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Lecture 1 Course Introduction. MIS 3501, 2014 Spring Jeremy Shafer Department of MIS Fox School of Business Temple University January 23, 2014. Agenda for today. Introductions The class server LAMP and XAMPP HTML Basics HTML Forms HTML Tables Homework #1 assigned Skills assessment.
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Lecture 1Course Introduction MIS 3501, 2014 Spring Jeremy Shafer Department of MIS Fox School of Business Temple University January 23, 2014
Agenda for today • Introductions • The class server • LAMP and XAMPP • HTML Basics • HTML Forms • HTML Tables • Homework #1 assigned • Skills assessment
Introductions • About your instructor • The syllabus • How we learn
The class server • You can access mis3501.temple.edu and create web pages there. • You need to connect using the Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol • Both Fugu (for Mac) and the SSH Client software (for PC) can be downloaded from download.temple.edu. • This server is not accessible from off campus • At the end of each homework assignment, you will be required to upload you work to mis3501.temple.edu • As part of each quiz, I will ask you to provide the URL to your work on the MIS3501 server. PHP Programming with MySQL, 2nd Edition
LAMP and XAMPP • LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP • XAMPP is short for X (multiple operating systems), Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Perl. • Installation instructions for XAMPP can be found on the class website.
HTML Basics • HTML: HyperText Markup Language • Language for displaying web pages • Consists of tags and content; content is enclosed tags • Why we do we need to know HTML? • To build a foundation for PHP programming • PHP is embedded in HTML • Results of PHP are always returned in HTML format
HTML Basics • Basic structure of an HTML document • <!DOCTYPE html> • <html>...</html> • <head>...</head> • <body>...</body> • Tags are nested inside each other
HTML Basics • Tag surrounds content and apply meaning to it • <p>...</p> • <div> … </div> • <h1>...</h1> • <br> • <hr> • <a> … </a>
More HTML • Basics • Tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/html • Quick list: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_quick.asp • HTML forms • http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp • http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_label.asp • HTML tables • http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp
Next steps • SSH Tutorial • Homework #1 assigned