Week

Start Date

Due Date

What's Due by Due Date

Weekly Topic

Homework Assignment

1

Aug-17

Aug-28

Personal Introduction on Forum, email to instructor on Insight, Practice quiz and submit DONE.TXT

Introduction to Course: How to use Insight

Read the week one online Course Content. Introduce yourself on the Forum and reply to an introduction. Buy the Textbook. Become familiar with the schedule & course requirements. Upload Week 1 DONE.TXT. Take the Practice Quiz. Email instructor on Insight with details of computer to be used for homework. Optional: Attend the in-person orientation on CCSF Campus,

2

Aug-28

Sep-08

Tutorial 1 practice quiz & Tutorial quiz.

Tutorial 1: Introduction to Command Line: Operating System and Command Prompt

DO/READ Tutorial 1, Sessions 1.1 & 1.2
Note special late due date due to Labor Day holiday.

3

Sep-04

Sep-11

Tutorial 2 practice quiz & Tutorial 2 quiz
also Case 3

Tutorial 2: Displaying Directories

DO/READ Tutorial 2, Sessions 2.1 & 2.2
To turn in: After doing all steps in the tutorial, at the end of chapter do Case 3 and create a file called xxxxxTutorial2.txt to upload to this week's assignment.

4

Sep-11

Sep-18

Tutorial 3 Disk Directory due and practice quiz & Tutorial 3 quiz

Tutorial 3: Working with files

DO/READ Tutorial 3, Sessions 3.1 & 3.2

5

Sep-18

Sep-25

Tutorial 4 treefile.txt due and practice quiz & Tutorial 4 quiz

Tutorial 4: Using Directories and Subdirectories

DO/READ Tutorial 4.
To turn in: xxxxxtreefile.txt from p. 161, showing that you have completed all steps in the Tutorial. 

6

Sep-25

Oct-02

Tutorial 5 due
practice quiz & Tutorial 5 quiz
Aftertree and backup disk directories

Tutorial 5: Managing and backing up a hard disk

DO/READ Tutorial 5.
To Turn in: On page 186, create xxxx_aftertree.txt. On page 218 step 6, APPEND the tree of your backup diskette to the same file. (Hint: remember >> )

7

Oct-02

Oct-09

Forum Post and 2 responses

Managing commands using absolute and relative paths

Graded Forum Assignment: Using the Week 7 Graded Forum, post a message with a demonstration of a command using absolute and relative paths. You should have a task in mind, and show how to achieve the results once with an absolute path, and once with a relative path. You must also reply to at least 2 other student's posts, and try their commands, and post back with comments on whether it worked, and perhaps give an alternative command that would achieve the same or similar results.

8

Oct-09

Oct-16

Midterm Exam

All tests are open book, but timed, so you do not have time to look up all the answers.
Covers Tutorials 1 through 5.

9

Oct-16

Oct-23

Tutorial 6 Case 3 and practice quiz

Tutorial 6: Using Troubleshooting Tools

DO/READ Tutorial 6, Sessions 6.1 and 6.2 only.
Important Note: XP users pay particular attention to XP Appendix, as there are different troubleshooting tools in Windows XP.
To turn in: Answers to Case 3.

10

Oct-23

Oct-30

Turn in page 3 of the Recovery Console Lab assignment  and Tutorial 6 quiz

Recovery Console

DO/READ Tutorial 6, Session 6.3, and Tutorial 7, Session 7.3.
To turn in: page 3 of the Recovery Console Lab download. If you do not have access to the original Windows installation CD there is a lab at City College you may use.

11

Oct-30

Nov-06

Tutorial 7 batch files due. also Tutorial 7 Quiz and practice quiz

Tutorial 7: Using Batch Programs

DO/READ Tutorial 7, Sessions 7.1 & 7.2. Turn in ONE text file containing all the batch files you create.

12

Nov-06

Nov-16

Sessions 8.1 and 8.2 batch files with a DIR/S/O appended

Tutorial 8 Sessions 8.1 and 8.2 only

DO/READ Tutorial 8, Sessions 8.1 and 8.2 only. Turn in batch files from the sessions with a directory of the test USB or floppy drive showing all files and subdirectories in alphabetical order

13

Nov-13

Nov-20

All Session 8.3 batch files due with a TREE and EmpTitles output appended.  Tutorial 8 quiz and practice quiz.

Tutorial 8 Session 8.3: Enhancing the Power of Batch Programs

DO/READ Tutorial 8, Session 8.3
Turn in ONE text file containing all the batch files you create in Session 8.3. On page 400, redirect the output of the tree/f command to a file called xxxxOutput.txt. On page 404, append the output of the Emptitles command in step 1 to the xxxxOutput.txt file.

14

Nov-20

Dec-01

Tutorial 9, and Case 3.
Tutorial 9 quiz and practice quiz.

Tutorial 9: The Windows Registry

DO/READ Tutorial 9. Be careful not to damage your registry!
Do Case 3, to turn in via the Assignments page. Note late due date due to Thanksgiving holiday.

15

Nov-27

Dec-08

Group Project. GroupContribute.txt also due.

Group Batch programming Project

Group Project: Tutorial 8, Group Project. You will all be assigned to a group, and work on a batch program for one of the Tutorial 8 Cases. Note late due date due to Thanksgiving holiday.

16

Dec-04

Dec-11

Tutorial 10 Case 2
Tutorial 10 quiz and practice quiz.

Tutorial 10: Connecting to Networks and Internet

DO/READ Tutorial 10. Do Case 3, p 526. Turn in the answers and Pingdiag.txt

17

Dec-11

Dec-18

FINAL EXAM
Covers Tutorials
6-10

FINAL EXAM

Note early end date   

Exam must be taken between the available dates. Remember, exams are open book but are timed. Covers Tutorials 6 through 10 only.  Must be taken by 11:55pm on December 18.