Getting Started:

1. Get your account information from your packet. This consists of your login id. Your temporary password is the same as your login id.

2. You can log into any computer in CB313 or CB311. If someone else is logged into the machine (but not using it) you should first log them out. To do this enter CONTROL-ALT-DELETE and select logoff. You may be asked if you want to save some files. Its usually a good idea to respond affirmatively.

3. At the login screen enter CONTROL-ALT-DELETE then enter your login id and password into the login screen. Note the cursor starts you on the id line. After your id is entered you can either hit TAB or click the left mouse button on the password line. Do NOT hit ENTER to go from the login to the password. Doing this is the same as telling the machine that there is no password. After entering your password select MS as the domain. Now hit ENTER. After a few seconds you should have a generic-looking screen with several icons and an application bar at the bottom which contains the START button (at the lower left of the screen).

Now lets browse the CHISEL CD.

 The CHISEL CD will install the CHISEL system on your personal machine. This installation has already been done on the workshop machines. Thus all that is required to use the CHISEL system is to have the CD in the drive. Note that the workshop machines are networked which makes it possible for you to work at any machine on in the lab and always have the same programs and files. One price for this is a perceptible delay in loading some of the software or large files may occur. Some patience on your part will be required. These delays will not occur on your personal machines.

 4. Place a CHISEL CD in the CD drive of the machine and click the CHISEL icon. This should launch the JAWS web server on your machine and the Netscape browser, pointed to the CHISEL CD. The result should be the CHISEL ‘WELCOME" page. Note that Netscape is a very large program. This takes a moment or two – even on personal machines.

 Note you will probably want to use NetScape as a window rather than full screen so that you can do other things concurrently. If it is a full screen click on the little square in the upper right corner which is between the one with a "_" and the one with the "X". Clicking the same square in the window will revert to the previous display fromat.

5. Click the "Start here to use CHISEL" link and go to the CHISEL main data menu. What you see is a list of the main data directories on CHISEL.

 6. Click Calculator Based Learning, Bill Hill, Casey County High School to access the main page for Bill Hill’s CBL materials. Bill will be here to talk about these materials and their use during the workshop. To take a quick look click on the HTML link. Select a section, e.g. Section 1 and briefly look at what’s there using the Netscape browser.

 7. Click the "back" button in the upper left of Netscape to move back to the main directory for Bill Hill’s materials and click on the

Word Document link. Select "open it" in the dialog box. This will automatically open up Microsoft Word and load the Word source document for Bill’s materials. Note that this is Bill’s original source in a form you can modify and adapt to your own needs. Go ahead and make a change using Word, e.g. delete some text. This cannot hurt the original document since it lives on the CD. You could, however save the modified version on the hard drive if you wanted to. Don’t bother to do this now.

  1. Go to the File menu in Word and move the bar to "exit". Say "no" when asked about saving the file.
  2. Use the "back" button on Netscape to go to the CHISEL main menu. Go down the list to A Collection of Mathematical Puzzles (Carl Lee, UK) and click. This is a collection of puzzles, each a separate Postscript document. Scroll down the page and pay attention to the "Note" (which reminds you that the diagrams for the puzzles are on the second page). Then go on down to the list titled "Directory Listing for Puzzles". It consists of a lot of file names with of the form *.ps (ps for PostScript). Click on one of them- as before select "open it". This opens the ghostview viewer. The "+" on the toolbar moves to the next page, the "-" to the previous page.
  3. Click on another puzzle and open it too. Note that you may need to click on the Netscape icon on the lower application bar to bring it to the foreground. Now you have two copies of ghostview running. Move between them simply by clicking in the appropriate window to choose. Make one of them occupy the entire screen by clicking on that little square in its upper right corner. Then bring it back to a window with the same operation.
  4. Print a copy of one of the puzzles by selecting the "print" at the "file" menu. Be sure that "postscript printer" is selected in the dialogue box. Go ahead and print both pages.
  5. Close your ghostscript applications by selecting "exit" at the file menu. The "X" in the upper right corner will do the same thing but be careful using it. Its easy to click the wrong "X" when you have a lot of windows open.
  6. Move back to the main CHISEL menu and select Visual Problem Solving: Introduction. Select a chapter, e.g. chapter 3, Block Factories and click on it. This takes you to the main directory for that chapter. Click on the *.mws file. In chapter 3 this is the "ch3.mws". The suffix "mws" is for "Maple Work Sheet. As before select "open it’ and say "yes" to the question about converting to release 5. This is the Maple worksheet source for that chapter. Place the mouse cursor on one of the colored diagrams, hold the button down and move the cursor. You should see the picture move to different orientations in space. Note that Maple tends to open "full screen". Use that little box icon to bring it to a window. Before going to the next step use the scroll bar at the right to move to the beginning of the document.
  7. Bring Netscape to the foreground and click on the *.ps file. (e.g. ch3.ps, just below ch3.mws). As always select "open it". This opens ghostview again. This is the exported LaTeX version of the maple worksheet.
  8. Bring Netscape to the foreground once more and select the *.tex file (e.g. ch3.tex). This is the LaTex source document for the formatted version of chapter 3. Look at it a little – you can begin to see the words that appear in the worksheet and formatted document.
  9. Close the various open Maple, Wordpad, and ghostview windows.
  10. Select "open page" from the file menu of NetScape and enter
    http://www.ms.uky.edu/~carl

    This takes you to Carl Eberhart’s home page. The home page for the workshop is a link from it as Communicating Mathematics. You can also go there directly it is     http://www.ms.uky.edu/~carl/sum98.html
  11. Go to the course home page, locate Week 1, Monday and click on the postscript (custom.ps) , tex, and eps, (jack.eps) and "to do" links. This will open up windows with the day’s material. Now save each of these files in the directory
    D:\chisel\tempdir which will be our working directory each day.

    Each of the open application windows has a file menu with a "save as" option. Save each of the open files in D:\chisel\tempdir. You should end up with

    D:\chisel\tempdir\custom.ps
    D:\chisel\tempdir\custom.tex
    D:\chisel\tempdir\jack.eps

Each of these would be written from a different program. Note that ghostview, unlike the other programs does not provide a default name for the files it saves. In this case we look at the top of the ghostview toolbar and see "jack.eps", the name of the file. We can save the file under this or another name of our choice. For now use

"jack.eps"

Now, using the tools and ideas from the lecture do the following:

A. Click on the TeXshell icon. This opens a "dos" window that "knows" where everything is. You may want to resize this window by clicking on the little icon in its upper left hand corner and selecting properties. Now click in the texshell window and change to the d:\chisel\tmpdir directory with the command

cd d:\chisel\tmpdir

now
B: execute this sequence of commands. Each will take a moment to two:

latex custom

dvips custom

gsview32 custom.ps

C: Open custom.tex in Word or WordPad and modify it to your own letter as done in lecture. Remember to start by making small changes (e.g. first simply address it to Paul Patton) and going through the editing cycle numerous times.

D: Replace the graphic in custom.tex with one of your own (e.g. drawn with ‘Paint’.

E: Go to step B.