The Maclab regularly hosts minicourses covering a wide range of topics. For help using one of our Apple machines, please visit Macintosh Help.
NOTE: To use the Linux Machines in the Maclab, you must have a CS Account. You can get a CS Account here.
Macintosh Intro
Here is a summary of the most basic things you'll need to know to use a Macintosh. To learn more advanced things, we encourage you to experiment.
Email Basics
Email (short for electronic mail) is the most popular services provided by Networking Services & Information Technology (NSIT). Email is a convenient, quick, and reliable way to communicate with other people using your computer. Email is relatively portable; you can access your messages through the campus network, at home using a modem, at other universities and research sites, even from your hotel room while you are on the road. Email offers you the immediacy of a telephone conversation while providing you with a written record of your exchange. And it lets you send messages across the world just as easily as you would send them across campus.
Eudora: Email for Macintosh and Windows
Electronic mail, or email, is one of the most popular services that Networking Services & Information Technology (NSIT) offers. Email is a service that allows you to communicate by computers with friends and colleagues across the campus and around the world. It is increasingly used for everything from informal conversation to scholarly communication, research, and collaboration. Eudora is a program that allows you to read, send, and manage your electronic mail with a user-friendly interface.
Mozilla : World Wide Web Browser for Macintosh and Windows
The World Wide Web (WWW) is an information system which allows you to view and retrieve documents from computers all over the Internet. The Web consists of
documents, in many formats, which have been linked together by their authors at various institutions. Many documents contain "hypertext" -- selected words or graphics that act as links to other documents: you can click on the hypertext to jump to a new document, or you can continue exploring the current one. The active words or graphics are identified by visual cues like colors and/or underlining. Mozilla Firefox is a friendly, graphical interface for exploring the World Wide Web. With Firefox you can discover, retrieve, and display text, graphics, sounds, and other data from all over the Internet.
SFTP : Transferring Files on the NSIT Server Cluster
You can transfer files between the NSIT Server Cluster and other computers on the Internet by using the sftp (Secure File Transfer Protocol) utility. This program, which also exists on many other machines on campus and across the Internet, also makes it possible for people on other computers to transfer files to you.
DrScheme Tutorial
DrScheme is an interactive, integrated, graphical programming environment for the Scheme, MzScheme, and MrEd programming languages for Windows, Mac OS X and Unix. It boasts a number of help features like highlighting for syntax or runtime errors and can be enhanced through the use of plugins.
CodeWarrior TutorialCodeWarrior is an
Integrated Development Environment used for programming a variety of languages, particularly C++. This tutorial covers the basics of projects, compiling, debugging, and other properties of the software.
C++ Resource Page
This is a quick tutorial covering the usage of g++, related basic Unix commands, and how to hand in your homework remotely via SFTP and SCP.
Introduction to Unix I & II
The purpose of this tutorial is to provide you with an overview of the services offered on UNIX-like systems and especially the GNU/Linux operated CS Network. Another primary goal is to provide you with many references to documentation that we have found especially useful for learning. The tutorial is termed UNIX I and II, simply because beginner's seem to understand that name better and because GNU/Linux is definiately a UNIX-like operating system.
Basic Unix - Table of Contents
If you are just starting with UNIX, you should probably begin by reading the "UNIX: Getting Your Feet Wet" document. If you're already using UNIX, or know the information in the "UNIX: Getting Your Feet Wet" document, this "Basic Unix" document includes a lot of further information.
Basics of Using Lynx
Lynx is a non-graphical "client program" for the World Wide Web which is available on the Academic Server Cluster (quads, ellis, kimbark, and woodlawn). Lynx is full-featured text browser and is capable of processing forms and providing password authentication.
A full listing is available DocuSpace.
