Week Eleven

Forms are the basis of much of the interactivity on the web. They provide a way for visitors to a website to provide feedback. They act as password entries. They can be used to submit assignments. All the commerce on the web depends on forms.

The objective of this week is to gain an understanding of what forms can do and how they accomplish various tasks. When you have completed Project 3, step 3, you will have designed a nice looking form, but it will not actually work. That's because we need a bit of other programming to process the data submitted by forms. (You will learn about that in the readings for the week.) I am investigating how complicated it would be to set that up on cis1, and will let you know what I discover. Even if I cannot get you access to the cgi files, when we get to JavaScript in a couple of weeks, you will get a taste of actually making the web work.

Read

  1. Read about forms at W3schools Make sure you work with the examples at the end of the reading at W3schools. There are eleven, beginning with those under the heading of: More Examples.
  2. W3schools gives you a quick overview and a chance to play with the code a bit. This tutorial on forms at EchoEcho.com is more through and ends with a quiz! Work your way through the tutorial and take the quiz.

Project Three: forms

Complete step 3 for Project Three

Discuss

Participate in Discussion Question Four

Additional optional readings and resources:

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