Computer Technology Training Center

Welcome to the CS Lab

We have been developing a number of materials that supplement the excellent texts we use by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., such as UNIX in a Nutshell, Web Design in a Nutshell , Learning Perl, and many others. The materials presented here are used to educate our own students and faculty, as well as other teachers at inservice and professional development programs and our partners in the business community.

Here are some of the materials we currently have online:

UNIX

• The Basics of UNIX - helpful UNIX commands with examples of syntax.
  
  
• Getting Started with vi - learning the basic UNIX editor

• The Basics of HTML - a simple introduction to HTML.
  
  
• Making a First Web Page - how to make a very simple web page.
  
  
• HTML Tables and Formatting Web Pages - how to use tables to format a simple web page.
  
  
• HTML Forms and Dynamic Web Pages - how to HTML Forms with CGI and PHP for dynamic web pages.
  
  
• MySQL and PHP - using a database and enhancements to HTML for interactive and dynamic web pages.
  
  
• Working with Graphics - common file formats and their applications on the web.
  
  
• Using gnuplot to Make Graphs - how to use gnuplot tocreate graphs for use in web pages or research papers.
  
  
• Style Considerations: Server Side Includes and Cascading Style Sheets - web design style considerations using Server Side Includes and Cascading Style Sheets.
  
  
• Gathering Real-Time Data Using Sockets - using real-time communications to collect data from the web through TCP/IP sockets.
  
  
• Java Applets and Javascript - web enhancements through Java and Javascript applications.
  
  
• Sound and Video - The use of sound and video to enhance web applications.
  
  
• The Perl Programming Language - how to program in one of the major languages behind the Internet.

• OpenGL Graphics - a 3D graphing environment for regular programming.
  
  
• POV-Ray Raytracing - how to make realistic graphic images with a free raytracing program.
  
  
• Parallel Computing - using parallel programming to have many computers work on the same problem at the same time.
  

• Artificial Intelligence - a course on knowledge representation taught in LISP.
  
  
• Computer Architecture - structured computer organization.
  
  
• Supercomputer Applications - computational science and graphics visualization.