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Quotebook Online
Feb. 28th, 2006 10:45 pmI shoved Whitney off watching Morse on my computer so that I could experiment with some introductory PHP coding this evening, after getting a database set up on Wired. I felt it rather embarrassing that I had spent four years in a computer science degree and never touched the language at all - all actual teaching of coding seems to stop after the end of second year.
Once you know one computer language you've got a fairly decent grounding in many of them, and PHP wasn't difficult to pick up. Once I had got a simple set of code to compile (and begun to remember that all variables have to be prefixed by a string symbol for some reason), it was fairly easy to adapt some database connection code to my needs.
And for an introductory project, I chose to rework the Quotebook. The actual book, which I've had since first year, now has five pages left and is looking a little battered. The text version replaced it adequately enough, but such a simple database lent itself very well to my experiments. So the Quotebook Online is now up on my webspace, featuring three viewing methods of various degrees of usefulness. Many of them are in-jokes that very few of the people that still read this journal will understand, and it's making me come over all nostalgic copying them all out again.
See tomorrow for slightly more, well, exciting news.
Once you know one computer language you've got a fairly decent grounding in many of them, and PHP wasn't difficult to pick up. Once I had got a simple set of code to compile (and begun to remember that all variables have to be prefixed by a string symbol for some reason), it was fairly easy to adapt some database connection code to my needs.
And for an introductory project, I chose to rework the Quotebook. The actual book, which I've had since first year, now has five pages left and is looking a little battered. The text version replaced it adequately enough, but such a simple database lent itself very well to my experiments. So the Quotebook Online is now up on my webspace, featuring three viewing methods of various degrees of usefulness. Many of them are in-jokes that very few of the people that still read this journal will understand, and it's making me come over all nostalgic copying them all out again.
See tomorrow for slightly more, well, exciting news.
