2009 202

Morning

Review checklist items from last week +

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

Afternoon

Exercise 1: Form Fronts

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

• Form Elements

Look at / Practice with:

• Python's urlparse module
  • "Absolutizing" with urljoin.

(GET vs. POST)

some examples of some "back ends":

• Dump.cgi
• Print_environ.cgi

• captcha generators
• female icons writer
• google face search
• 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

Reading choice:

• Xanadu, Network Culture, and Beyond from Howard Rheingold's Tools for Thought (online edition)

or

• http://www.scribd.com/doc/454074/A-File-Structure-for-the-Complex-The-Changing-And-the-Indeterminate