Class 24: Writing HTML

Held Wednesday, October 4, 2000

Summary

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Notes

• I should have a reading on CGI scripts ready by tomorrow evening. I'd like you to try to read it for Friday's class. I'll email the class when it's ready.
• Homework 3 is ready. Start early.
  • I'll take questions next Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
• As you may have seen, the trustees have invited a business consultant to campus tomorrow. I'm one of the faculty meeting with the consultant. As part of the process, I expect him to ask some questions, and I'd like to take a little bit of class time to have you reflect on those questions.
  • What makes Grinnell great?
  • What are our core values?
  • What are we passionate about?
  • What do we do better than anyone else?
• This morning did not go well, so I'll write the lab "on the fly" during class. Sorry.

Overview

• Review: HTML
• Lab: Generating HTML

HTML Review

• Tags
  • Basic tags
• Structure of a document

Lab

1. Write (html-bold string) that, given a string, returns an emboldened version of that string.

2. Write (html-page title body) that builds a page with appropriate header and such.

3. Write (course->html courseinfo) that turns information on a course into valid HTML.

4. Put it all together to generate HTML code for a page on a course or courses.

5. Test your page by copying the HTML into a file (using the Gnotepad editor). Remember that you must put the file in your public_html directory and share the file.

Note: If you'd rather work with people for our dating game, rather than corses, that's okay with me.