North Lake College Resources
Here are some things our students find handy.
They are in four different formats, Star Office, ASCII text,
HTML, and even in Word 97...
The HTML conversion document above has a link to a JavaScript based quiz on
conversions and addition in different bases. This script was created with
a really interesting JavaScript quiz creation Wizard called: jqwiz. If you are looking for
a useful tool to create online testing, this just might be what you are
looking for. Use this link, if you want to take the quiz! The quiz and the whole package to implement it on your site is
available here. If you have questions
or comments, please contact the management.
In addition to the student materials listed above, there are also a
pair of scripts that we find useful for setting up and "putting away"
student accounts on a Linux box. We also have a version for Sun OS.
The script to create student accounts, creates different user IDs
depending on the semester, and the time of day. That way each class
is in a different group.
add_user_l.sh -- Linux version
add_user_c.sh -- Sun OS version
In either case, also download:
add_user.gawk The required gawk file.
This script takes as input a file, the first line of the file is
the semester and time, (documented within the script), and the rest
of the lines are the student names, one per line, in First Name Last
Name order. The script will create 3 character user IDs, of the form:
FLn
where F is the students first initial, L is the last initial and
"n" is the number indicating the semester and time of day.
The script to flush the users also tars and compresses all of their
files, (so you can recreate a student's work later if you need to),
and is available from:
flush_user_tar.sh -- Linux version
flush_user_tar2.sh --
Sun OS version
This script takes as input a list, one per line, of user IDs to flush.
It then tars, compresses, and stores the tar files in a specific directory.
Since this script is set up for the NLC machine, you will need to change
the path to point to your machine.
Now that they are "public", I will be cleaning them up. Look for new
versions in the near future, but this can get you started.
Enjoy.
In addition, here is a little awk script, written by Ken Frazer,
to help you build text documents for posting here. The problem
with converting a StarOffice document to text format is that
the lines are often too long and it is a pain to manually insert
new lines. Ken's script will insert newlines into the
lines, on word boundaries, at the line length you specify. (It
defaults to 50 bytes). To use it do the following:
cat longfile | awk -f wrapline.awk 55 > fixedfile
(This will break the lines in longfile at or before byte 55 and
store the modified lines in the file fixedfile.)
You can download the
wrapline.awk
script and use it on your box to "fix" the files.
Thanks to Ken!
In as well as the great awk script, Ken has also given us three of
his lecture presentations/notes. They are presented here in StarImpress,
(sdd), Adobe (pdf) and powerpoint (ppt) formats.
Another North Lake instructor, Brian Koontz, has created some
class notes
notes for his students, this list will grow, week by week, so
check back and see what Brian and his class are up to.
These notes should follow along with the Nroth Lake College 1480 syallabus.
Suggestions, comments, ideas, please contact the
management.
We value your input!
