Fall Semester 2011

Adrian's Daily Office Hours
Fri-Fri Dec 02-09
Here's the final project as a JSP as developed in class:

Thu Dec 01
Let's start with this: 

 ... ---+--- $CATALINA_HOME ---+--- webapps ---+--- chat ---+--- WEB-INF ---+--- classes ---+--- Chat.java 
        |                      |               |            |               |               |
        |                      |               |            |               +--- lib        +--- ChatServlet.java 
       ...                    ...             ...           |               |
                                                            |               +--- web.xml
                                                            | 
                                                            +--- ChatApplet.java 
                                                            |  
                                                            +--- HttpMessage.java
Here are some notes supporting the above:

Last time we did this: 

$CATALINA_HOME --+-- webapps --+-- squash --+-- WEB-INF --+-- classes --+-- One.java
                 |             |            |             |
                 |             |            |             +-- lib 
                 |             |            |             | 
                 |             |            |             +--- web.xml
                 |             |            |
                 |             |            +-- one.html

                 |             |            |
                 |             |            +-- index.html
                 |             | 
                 |             +-- ROOT --+-- WEB-INF ... 
                 +-- bin                  | 
                 |                        +-- index.html 
                 +-- conf                 
                 |                         
                 +-- logs
                 |
                 ...

Tue Nov 29
Final Project for this class:

  • watch the videolectures, come to class, read the posted notes
  • implement a program place it in Tomcat so it behaves like this
  • write down a detailed description of a solution to this problem

Thu Nov 24
Lecture and lab notes next week in videolecture format.

Please use your network ID to authenticate, let me know if your username/password don't work.

Tue Nov 22
Today in class we will review this diagram.

Notes as written in class.

Fri Nov 18
Today in lab we will start with this.

We might also, in fact, start with this.

Wed Nov 16
Renyuan Zhang asked the purpose and context of what we did in class yesterday.

He also asked for some references which I am hereby providing:

Tue Nov 15
Today in class we will install Tomcat.

Here's how the process will go (as described in Spring 2011 in C212).

We will need to provide specific port numbers for everyone.

That will be our attendace for the day: 

* wonderm   11500 11550
* mlwatt    11501 11551
* amblong   11502 11552
* jujmart   11503 11553
* colrice   11504 11554
* mj82      11505 11555
* kkaerich  11506 11556
* iankrot   11507 11557
* dlaymon   11508 11558
* thochris  11509 11559
* brpheish  11510 11560
* ohh       11511 11561
* addoyle   11512 11562
* ksprouls  11513 11563
* clark220  11514 11564
* amaetroy  11515 11565
* rosdurki  11516 11566
* kelnadam  11517 11567
  jfagiano  11518 11568
* amcfetri  11519 11569
* davtstew  11520 11570
* brstarr   11521 11571
* nitperez  11522 11572
* renzhang  11523 11573
* mengqi    11524 11574
* gsnee     11525 11575
  rschadha  11526 11576
* tnevitt   11527 11577
* kmnacke   11528 11578
........  11529 11579
........  11530 11580
........  11531 11581
........  11532 11582
........  11533 11583
........  11534 11584
........  11535 11585
Here's the content of ~/.bash_profile for Dave: 
-bash-4.1$ cat ~/.bash_profile
EDITOR=pico
export EDITOR

export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/bin
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$HOME/lib/python2.6/site-packages

JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-sun.x86_64
export JAVA_HOME

CATALINA_HOME=/u/davtstew/apache-tomcat-5.5.17
export CATALINA_HOME

CLASSPATH=.:$CATALINA_HOME/common/lib/servlet-api.jar
export CLASSPATH
-bash-4.1$

Tue Nov 08
I am in England to make a presentation at a conference returning Sunday.

Jason Yoder with help from Mike Bestvina will teach the class (Tue/Thu/Fri) using the posted notes.

The conference is the 10th European Conference on e-Learning and is held at the Univ. of Brighton.

Wed Nov 02
For tomorrow please prepare Stars.java posted as template in Class Notes.

Tue Nov 01
Here are the grades after the first three lectures/labs.

