Mr. Eliot’s Blog

On Wednesday, March 5th, I will be attending a teacher conference in Los Angeles. On that day, Mr. Pence will be your guest teacher. Mr. Pence taught Biology and Physiology here at El Dorado for many years. Here’s what each class should be doing while I’m gone:

• Keyboarding: Special Marks Lesson #2
• AP Java: Finish Mergesort and/or START Quicksort
• Adv. Web: Finish AS14, Hangman Game
• Web Design: Continue table / Animated GIF

This assignment will be our last working in depth with PHP. Most of the assignment is written for you, but you have to fix much of the MySQL code, which is missing. Check out my working version HERE.

I am home getting better (hopefully).  I hope you all have a great day.  I should be back on Thursday.

KEYBOARDING:  Today, you have two 10 minute typing tests.  Use the extra time to help get caught up, for those of you that are behind.  The NEW tests you should take are “The Tale Of Peter Rabbit” first and “Traffic lights have drivers playing the waiting game” second from the LA Times.

JAVA:  Continue with AS16.

ADV WEB:  Start your first MySQL assignment.  Remember that the assignment handout has some nice sample code that should help you modify your Guestbook assignment to MySQL.

WEB DESIGN:  Continue work on Assignment 02, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.  Focus on getting the question pages completed.  On Thursday,  we will work on the wrong answer page, etc.

Thanks everyone,
Mr. Eliot

This assignment focuses on arrays and using them with files. In particular, the PHP implode() and explode() functions which are used to store array data in files. Check out my version of the assignment HERE.

For our next assignment, we will create a simple guestbook using a text file. The guestbook will be a form that submits to itself. The key to this assignment is the ORDER that operations are completed. First the file should be written, then read, and then the entry form is displayed for NEW guestbook entries. Check out my version of the assignment HERE.  You can also see how the data file looks HERE.

Ok, this is one of our big lessons. In this assignment, we learn how web browsers know who you are. Browsers use cookies and sessions to maintain personalized settings AND to maintain the security of your login to a web site. Check out my version of Assignment 10a HERE.

Hello fine students,

I will see you again on Monday. Today, I am in Monterey at a Technology Conference. Mr Stoecklein (pronounced Stek-Line) will be our guest teacher for today.

• WEB DESIGN: Continue with your STYLE SHEETS assignment. This assignment will be due Tuesday or Wednesday next week. Don’t forget to upload all 5 pages to your website AND link them so I can grade them.
• AP JAVA: We will be finishing this assignment probably Monday or Tuesday next week. If you finish early, you may browse the internet from your assigned seat.
• ADV. WEB DESIGN: Everyone should still be working on the assignment. Nobody should be playing games online since I am not here to OK your assignment upload and check your CSS and XHTML validation.
• KEYBOARDING: In the book, please work on Ex C-2 to Ex C-7. After that, create and UPLOAD your .ZIP file for this week. Include everything we did this week INCLUDING TODAY’S WORK. When finished, browse online from your assigned seat.

Have a great weekend everyone. Web Design students, I hope to grade the GIMP assignment this weekend

Sticky forms are forms that submit to themselves until all data entered by the user is correct. At that point, they give a confirmation message that the form was correct and usually send a confirmation email. Check out my version of AS09 HERE.

On Friday, November 30th, I will be presenting at the “Digital Immigrants / Digital Natives” Technology Conference in Monterey, CA.  Former El Dorado Teacher Of The Year Mr. Stoecklein (pronounced stek-line) will be your teacher on that day.  Please welcome him as our guest

Sorry 3rd period students! I forgot to mention that I was going to be gone today to a meeting at the district office from 8am to 11am. We’ll do the new seating chart tomorrow.