EGR 103/Spring 2018/Lab 1

This page will go through the abbreviated, virtual version of Lab 1 since...snow...

Introduction

Lab 1 is an introduction to Duke's UNIX system as well as to writing lab reports in LaTeX. Because of the school closing during the first lab, the parts of the lab that can be moved to a future week without impacting the progress of the course have been moved. However, it is important in this first week to learn how to work on lab assignments, how to maneuver a bit in Unix, and how to start documenting your work in LaTeX. You should be able to follow along with this guide. Here's what you should accomplish by the end:

• Download, install, and use a terminal program on your own computer or on a public Duke machine. For Windows folks this will be MobaXterm and for Mac folks it will be XQuartz
• Connect to Duke's Unix system and look at the space that has been created for you
• Create a folder for the course in your home directory and create a folder for the first lab in your course folder
• Use wget to copy a file from my web space to your lab folder
• Use tar to expand the file you copied into the files you need for lab this week
• Use xemacs to edit a text file containing LaTeX code
• Use latex to process a tex document
• Use dvipdf to convert the processed document to a pdf
• Use evince to view the finished document
• Understand the basic troubleshooting techniques for LaTeX documents.

Things to not worry about

• Margins.
• Extra space between the contents of the matrix and the determinant bars.
• Zombies.