Colin Manning Munster Technological University

One student came to class to ask some questions. When he was done he left.  I waited for more, but none arrived. I left at 1845.

Nobody turned up. I waited until 1835.

We went straight to the lab. I explained how TurnItIn works and talked students through how to interpret the headline score. I tested code...

I talked a little bit about the exam and the essays. I explained hash functions on the board. We adjourned to the lab at 1830 because ge...

Class 17: Security. Hash Functions This is the last video (unless I get inspired). In subsequent weeks we will recap anything that is ...

In the lecture we briefly recapped on connecting to a Database. We spent most of the class discussing the assessments. I showed students h...

Class 15: Database Consistency [& Normalization] Class 16: Connecting to a Database

I did a quick recap of relational databases, normalization, and SQL. I could tell from everyone's faces that it was news to nobody. At...

This week we begin our look at Relational Databases & SQL Class 13: Introduction to Databases Class 14: Introduction to SQ...

We looked at the different ways to make data persist in PHP and how long it can last.  We also considered a bit how cookies can pose a threa...

Some students came to class despite the weather warning. Students worked on the checksum exercises. We did some on the board.

Class 11: Remembering Values Class 12: Cookies More about cookies: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/08...

In light of the weather warning for tonight I e-mailed exercises to students and suggested that they could work from home if they wish. I wi...

Class 09: The magic of cheksums Class 10: User input validation in PHP

I spoke a bit about HTML 5 inputs and how the browser do some very basic form validation for us. We did some exercises using regular expre...

This is a solution to the exercise posed last week. Week 04 Videos are Classes 07 & 08 Class 07 Class 08 ...

We looked at passing parameters. We paid particular to the difference between passing variables by value and by reference. Students did ...

Video lectures for Week 03: Class 05 Class 06

I did a very rapid summary of the contents of this weeks lecture videos. I gave students exercises to do. They took a bit longer than I wa...

While we were waiting for everyone to arrive I gave out a HTML exercise. For this module should should already know some HTML how to p...