Transcript INT213 – Fall 2006

INT213
Active Server Pages
using
Visual Basic Scripting
Tim McKenna
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INT213 –
Active Server Pages using VBScript
1. What is ASP, IIS and VBScript?
2. Taking the course
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Test (1), quizzes (5), labs (10)
Assignments (4)
Textbook & portable hard drive
Minimum course requirements
Marks-ism
3. How to succeed
INT213 –
Active Server Pages using VBScript
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why take this course?
program for yourself and users.
Not application programming.
DAT702 – Intro to DB for administrators
automate administration tasks
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skills translate to all other scripting
languages and to your future Windows and
UNIX scripting courses
all corporate users need a sign on script!
ASP & IIS
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ASP = Active Server Pages
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Active – not just static HTML, pages with logic to
process variable data and generate HTML
Server – process Active pages' logic, interact with
DB and access server resources, e.g. email
IIS = Internet Information Server
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Windows web page server and manager
receives ASP file request, processes the page,
sends resulting HTML to the client's browser.
VBScript – Visual Basic Script
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VBScript
– logic stored in ASP files, processed by IIS
scripting language derived from Visual Basic
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Relatively easy-to-use
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Lightweight, interpreted programming language
easier than ASP.NET or JScript or JavaScript or
Perl or Ruby-on-Rails or PHP or C or Java or …
VB usually on Microsoft platforms only
Connects to databases using SQL
(Structured Query Language)
VBScript – Visual Basic Script
Sample script to display numbers from 1 to 10:
<% 'loop ten times, output counter
For count = 1 to 10
if (count <= 5) then
Response.write "<br>small: "
else
Response.write "<p><b>BIG: </b>"
end if
Response.write count
Next
%>
INT213 evaluation
Labs
10 labs for 10 marks (worth a lot more than 1 mark each)
100% late penalty after due date but most labs require previous lab
must be demonstrated in lab period
Tests & Quizzes
1 midterm test worth 20%. Aid: one page of handwritten notes
5 quizzes worth 3% each. No aids.
Quiz and Test dates will be announced on the web page.
Assignments
4 assignments worth 25% (5 + 5 + 5 + 10)
Final Exam
worth 30%
minimum performance is 55%
Studies have been done: Ritalin will not help.
Aid: one page of handwritten notes
See course outline's Promotion Policy
INT213 evaluation
Career Strategy:
Be good enough to be paid to do it.
"An expert is a person who has made
all the mistakes that can be made in a
narrow field." – Neils Bohr
Learning: class, lab, program & debug
Knowing: the project plan budgets
two hours for tests and exams. Done
out of your head, not with a computer.
Business evaluation
Good enough to be paid to do it.
i.e. you provide value
Test, Quiz or Exam frequency is...?
When paid in dollars,
expected performance is...?
INT213 textbook
Teach Yourself
Active Server Pages 3.0
in 21 Days
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by Mitchell and Atkinson
No longer carried by bookstore. Can find
used or online for those who like paper.
Available at http://library.senecacollege.ca/
(search for title in eBooks)
Linked on course page
Do I need the textbook?
Taking a course without reading the
textbook is like watching TV with the
sound off:
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you know who confronted who
but not why
INT213 hard drive recommended
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YOU should have A PORTABLE HARD DRIVE in a
removable tray or a laptop
 Avoid tweaking lab computers to run IIS
 Lab PCs forget your work on shutdown/restart.
 Lab PCs remember your work after log off.
Its got to have Windows Professional or Server on it.
 non-current “home” versions will not run IIS
Taking WIN210? You will install Server there.
 create a dual boot drive
 keep this course separate from WIN210
INT213 development tools
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lab computers have Notepad++
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TextPad is an optional editor
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Open source
Shareware
better support for ASP when configured
using my recommendations
browser to run ASP: use Firefox
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Chrome is all Googly but has quirks.
IIS and lab computers
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Internal drives support IIS
Start IIS service
(icon somewhere on desktop)
Note that c:\Inetpub\wwwroot cleared
on user login
backup before you leave
(zip your files and email to yourself)
Succeeding in INT213
Come to class.
Take notes.
Read the book.
Do the labs.
Do it each week.
You can take this course
as many times as you like.