= Bolt Tutorial, Part I: Courses and Lessons = == Creating a course == [ServerIntro Install the BOINC software] on a Linux system, or run the [VmServer BOINC server virtual machine] in a VMWare player on any computer. Use [MakeProject make_project] to create a BOINC project named "test": {{{ > cd boinc/tools > make_project --web_only test }}} Read '''~/projects/test/test.readme''' and do what it says. Let's say your server's domain name is "a.b.c". * Visit http://a.b.c/test/create_account.php and create an account for yourself. * Visit http://a.b.c/test_ops/bolt_admin.php. Follow the instructions to create the Bolt database, then create a course named "Identifying California conifers" with short name "conifer1". * Copy the files from http://boinc.berkeley.edu/bolt_example to ~/projects/test/html/. == Lessons and sequences == Let's start with a simple course consisting of 13 lessons. Each lesson consists of a PHP or HTML file. The first lesson is '''conifer_intro.php''': {{{ California conifers Throughout California's Sierra Nevada mountains, and especially at high altitudes, the dominant plants are tall, straight trees called conifers. Conifers are remarkable in many ways:
A Jeffrey pine growing on granite in the High Sierra
A bristlecone pine.