COAP:COAP-2100/week7
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Week 7 COAP 2100
Topics Covered
- Web server architectures
- Running a webserver on your own PC
- HTML5 for information ...
- HTML forms tutorial (continued)
- The concept of server-side scripting and web applications
Teaching materials
- HTML forms tutorial (includes both JavaScript and server-side scripting with PHP)
- HTML5 (just FYI)
- internet-intro.pdf
Classroom activities
- Monday
- What do we mean by the Internet (part II - web application architectures)
- Slides used: internet-intro.pdf
- Internet tutorial (first part of the slides above spelled out ...)
- Using a web server
- Short demo of Modular Webserver System
- Web hosting (demo by a student ?) and file transfer
- Processing forms with PHP (a taster)
- Wednesday
Information on:
- XML
- SVG
- Document formats
Homework 7
- Task
Create a PHP program that can process a quiz made with simple radio buttons. In addition it should include 1-2 text input fields that ask for a name
- You can reuse elements from the JavaScript (hw 6) exercise. You also could relate its topic to the term project.
- You may use questionnaire items from other sources, but do not plagiarize. If you reuse assets from another source, cite the source. Plagiarism is simply not accepted and will be sanctioned.
Note: CS students familiar with HTML forms and PHP can use other HTML forms.
- Tips
- Validate your HTML code
- Use the server log files for finding PHP errors
- Evaluation criteria
- Ergonomics and content (does the quiz "make sense" and is it interesting)
- HTML and CSS code (is it valid)
- Style and presentation
- PHP (is your code running, does it compute ok)
- Due
- Before Wednesday week 8 class
- Submission
- Submit the file to the world classroom
Category: COAP 2100