Chapter 3 Effects of IT on Strategy and Competition

Transcript Chapter 3 Effects of IT on Strategy and Competition

Introduction To
GU Computing Facility, FTP
and Web#1
Dr. Jason C. H. Chen
Professor of MIS
School of Business Administration
Gonzaga University
Spokane, WA 99258
[email protected]
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Attention …
• Always write the class & personal
information on any assignments and exams
• For example:
– Bmis235-01 (or bmis235-02)
– ROW: 2
– Name: John Smith
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Collaboration Project
• Read Handout (also available on the Bb) thoroughly
• You are required to create and complete the following:
– a gmail (email) account automatically provides you a google
account
– you then have “two” gmail (Google) accounts
– Complete UYK#2 (a. thru f ) on p.69 and g. on the
assignment sheet, and
– click “Assignments” on the Bb and
• a) click “click her for Collaboration Software Project” for detailed
instruction about how to submit your answer to the instructor)
• b) click “Collaboration Software Project” when you complete the
project and ready for submitting the project online
– Submit your answer via Blackboard
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Learning Objectives
• What do you have access to when you log
into the machine in labs?
• File Systems
• MS Windows
• Barney
• FTP
• The Blackboard System
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What is Technology and
Why Technology?
• Technology is not only considered
simply as an asset or a capability
to manage but also as a factor that
has an impact on almost every
management method and practice.
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C:
Drives on Local
D: or G:
H: (Virtual directory)
mapping to accounts in
Barney Systems
My Network Places
PC
Lab 07, 012, & 021
You are here
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My Network Places
Entire Network
Microsoft Windows Network
Gonzaga
Jepsonnt2
Chuang
BMIS235, MBUS342,
MBUS626, MBUS674
File Server in Jepsonnt2
Barney machines
H: drive
· public_html
· other folders
Basic services
· email
· Web pages
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File Systems
• A file system is a structure that organize data in the
form of files in storage media, such as a hard drive.
• Technically, there are many different file systems,
depending on operating systems (Windows, Linux,
Unix, and Solaris), but they are quite similar from the
user’s viewpoint.
• From user’s viewpoints, computer files are organized
in a hierarchical structure according to classification
scheme the user decides, just like the catalog system
in the library.
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File Systems: Hierarchical
Structure
• Volumes (drives) -> Folders (directories) -> subfolders ->…->files
– C: drive
– H: Barney account
– G: CD-ROM
• Root directory: The topmost directory of one volume
• Current directory: The folder/directory that the
user/program is working in
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Windows Explorer
• Windows Explorer is a GUI (graphic user interface)
tool that allows the user to manage file systems
Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> Windows Explorer
• Two panes:
– Navigation pane (hierarchical list of folders): shows the
hierarchical structure of the file system.
• +/- signs are used to collapse or expand the hierarchy.
– Content pane: shows the contents of an ACTIVE folder
• An active folder is the one highlighted or clicked that you are
working on.
• You need to click on the “folder” icon, not the plus (or minus)
sign to make a folder active.
• On the top are tool bar and menu bar
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Basic Operations
• Navigation pane:
– My Computer
• Local disk (C:) & CD-ROM (E:)
• johndoe$ on ‘jepsonw2kfs’ (H:)
• Content pane: Contents in an active folder
• Important concepts
– Which drive (volume)? C:, D; E:, or H:
– Which directory (folder)?
– File name?
• Copy/move files between folders/drives
• Create/erase files/folders
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Barney System (I)
• The Barney System:
– manages student accounts,
– provides email services (Zagmail) – it is now
“powered” by Gmail, and
– hosts web pages: If you create and upload web pages
into a designated folder in your account, one will be
able to see those pages with a web browser.
• Note: Your assignments must be placed in the
designated folder (public_html) so I can grade
them anywhere.
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Barney System (II)
• Transfer files between your Barney account
and the drives on the computer you are
working on.
– When you are in the lab, H: drive
• Note: the H: drive is a logical drive and exists only when
you are in the lab on campus. It is not a physical drive.
This means that if you are not in the lab and want to
access files in your barney account, you have to use
other ways (e.g. FTP) to download or upload files to or
from your Barney account.
– When you are NOT in the lab: Use FTP (explained
at the end)
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Type in the following URLs
Always use “Firefox” as the default web browser,
otherwise, some errors might be occurred.
http://barney.gonzaga.edu/~your_userID
http://barney.gonzaga.edu/~chen
http://barney.gonzaga.edu/~chenta
http://barney.gonzaga.edu/~chenta2
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Creating Links Within a Document
• To create a link within a document, you enclose
the content that you want to format as a link in an
<a> tag, and use the href attribute to identify the
link target
• A link’s content is not limited to text
<a href="myself.pptx"><b>Know more about me with
PowerPoint presentation </b></a>
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Creating an HTML Document
• In planning, identify a document’s different
elements.
• An element is a distinct object in the
document, like a paragraph, a heading, or a
page’s title
• Formatting features such as boldfaced font,
and italicized text may be used
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The Structure of an HTML File
• An HTML document is divided into two
parts: the head and the body
• The head element contains information
about the document, for example the
document title or the keywords
• The content of the head element is not
displayed within the Web page
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The Structure of an HTML File
• The body element contains all of the
content to be displayed in the Web page
• The body element can contain code that
tells the browser how to render the content
• The title element contains the page’s title; a
document’s title is usually displayed in the
title bar
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Marking Elements with Tags
• Elements that employ one-sided tags are called
empty elements since they contain no content. An
example is a line break <br/>
• A third type of tag is the comment tag, which you
can use to add notes to your HTML code

