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Supercourse Mirroring and CD/DVD/Memory Stick Downloading

This page was last updated on 09/11/2018

This page contains instructions to:

• Get all the current Supercourse lectures to run from your personal computer or burn onto a DVD
• Get the "light Supercourse" (1000 lectures in English) to run from your personal computer or burn to CD
• Set up a Supercourse mirror site on your server

Please note these guidelines for use of Supercourse materials

• They are for the personal use of individual scientists and shared without restriction among scientists and teachers, but cannot be sold.
• If one uses a Supercourse lecture, the author of the lecture should be properly credited
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• The content and its accuracy is solely determined by the authors of the lectures.

General information

You can download just specific lectures that you want from the Supercourse web site.

If you download Supercourse files or create a mirror Supercourse site, please register by sending your name, e-mail and country to: supercoursehelp@gmail.com

In addition the links to external Supercourses make other lectures available(up to 350).

Please do not use lectures with numbers: 7011, 7021, 11961, 11971, 21241, 21311, 22231, 22711-22731,2357-23651, 23881, 24041-24051, 30831-30871, 31091, 31171 (29 lectures).

Contact: For any inquiries regarding Supercourse downloads, FTP, or installation, please contact Eugene at supercoursehelp@gmail.com

Get all the Supercourse lectures

Currently the whole Supercourse is about 8 GB in 59 zip files, which contain about 6000 lectures. 

To get the entire Supercourse, follow these steps. Please note that links to all the necessary files are included at the bottom of this page.

1. Create a folder on your hard drive to hold the Supercourse materials.
   1. For a DVD, name it "Supercourse DVD", for example.
   2. To work from your personal computer, name it "Supercourse" for example.
2. Copy the base.zip(480Mb) file to the "Supercourse" or "Supercourse DVD" folder.
3. Unzip base.zip. Note that several subfolders are created, including one named "lecture".
4. Copy all the lecxxx-xxx.zip files into "lecture" subfolder.
5. Unzip all of the lecxxx-xxx.zip files.

Now you can either:

• Run Supercourse from the index.htm file in the "Supercourse" folder.
• Create a Supercourse DVD by burning a DVD which includes all the contents of the "Supercourse DVD" folder.

Instructions for the DVD

Please read the instructions for using and sharing the Supercourse DVD.

Labeling the DVD

You can label your DVD using this draft Supercourse DVD label:

• Label (jpg)
• Label for printing(tif) Please change number of lectures before printing if needed

For other partners, you can add your logo and explanation at the same size as ours or smaller. Please see this sample Logo for Ukrainian Edition.

Get the "Light Supercourse"

These instructions will help you create copy the "Light Supercourse" (1000 lectures in English, January 2009 version) on your personal computer or a CD. Please note that links to all the necessary files are included at the bottom of this page.

1. Create a folder on your hard drive to hold the Supercourse materials.
   1. For a DVD, name it "Supercourse DVD".
   2. To work from your personal computer, name it "Supercourse".
2. Copy the EnglishCDbase.zip file to the "Supercourse" or "Supercourse CD" folder.
3. Unzip EnglishCDbase.zip. Note that several subfolders are created, including one named "lecture".
4. Copy all the EnglishCDx.zip files into "lecture" subfolder.
5. Unzip all of the EnglishCDx.zip files.

Now you can either:

• Run Light Supercourse from the index.htm file in the "Supercourse" folder.
• Create a Light Supercourse CD by burning a CD which includes all the contents of the "Supercourse CD" folder.

Instructions and Label for the CD

Please read the instructions and a draft label for the Light Supercourse CD.

Create Supercourse Mirror site

To create a Supercourse Mirror Site, follow these steps. Please note that links to all the necessary files are included at the bottom of this page.

1. Create a folder named "Supercourse" on your server.
2. Copy the base.zip file to it.
3. Unzip base.zip. Note that several subfolders are created, including one named "lecture".
4. Copy all the lecxxx-xxx.zip files into "lecture" subfolder.
5. Unzip all of the lecxxx-xxx.zip files.

Your "Supercourse" folder now has all the Supercourse files. Please use the index.htm web page inside of your "Supercourse" folder as the starting web page for Supercourse.

Please tell us the web address of your Mirror Site by emailing to supercoursehelp@gmail.com

Mirror site updating

Once a mirror has set up, please check periodically for updates/new files. You can check the availability of new, deleted and updated files for Supercourse at this page. You only need to download those lectures which have been uploaded since the the last time you did an update.

Mirror site listserv

Please inform us if your E-mail address changes.

Supercourse files

"Light Supercourse" Files