Math 155B
- Introduction to Computer Graphics – Spring 2018
Instructor: Sam Buss, University of California, San Diego
Project #0 – Verify your computer access.
Goals: Make sure your APM B325 computer lab access works OK.
DUE DATE: Friday, April 5.
What to hand in: When you successfully complete this assignment, you fill out a google docs form as described below, and answer the questions that are included with the assignment. You may in addition post related questions and answers to the piazza bulletin board.
The google form for your answers is at: https://goo.gl/forms/JPC3YOtFo3OmIUen1
If you have problems and cannot resolve them by the due date, you must promptly contact the professor or the TA to discuss the problems.
If you want to work on your home machine or other machine: As in Math 155a, this is OK; see Project 0 of Math 155A for more instructions. Just like in 155A, all projects (after project #0) will be graded on the APM computers, with a TA or Professor Buss. For this, your program must compile in Visual Studio and run on the APM B325 computers.
Logging in: The PC lab for this course is in APM B325. The rooms APM
B337 and B349 (they are the same room!), and B432 are also available. Academic
Computing and Media Services (ACMS) should have already given you the
appropriate user account privileges after you are enrolled in the course. The doors are locked in evenings and
weekends, but a door code can be found at http://acms.ucsd.edu using
the Account Lookup link under Tools.
To keep your files from being automatically deleted store your files in the
networked drive on the lab computers (same name as your user-id). You
should be able to remotely access your files through the Virtual Lab, see
instructions at http://govirtual.ucsd.edu. To be completely sure your files are not
erased when you logout, you might wish to save copies of your work to your
Google drive or other storage. (A few students had problems with files being
lost both last year and the year before!)
FOR PROJECT #0, PLEASE DO THE FOLLOWING STEPS #1 - #5.
1. Verify that your userid and password let you login to the APM B325 systems.
2. Verify that Visual C++ is available, and can compile an old project.
3.
Check how much
free disk space you have available in your networked file storage.
Clean up old files from last quarter, by doing the following:
a. Delete any “Debug” or “Release” folder created by Visual Studio.
b. Delete any “Demo” folders or extra files no longer needed.
c. Delete any large “Data Base” files (file name extension: “.DB”
d. Keep your old source files and solution/project files from 155A in case you want to refer to them during 155B
4.
Verify that after
cleaning up files, you have plenty of free disk space.
5. Fill out the google form at, at https://goo.gl/forms/JPC3YOtFo3OmIUen1, answering the three questions; and letting us know whether you have finished the assignment. If any of your answers are long, please consider emailing Professor Buss with it, or, even better, posting to the piazza.com course bulletin board.
DUE DATE: Friday, April 6. Please email the instructor and TA if you are not able to meet the due date.
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Instructions from ACMS on file storage:
Students will need to save files on the networked link you saw under Computer. They are not able to SSH or sftp to the stored files. All students now have accounts in the UCSD Google domain and can save their files to the cloud. They can also log into the Virtual Lab from a home device and get to the networked drive through there.
Instructions to use the Virtual Lab are at http://govirtual.ucsd.edu