• Comments are useful in documenting your HTML
code for yourself and others
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Marking Elements with Tags
• The core building block of HTML is the tag, which marks
each element in a document
• Tags can be two-sided or one-sided
• A two-sided tag is a tag that contains some document
content. General syntax for a two-sided tag:
<element>content</element>
in which <element> is the opening tag
</element> is the closing tag
• A one-sided tag contains no content; general syntax for a
one-sided tag:
<element />
• HTML allows you to enter element names (not file names
or folder names) in either uppercase or lowercase letters
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Displaying an HTML File
• As you work on a Web page, you should
occasionally view it with your Web browser
to verify that the file contains no syntax
errors or other problems
• You may want to view the results using
different browsers to check for
compatibility
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Create your First Web Page
• Please note that case is “sensitive” for all
file names and folder’s names in ALL web
page assignments.
• For example, index.html is different from
Index.html
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Create your first Web Page
• Create the following three files (index.html,
myself.pptx, and myresume.docx) and save them
under the folder of public_html in the H: drive if
you are doing the homework on campus.
• Otherwise, you should transfer the three files
(using FTP – see Figure 2) to your account inside
the folder of public_html
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Figure 1. Web Strructure
H: [root directory]
|
public_html [web folder]
index.html
myself.pptx
myresume.docx
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1. Create your first HTML file, index.html
a) Use NotePad to create an html file (Figure 1) and save it as index.html
b) It is very important of naming the file as index.html since it is the
default file name that Web Browser will invoke from your personal
web page (i.e, from your GU email resource). Please note that
i) the file extension should be .html NOT .doc neither .htm
ii) how to do it? Hint:
iii) Select Save As from the File menu, then choose All Files (default is
Text Documents (*.txt)) from the Save as type prompts then type
the file name as index.html inside the File name box. Click on
Save button when you finish. Fail to follow the instruction, the file
name might become index.html.txt
iv) If you choose to name your documents different from what the
names below, be sure that the file name does NOT include a space
(use of a underscore, ‘_’, is recommended).
v) case is sensitive for all file names and folder names in ALL web page
assignments. For example, index.html is different from
Index.HTML
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Figure 1. index.html

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Home Page for your name here</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY style="background-color: lightgreen">
…
…
…
…
…
main html codes should be
placed here.
<ADDRESS>For comments about my web site, please e-mail me at:
<A HREF="MAILTO: your actual email address">your actual email address</A>
<BR>This document was last updated on May 21, 2012</ADDRESS>
</BODY>
one word
</html>
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Figure 1. index.html

