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IS 118 Introduction to Development Tools. Week 1. Things to Cover. UCID WebCT AFS Visual Basic.net Running PHP. UCID.
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Things to Cover • UCID • WebCT • AFS • Visual Basic.net • Running PHP
UCID • The UCID serves as your credentials for many computing services: it is the key to your NJIT Campus Directory entry; it is a login account for many systems; and will authenticate you for the new campus portal • Get the UCID from Computing Services Outside in the Hall • You will need it to access WebCT and your AFS account • More information at: http://directory.njit.edu/readme.html • And http://csd.njit.edu/guide/
WebCT • Web Course Tools – is a online course system • http://webct.njit.edu • We will use it in this course for submitting assignments. • Log onto it using your UCID and password
AFS • Primary academic computing is provided via Highlander AFS, running UNIX. Services include programming, computation, Internet access, graphics, visualization, and many other applications. Each AFS user is given a disk allocation of 125 MB. Personal webpages can be stored under the Highlander AFS system. File management systems such as MySQL and PHP are also available • We will use AFS to run our PHP programs – more later
Visual Basic.net • We will be using this application language later this term • Can get it from http://csd.njit.edu • This is how: • Click Software • Scroll down and select Student, click “make it so” • Under Browse by Title – select Microsoft Visual Studio.net 2003 – click GO • Click installation instructions from CD or Download and print them – YOU will need them
Visual Basic.net continued • After printing the instruction – go back to the previous screen and click download • Scroll all the way down • I am (select Student) • Department (select Information Systems) • Enter your UCID • Enter your Password • Click submit - this will take a long time • After the download follow the instructions you printed to Install Visual Basic.net
Running PHP • PHP runs in a web browser such as Internet Explorer • The code will be put on your AFS account • You run it by using the web browser to access/run the code you wrote • More Later