SOFT7008 Week 07 Lecture

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 1900 we moved to the lab to work on this week's exercise.

SOFT7008 Week 05 Videos

Class 09: The magic of cheksums

Class 10: User input validation in PHP

SOFT7008 Week 04 Lecture

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 expressions. They didn't go as well as I would have liked. So perhaps some students need look at those again.

I previewed next weeks videos by introducing checksums.  We looked at the Luhn credit card validation algorithm.  Students seemed less impressed by this magic that I was expecting.

We moved to the lab at 2000


I e-mailed students the specification for the coding component of the module.

SOFT7008 Week 06 Lectures

This week we are looking at the different ways we can store information when moving between PHP pages.

Class 11: Remembering values in PHP

Class 12: Cookies

Some reading:

• http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/08/the-next-online-privacy-battle-powerful-supercookies/243800/
• http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/02/im-being-followed-how-google-151-and-104-other-companies-151-are-tracking-me-on-the-web/253758/
• http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/zombie-cookies-lawsuit/
• http://www.wired.com/business/2009/08/you-deleted-your-cookies-think-again/
• http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/google-safari-browser-cookie/
• http://www.wired.com/business/2010/12/zombie-cookie-settlement/
• https://www.cookielaw.org/

Some interesting detours:

Online Privacy: How did we get here?

Credit Reports

SOFT7008 Week 05 Lectures

This week we are looking at Checksums

Class 09 Checksums

Class 10 Coding checksums in PHP

SOFT7008 Week 04 Lectures

This week we are looking at forms.

Class 07 HTML forms & sending information to the PHP server

Class 08 Processing information from forms

SOFT7008 Week 03 Class 05 Exercise Solution

This is my solution to the exercise. See how it compares with your.s

SOFT7008 Week 03

This week we are looking at functions.

Class 05 Functions in PHP

Don't forget to do the exercise. The solution will be released here on Friday at 1600

Class 06 Functions that return values

SOFT7008 Week 03 Lab

We had a 2-hours-is lab session on Monday night. Nobody asked any questions, but that's OK too.

Quite a few students were able to make the session, so I think Monday nights might be the best time slot for us.

SOFT7008 Exercise 1 Feedback

Not everybody managed to get the exercise done on time.

A common mistake was to close of the list items too soon. When a list is nested inside another, it goes inside the li.  So closing off France with a /li when there are cities inside it, is incorrect.  Lists are not that important, but that exercise illustrates the structure of HTML.

If you struggled with this exercise, this video might help.

The HTML validator at validator.w3.org is a great resource for checking that HTML is correct.  Just because something looks OK in the browser, doesn't mean it's correct. We don't need a lot of HTML for this module.  So we won't dwell on it too much.

SOFT7008 Week 01 Exercise

Please complete the nested list exercise and submit it via Blackboard by Sunday lunchtime.

By now you should have watched the videos for Classes 01 & 02.

You should have your PHP server up an running. If you have not, or it you are not sure, please contact me.

When writing PHP & HTML you can use any text editor that you like. Most CIT students prefer Notepad++ or Programmers Notepad. Mac users like TextWrangler.  WordPad is a poor choice because it really encourages you to save the code as a .doc rather than a plain vanilla text file.

If you feel like you want to skip ahead on occasion I'll be putting the videos into this YouTube channel.

https://youtu.be/Qr_NHXdIMZg

SOFT7008 Week 01

Class 01
Intro to HTML & PHP

Class 02
Variable & string variables.