Lab Assignment #0: Fun With Shakey

Due by 11:59PM on Wednesday, Jan 20.

Reading Assignment

Read through the text of the following two lab modules.

• Lab 1A: Introduction to Shakey
• Lab 1B: Enhanced Shakey

In-Lab Work

In your first lab this week, you will go through exercises 1 through 4 of Lab 1A and exercise 1 of Lab 1B.

Your AI will take you through the process (described in detail below) for submitting files electronically. For practice, save your solution to exercise 4 of Lab 1A in a file named Newspaper.txt and then submit it electronically.

Lab Assignment

For homework, complete the following exercises. The filename to use for each exercise is given in parentheses. You must use this filename when saving and submitting your work!

1. (Shopping.txt) Lab 1A, Exercise 5.
2. (Bowling.txt) Lab 1A, Exercise 6.
3. (Farming.txt) Lab 1B, Exercise 2.
4. (Mountain.txt) Lab 1B, Exercise 3.

Submitting Your Programs

You will submit your work by electronic mail, as described in the Assignments page. You will send each of the four files in one (or more) e-mail message(s) to the A201 class account. Your AI will walk you through this process during lab the first week, and again during lab the second week (for those students who either missed the first lab or are still having trouble with the procedure.)

Essentially, you will use the copy and paste facilities provided by the NT operating system to create a file containing the program text from the Shakey application. Then you will mail this file, as an attachment, using the mailer in your web browser.

• In the Shakey applet, select "ALL" from the "View" menu, and then highlight the entire text of the program. Enter Ctrl+C, that is, hold down the control key and press the letter c. The computer makes a copy of the selected text in memory.
• To bring up the notepad, select "Start", "Programs", "Utilities", "Accessories", "Notepad". You can either paste using the menu, or enter Ctrl+V.
• Type two forward slashes // followed by your name on the first line. (If you'd like a printout of your work, select "Print" from the "File" menu.)
• Select "Save as" from the "File" menu, and save the program to a file on the a: drive. Your AI will show you how to navigate the file system to find the correct location. Make sure that you use the exact filename specified above!

• Now follow the directions in the assignments page to hand the file(s) in. For this lab, the subject for your submission messages would be lab0. Note that there should not be any space between lab and 0 (a zero, not an uppercase Oh).