Mathematics MA061

Getting started - assignment 1

Once you have managed to log in and explore the facilities of the system, do the following:

Use an editor to create a file containing a short paragraph about yourself. For instance say what your name is and where you went to school.
Save this text in a file in your home directory. (Best to stick to ordinary letters for the name of the file. The symbols & and ? are best avoided as part of the name, and best not to have spaces in the name.) Let's say we call the file zero, or zero.txt or zero dot something else depending on what editor you use. See below for information on editors.
Using the command ls -l see if you are happy with the permissions on your file (and its name). Who else can read the file but you?
Use the command submit-work to submit your file under the category MA061:1

There are many editors available on the system. Any of them should be up to this task! Here are a few of the choices.

pico is a very simple text editor. It has few fancy features and uses the keyboard, no mouse commands. It tells you what to do when you start it (by typing pico, or pico filename).
kedit is to be found under the K menu in KDE. (Try Utilities -> Editors.) It is a bit like Notepad.
kate and kwrite are more fancy.
There are many more options, some of which are less easy to use right away. emacs is good, but maybe too complicated for this task.