Authenticate with your IUB network ID (as when you log into the STC machines) and choose A202-A290.

Tue Oct 25
A290/A590 Java starts today, here are the first day's notes.

Sat Oct 15
This is a summary of what we did in lab yesterday.

Thu-Fri Oct 13-14
Lecture notes for the lecture and lab at the end of this week.

Tue Oct 11
Today in class we will start with this interactive activity .

Your websites need to have:

  • an index.html with a picture and your name and links to useful materials
  • a protected folder
  • five documents in the protected folder summarizing your knowledge of Apache, Unix, HTML, MySQL, PHP, CakePHP, Django and anything else

Fri Oct 07
Script to be used in lab and lecture.

Thu Oct 06
These are the notes as we wrote them today in class.

Tue Oct 04
Review of basic CGI/Python development.

Quick review of Python.

Review of basic program development in Python.

Python/CGI library documentation.

Sample development of same program in CGI/Python.

Here's the same but using PHP.

Here's a CGI/Python program that keeps state on the server-side.

Mon Oct 03
Instructions for installing:

Here are two exercises for us to practice what we learned last week:

After you install your MySQL server:

  1. create a user,
  2. a database (accessible by the user)
  3. and populate it with some data.

    Then try these:

  4. a Python program,
  5. a Perl program,
  6. and a PHP program

Finally we need to discuss this.

The above document is the basis for the following development.

The constituents of that example:

MySQL table set up for the client side program: 

create table hwFour (
   session_id  char(8)       primary key,
   message     varchar(240)             ,
   questions   varchar(180)             ,
   correct     int                      ,
   total       int                      ,
   anskey      varchar(24)              ,
   modified    timestamp 
);
Here's what this example would be without those tools.

(Here's a more colorized version of the above document.)

Thu Sep 29
What is MySQL good for?

Notes as we wrote them in class...

Tue Sep 27
Notes as we wrote them in class today.

Fri Sep 23
Today we started a Wiki in OnCourse A202. All present to the lab were added.

Everybody in the class will be added by Sat pm, so we can work on it together.

Thu Sep 22
Here are the notes from Thursday's class.

Wed Sep 21
Stephen came to office hours today and this is what we discussed.

Later on Amber and Yang also came and we worked out this.

Tue Sep 20
This week we discuss implementing a program like this in CGI/Python and PHP.

What's Due? has the minute paper for today.

Here's the link to today's class notes as written in class.

Fri Sep 16
Lab notes as we wrote them in class today.

Thu Sep 15
Notes as we will write them in class today.

Wed Sep 14
Thanks to Kelsey who pointed out this.

She used lsof (try man lsof) as follows:

  • first she moved (mv) her mysql folder to asdf (randomly chosen name)
  • she tried rm -rf asdf and that removed almost everything
  • there was one file .nfs00000000402c4c7600000b4d that wouldn't go away
  • she ran lsof | grep kelnadam | grep nfs00000000402c4c7600000b4d to find out what process(es) have that file open
  • she identified the process ids and ran kill on them: kill 1145 1147 1148 1149 1150 1151 7207
  • she was then able to remove the folder (asdf)

Tue Sep 13
Notes for Tue will include CakePHP installation and exercise (Project Three).

Mon Sep 12
Class Notes has changed to include new MySQL/PHP installation steps.

Sat Sep 10
The MySQL problem has been fixed, new notes to be posted shortly.

Fri Sep 09
Today in lab we will discuss programming in CGI/Python and PHP.

Links to

Whatever we do in class today will be written down and made available in real time here.

Thu Sep 08
Today in class we will make use of this set of notes.

Whatever we do will be written down and will be made available in real time here.

Tue Sep 06
Here's the list of students and ports for this class.

Mon Sep 05
Labor Day today, classes don't meet and offices are closed.

In class tomorrow (and later in the week) we install MySQL and PHP.

Fri Sep 02
Appointments script is now up and running.

Thu Sep 01
Today in class we will go over this material.

Apache installation steps, some notes from a while ago.

Mon Aug 29
Fall semester starts.

Updated by Adrian German for A202/A598/A290/A590