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= For this week =
= Morning =


== Reading ==
Review checklist items from last week +


Reading for today's meeting is Ted Nelson's "Way out of the box".
* Review tag assignment
* Setting up / Locating a local webserver
* userdir


[[Image:Flame.gif|left]] You may wish to read this text aloud, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soapbox soapbox] optional. For added ambience, consider printing and then burning pictures of Tim Berners-Lee, Marc Andreessen, and Steve Jobs.
= Afternoon =


* [[Image:WayOutOfTheBox.pdf]]
You can use the [[Template.html]].


== Technical Plan ==
== Exercise 1: FormFunction ==


The idea is to write your technical plan using only the tags possible in 1993-era HTML, as described [http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/Tags.html here].
The idea of this exercise is to create a unique "front end" interface with a form, to an existing CGI. The CGI might be a search engine, or a


= Personal Achievements Checklist =
* [[Form Elements]]


The following are skills you should be able to demonstrate after today's class:
Look at / Practice with:
* Python's [http://docs.python.org/library/urlparse.html urlparse] module
** "Absolutizing" with [http://docs.python.org/library/urlparse.html#urlparse.urljoin urljoin].


* Have installed and be able to use a Code/Text Editor that performs Syntax Coloring on HTML.
(GET vs. POST)
* Be able to move files from your computer to your Piet Zwart web space (or other public web space) using (S)FTP.
* Be able to "hand code" a simple page using <img> tags.
* Understand the terms: URL, HTTP, HTML, tag, and attribute.


* Locate and/or install an Apache web server on your computer for "localhost" use.
some examples of some "back ends":
* Enable a "personal" space on your localhost server (USERDIR).
 
* [[Dump.cgi]]
* [[Print_environ.cgi]]
 
* captcha generators
* [http://www.geuzen.org/female_icons/play/letters.php?msg=o+my+god&image=paris.jpg&font=effusive.ttf&p=240&bg=%23000000&cutout=center female icons writer]
* [http://images.google.be/images?imgsz=small|medium|large|xlarge&imgtype=face&as_st=y&gbv=2&hl=en&safe=off&q=%22Veronica+Lake%22&btnG=Search+Images google face search]
* [http://nag.iap.de/ Net Art Generator] from Cornelia Solfrank
* http://www.network-science.de/ascii/
* http://beast.mongrel.org.uk/cgi-bin/Recognition.pl
* http://public.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php
 
= For Next Week =
* Extend your tech plan -- link to a "first step" -- a first

Latest revision as of 17:58, 20 January 2009

Morning

Review checklist items from last week +

  • Review tag assignment
  • Setting up / Locating a local webserver
  • userdir

Afternoon

You can use the Template.html.

Exercise 1: FormFunction

The idea of this exercise is to create a unique "front end" interface with a form, to an existing CGI. The CGI might be a search engine, or a

Look at / Practice with:

(GET vs. POST)

some examples of some "back ends":

For Next Week

  • Extend your tech plan -- link to a "first step" -- a first
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