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Home Page for Jason Chen</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!-css codes to be added here
CSS code
-->
</style>
</head>
<body style="background-color:lightgreen;" >
<center> <h1>Welcome to JASON CHEN's Home Page! </h1> </center>
ul: Unordered List
<br /> <br />
<ul style="list-style-type: circle; text-indent: 15pt">
li: List Item
<li><a href="myself.pptx"> <b>Know more about me with PowerPoint presentation
</b></a> </li>
<li><a href="myresume.docx"><b>Visit my resume (MS-WORD format)</b></a>
</li>
</ul>
<br /><br />
<address>For comments about my web site, please e mail me at:
<a href="MAILTO: your actual email address">your actual email address</a>
<br />This document was last updated on May 21, 2012</address>
</body>
</html>
one word
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2. Test your first web page:
a) invoke a Web Browser (e.g., Firefox)
b) type in your URL (the following is my URL – for
teaching purpose)
http://barney.gonzaga.edu/~chenta
or,
http://barney.gonzaga.edu/~your_userID
3. Next, create the following two additional documents:
a). a powerpoint file introduces yourself (something you
want to share with your friends and/or sell yourself to your
future employer) and save it as myself.pptx
b). a resume file in MS-WORD format (see a sample at the
end of the handout) and save it as myresume.docx
4. Test your web page again
a) invoke a Web Browser (e.g., Firefox)
b) type in your URL again.
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http://barney.gonzaga.edu/~chenta
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The following page is for your web2 assignment
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5. Validating your HTML program
• It is required to “Validate” and “View” your
HTML code (validator.w3.org) and
debug/correct the code before you submit
the assignment (see HTML p.73-77 or a file
for Validating HTML code for details)
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What/How you should turn in
6. What/How you should turn in: email me with the
following information (Fail to provide me
with ALL information, you will lose major points)
a) To: [email protected]
b) Subject: BMIS235-03 Web#1
(or BMIS235-04 Web#1)
c) Message :
Dr. Chen:
Here is my Web#1 assignment.
http://barney.gonzaga.edu/~your_userID
<Your Full Name> at the end of the message line
so that I can record/grade your homework.
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• What happen if
you are
working your
web
assignments
off campus?
FTP
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Why do you need to know FTP?
• Simply say, FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a tool
that allows you to transmit files between
computers or between other electronic devices in
distance. For example, when you download a
piece of MP3 music, you are using download
software based on FTP. FTP also underpins many
online auction and gaming.
• It just simply looks and works a little bit different.
The reason you need to learn how to use FTP is
because sooner or later you need to transfer files
from one computer to another and the most
convenient way is to use FTP.
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What is FTP?
• FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a set of rules that
regulate how two computers (client/server) establish
connections, submit and receive messages, and
reorganize messages. When downloading a file from
the Internet, you're transferring the file to your
computer (called client) from another computer
(called server or host) in distance over the Internet.
• The server computer is usually a dedicated computer
with an FTP address to provide file transfer services.
An FTP server is like a warehouse for computer files.
You can store (upload) or retrieve (download) files
from there.
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Download FTP Program
• Type the following keyword on the Google
search
– filezilla client download
– Select an appropriate one for your computer
– i.e., either Windows or MAC OS x
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You need to provide some information to create connection
with the FTP server. The meanings of those fields are:
•Profile Name
•Host Name/Address
•Host Type
•User ID
•Password
•Account
•Anonymous
•Save Password
•Initial Directories
•Comment
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After you provide necessary information, clicking on the OK button will establish
the connection between the machine you are working on and the host. The FTP
Client usually has two panes: The pane on the left displays the files on your local
computer and the pane on the right displays the files on the remote computer.
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Transferring files is quite straightforward:
(1) choose the right folder/directory in either local machine or remote machine
(2) choose the file you want to transfer
(3) click on one of the direction arrows located between the panes.
The above procedure is the same for upload (from local machine to remote machine) and
for download (from remote machine to local machine).
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