Monday, April 23, 2018

SOFT7008 Week 11

There are no more lectures for this module.  Starting this week there will be evening support sessions on both Monday and Wednesday nights.

Monday, March 26, 2018

SOFT7008 Week 09 Lectures



Class 15 Database Design







Class 16 Connecting to the Database






Wednesday, March 21, 2018

SOFT7008 Week 08

Monday was a holiday so we had no live session that night.

Instead of lectures this week we had a live support session on Wednesday night. Most students worked on the programming assignments.

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

SOFT7008 Week 07 Lectures

This week we are looking at Databases and SQL.


Class 13 Introduction to databases





Class 14 Introduction to SQL

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

SOFT7008 Week 05 Lectures

This week we are looking at Checksums




Class 09 Checksums








Class 10 Coding checksums in PHP



Tuesday, February 20, 2018

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

Thursday, February 15, 2018

SOFT7008 Week 03 Class 05 Exercise Solution


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

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

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


Monday, February 12, 2018

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.

Monday, February 5, 2018

SOFT7008 Week 02




Class 03
Working with numbers
example05.php

example07.php





Class 04
Control structures.  If, Switch, Loops. Arrays.
example09.php

example10.php

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.

Friday, February 2, 2018

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

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

SOFT7008 Week 01








Class 01
Intro to HTML & PHP


Class 02
Variable & string variables.








Wednesday, December 6, 2017

SOFT6013 Class 13

The remaining students presented their code to me.

Thursday, November 30, 2017

COMP7004 Class 12.3

No customers.

That concludes the bulk of our business.

Don't forget that the paper is due tomorrow at noon.

COMP7004 Class 12.2

No customers today

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

SOFT6013 Class 12

I helped students with the data visualisation assignment.

Some students presented their submissions. Those students do not need to come to class next week.

Monday, November 27, 2017