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CS2102.01- WEB AS PLATFORM - Spring 2010

YouTube Data API
Intro to CSS
- Copy the XHTML Basic recommendation
Web Service Assignments - go over example service report
Get set up on server (FTP lesson)
Decide which API to cover next
Homework:
- Read Beyond the API
- Research an API and make a project proposal (we will decide which one)
- Add some more CSS to your home page

Share yout YouTube Data API ideas
show your web pages - by this point they should have some beautiful CSS
Max: Google Analytics
FTP intro
Blueprint CSS
- test pages
- Quickstart Tutorial
pre-intro to PHP
SEPC stuff
Homework
- Project proposal using Google Analytics
- Redo your page using Blueprint CSS
- Make sure all of your HTML stuff is up on your cs2.bennington.edu site by next class
- Study for in-class HTML/CSS test next week

In-class HTML/CSS test
Discuss Google Analytics proposals
Jiaying: Google Maps
Intro to PHP
- $Variables
- concatenation
- print()
- include()
We aren't going to cover it in class, but I highly recommend you look into JavaScript on your own. You might want to wait until after Week 8.
Homework
- Project proposal using Google Maps
- Templatize (make header.php and footer.php files) your home page and all of your project pages using the include() function.

Questions about templatizing (using the include function)
Discuss Google Maps proposals
A note about homework: points given for creativity
- project proposals: don't propose something that is basically described on the website
- coding assignments: you will not get full credit for doing exactly what I tell you to do, because this usually isn't much
Don't put your address on your home page!
Jeff Crouse: Mechanical Turk
PHP: Variables review
PHP: Arrays: allow the programmer to store more than one value in a variable, whilst retaining a single reference. If we think of a variable as a box that can contain data of a certain type - number, character, etc. - then an array is the equivalent of a box divided into partitions, each containing a piece of data.
- declaring
- initializing
- “zero-based”
- processing
- “push”
- associative array
- array functions
  - size
  - print_r
  - foreach
- multi-dimensional
- Helpful links
  - PHP Arrays (w3schools)
  - PHP Array Tutorial
  - Programming PHP: Chapter 5: Arrays
  - PHP manual reference and php function reference - not recommended as a tutorial, just as reference.
Firebug
5 minute meetings (maybe)
Homework:
- Mechanical Turk project proposal
- re-do your calendar using a php foreach loop

Discuss OpenCalias proposals
Sara: Flickr, Monty: Amazon EC2
Intro
PHPMyAdmin
Creating tables
Homework
- Flickr project proposal
- Make a form that will allow you to save a blog entry to your database. This includes title, body, date, and anything else you want. Here is the code we worked on in class: form2.php

Discuss Flickr proposals
Ivana: Wordpress
Connecting to a database
Writing queries
Homework
- Wordpress project proposal
- Make a page that displays all of your blog entries. here is what we worked on in class: blog.php