be a contributor to Wikipedia and other similar projects.