Produced & Directed by Meshak Productions
Preface
Welcome to the Virtual Trojan Center!
The Virtual Trojan Center was set up as a learning community to serve the needs of both on-campus and distance education students, educators and researchers from Dakota State University.
It is based on beliefs that each member of the Dakota State Community has rights and responsibilities to themselves and the rest of the community. Its goal is to prove that online interactions and creations can enhance and further learning communities.
This manual is an ``immigration'' document. It is designed to provide you some information about the values and mores of our community, and the kinds of interactions that are acceptable within our community. Because the Dakota State University community is computer-based some of our interactions are mediated through computers. A critical survival skill in our community, therefore, is knowledge of various commands for communicating, moving and constructing in our space. We hope that this document will help you as you make your way from beginner to expert in our community.
This manual will guide you from the very basics of setting up your character, to intermediate knowledge of how the moo language works, and how to program. Each section will give a brief overview of what the command does, the syntax to use the command, an example, and some worksheets to help you practice your newly developed skills.
In the syntax examples, the symbols < > are used to accentuate what you need to personalize. You do not have to type them. In other syntax examples, you may see [ ] placed around items that are optional to include. Many commands have shortcuts to make them quicker to input, these shortcuts will be placed in ( ) next to the command. When typing in your commands, you do not need to worry about using capital letters or small letter. Commands are not case sensitive (in all but a few cases, and those will be pointed out) so either will work.
Enjoy and Happy Mooing!
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