Note:  The login / password that you signed up for is for using the computers in the lab.  This user name / password is only for gaining access to the lab computers, and has nothing to do with logging into UH UNIX.  Also, be careful and make sure that you logout from the computers when you leave the lab or other persons may see your stuff or use your account to do "bad" things.

1.  Login to UNIX (Secure Shell in Windows)
    - If you're at home, a good program to use to connect to UNIX is Putty (click here to download).  The putty program is executable and doesn't need to be installed.
    - Host name is:  uhunix2.its.hawaii.edu
    - Your user name is the first part of your UH e-mail address.  If your UH email address is 'frank@hawaii.edu', your user name would be 'frank'.  Your password is the same as your e-mail password.

2.  Create a Java file using Pico (Getting Started with Pico)

• use your 'HelloWorld.java' program as a starting point.  You can start by changing the 'HelloWorld.java filename and the 'HelloWorld' class name to something else (such as 'Lab3.java' and 'Lab3' for a class name...)

3.  Edit the file in Pico (Getting Started with Pico), then compile and run the  program.

Do the following:

• create the String sAbc = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ,;-" (note:  everything inside the quotes is part of the String)
• use the above String to make the sentence "JAVA is cool".  This can be accomplished by using the methods charAt(), toUpperCase(), and concat().  Note the space in the string above, after the 'z'- you can use this character to make spaces in your sentence.
• Some examples: 
  •     sAbc.charAt(9) will return 'j'
  •     and sAbc.charAt(0) will return 'a'. 
  •     To store the character 'J' into a String, you could do the following two lines of code: 
    •    String output = "" + sAbc.charAt(0); (Note: you cannot simply store a character into a String, since characters and Strings are not the same, so you need to 'add' the character on to the end of the empty String)
    •    output = output.toUpperCase(); (Note: the .toUpperCase() method capitalizes the entire String- so if your String contains 'I love Java' your new String will be 'I LOVE JAVA')
  •     If you had two Strings to concat: 
    •    String a = "part1";
    •    String b = "part2";
    •    String output = a.concat(b);  (output = part1part2)
  •     If you had three Strings to concat: 
    •    String a = "part1";
    •    String b = "part2";
    •    String c = "part3";
    •    String output = a.concat(b.concat(c));  (You could also do the following:  String output = a.concat(b).concat(c);)
    •    The above set of statements would store 'part1part2part3' into the String called output.
• Before you submit your code, make sure that your code is formatted cleanly.  Every time you open a new {, you should indent everything one tab (or 5 spaces) underneath it.  For example:

  public class HelloWorld {
       public static void main(String[] args) {
            System.out.println("Hello World!");
       }
  }

4.  Get into Pine (Getting Started with Pine, PDF)

• Your e-mail should have the following subject:  lab3 / lastname / section  (lastname should be substituted for your lastname, section should be substituted with the A for the afternoon section and M for the morning section)  Not following this standard will result in a deduction of points.

5.  Attach the file (.java) to an e-mail (See pages 11-12 in Getting Started with Pine, PDF)

• control <J>, then control <T> allows you to browse and pick the file that you wish to attach

6.  Send the e-mail / file to the ics111-lab@hawaii.edu account.

7.  Check the webpage to make sure that the e-mail arrived.  Note that this will be sent to the ICS 111 lab address (ics111-lab@hawaii.edu).  This one is different from the ics111-homework@hawaii.edu.  There are two different ones so we can have homework assignments and lab assignments separate.

Here are the URLs:
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~tp_200/bmf/ics111-homework.html
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~tp_200/bmf/ics111-lab.html

7. Once I (TA) get the e-mail in my account AND I can verify it on the web, you will receive your lab participation point.  For grading policies on your lab, click here...

* Some may argue that it is easier to do this from WebMail. If you e-mail your homework from webmail, it means that you're not positive that it runs / works properly in UNIX.  This could result in point deduction if your stuff doesn't work properly.