Module 8 - CST 336

Overall, I really enjoyed the content of this course and what we learned throughout our 8 weeks. However, sometimes I did feel that the explanations and instructions for assignments were somewhat vague and feedback was at times unhelpful. I still enjoyed the course and feel that I have learned quite a bit. I look forward to utilizing the knowledge I have gained in this program in order to design my own websites in the near future.

Module 7 - CST 336

This week we began our foray into using AJAX to update a webpage while we are still viewing it, without reloading the entire page. It was interesting to use this in both our lab and assignment this week to update the pages we were viewing. I am somewhat amazed how quickly this course has gone by. It feels like such a short time ago when we first started learning CSS and yet we have covered many different topics in this short time. I will be preparing for the final in the next week by studying all that we have reviewed in the past few weeks.

Module 6 - CST 336

This week we began learning how to use jQuery and JavaScript in our webpages. It was interesting to create functions during the lab portion of this week's assignments. Building the quiz for our lab this week was both interesting and enjoyable. I also enjoyed taking the practice quiz in preparation for our final test. Once I get my scores back from the test I will have somewhat of a better idea of what I will need to study in preparation for our final. This course seems to have gone by rather quickly as we are already on week 6. It has been quite enjoyable thus far to cover so much material in this relatively short amount of time.

Module 5 - CST 336

This week was quite interesting. We we're able to continue working with our teammates on the group project where we created tables on movies and directors and made php sites for sorting, viewing, adding, modifying or deleting these entries. We also learned about php sessions and utilized them in our lab. Sessions seem to be very useful as they can be used to create the all important login page, and handle the information securely.

Module 4 - CST 336

This week we began working with mySQL. While the lessons for how to properly use the language were relatively straightforward, I had a little difficulty getting the phpmyadmin hosting site working properly and setting up my work for the assignments. Otherwise it was an interesting week with relatively straightforward coursework. I enjoyed learning about handling various databases by adding to, editing, creating and deleting entries as well as learning how to use the hosting website. The lab was very interesting and using the NFL databases and created a fourth one for user entries was really enjoyable. I look forward to the next week's work and am excited to continue working on the group project.

Module 3 - CST 336

This week we continued our foray into PHP and discussed some of the ways of handling input from end users. It was interesting to see how $_GET and $_POST worked and were used to handle the input differently. We also went over arrays in PHP and utilized them and some built-in functions to make a page which would manipulate some input on a previous page. It was fairly open to what exactly we could do so I did a few operations with changing a string to an array and manipulating it as well as playing around with a set of numbers provided by the user. Overall it was an interesting week that covered some useful topics, and I look forward to the next assignments.

Module 2 - CST 336

This week was very interesting. We did not utilize much from the previous week’s lesson other than hosting our new assignment pages and adding a few lines of css styling to give our projects some flavor. It was quite interesting to learn about PHP, it seems to be a relatively straightforward language and seems easier to learn. I used it to create two pages, assignment 2 and lab 2 for my course portfolio which I linked to from my homepage. For my assignment, which we were given some creative freedom on, I created a grid that would randomly print out numbers check if they were prime or composite and collect the number of primes and composites, it was similar to the lab but I needed another for loop to check whether the number was prime or not and I also threw in something special for a lucky number.