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KENT RIDGE DIGITAL LABS - INDUSTRIAL ATTACHMENT

Week FouR (27th July - 31st July 1998)

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Daily Summary of Task / Assignment

Week No. : FOUR                 Date : 27/7/98 to 31/7/98

Department/Section attached : KNOWLEDGE LAB

 

Day

Task / Assignment

Monday
  • Create week 4's task / assignment webpage.
  • Download the application programs (internet VB tools) sent to us under Directory setup.new.
  • Examine the functions/components in each of the tools.
  • Found that the current application program for Crescent Internet Toolpak was out of date (3.01) and went to download a newer trial version (4.0) @ http://crescent.progress.com/n-download.html
  • Tried out every of the components within the 3 different programs - Crescent Internet Toolpak, Distinct VIT FTP & TCP/IP and IP*Works! Visual Basic Edition, concentrating on the two major functions like FTP and HTTP.
  • Briefly analyze the pros and cons of each of the internet tools.
  • Attended a talk and video presentation by Mr Tralvex Yeap  on "Prevailing technologies for Intelligent Systems: Neural Networks" at the Third Country Training Programme (TCTP) for MIS delegates. (1hr)
  • Also followed by a seminar on "Applications in Neural Networks" by a Japanese speaker, Dr. T. Ohira. (1hr 15 mins)
Tuesday
  • Read VB mailing list sent to personal account.
  • Gather information on first internet VB tool from "Crescent Division of ProgressSoftware".
  • Test out Crescent Internet's FTP and HTTP components again and evaluated on them.
  • Found that both are suitable and very user-friendly (easy to use). Help guide is also provided.
  • Locate second internet VB tool website - "Distinct VIT (Visual Internet Toolkit)" and gather information from there.
  • Test out Distinct VIT's FTP Client and Server. Found that it's too difficult to use and that there is no HTTP component provided.
  • Locate final internet VB tool website - "IP*Works! Visual Basic Edition". Look for relevant information about the tool.
  • Evaluated the FTP and HTTP component. Found that both are more user-friendly than the first tool but due to the coding problems, the application cannot work and has to end halfway.
  • Print out Source code of Crescent Internet Websearch to analyze their method of searching the web.
  • Received KRDL's email id and password. Re-subscribe VB mailing list to the new email account - danchua@krdl.org.sg.
Wednesday
  • Add a new link in the ABBA webpage under Research Methods on the Evaluation Results of the Internet VB tools.
  • Created Main page of evaluation results.
  • Update Research Methods webpage and create links to evaluation results page.
  • Scan and read through the Visual Basic Mailing List mails from e-mail account.
  • Search and download from the internet for more animated gifs, backgrounds, lines, etc.
  • Examine printed visual basic codes to determine how it works / operates together with the internet to retrieve the URLs.
  • Edit Project Schedule webpage due to some errors and make some changes to it like the background and the table properties.
Thursday
Friday
  • Make changes to ABBA webpage to add a link for a no-frame Industrial Webpage. Reasons for creating this new link for no frames is to allow other websurfers who do not like using frames to browse through the articles easily.
  • Created a second main page of ABBA webpage with no frames at all.
  • Created Organization Background and Useful Links without frames.
  • Created Research Methods and  Appendix webpages to without a title frame.
  • Re-save all the rest of the internal links to link to the webpages without frames like the Evaluation of Internet Tools.
Saturday Company Off
Sunday

Company Off

  • Write weekly summary of task / assignment.

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Weekly Summary of Task / Assignment

A week of research and analysis, on the three different Internet Visual Basic tools with components such as FTP, HTTP and others had finally passed. The knowledge obtained this week was fascinating as I never knew that there were such applications wrote out from Visual Basic that could actually be quite similar to those found in our Windows 95/98.

With that, it actually made me very interested to find out more about them and I had gone through all three websites - Crescent Division of Progress Software, Distinct Corporation : Intranet and Interent Development Tools and devSoft Inc. These sites mainly develop products relating to programming languages (all three includes Visual Basic products), to be sold as well as some demos to be downloaded for interested parties to test or give it a try.

After my evaluation during the first four days of the week, I had found out that each one of the Internet Tools has their own advantages and disadvantages which makes it very difficult to decide which one to choose. However, with the two main criteria given to me by my supervisor, Mr Tralvex Yeap, which are - 1. The program must be easy to use (user-friendly) and 2. the program must work (without any errors or stoppage halfway). With this, my fields are being narrowed down to only one possible answer, which was to use the Crescent Internet Toolpak 4.0.

The components found in this Toolpak varies and there are so many types you can choose to use and learn from. With much enthusiasm, I had even printed one of the source code from the program to take a look at how it actually works. When I looked at these codes, I felt that they were simply too difficult for me to understand and could not locate where each code is being connected to. This had definitely left me with a terrible headache.

Other task that I had found interest in this week was the session or seminar and talk on "Neural Networks" that Indra and I attended on Monday. This topic struck me deep into my mind and I think that this is a really exciting and challenging topic to look into. If given the chance next time in the future, I would probably like to give a hand or help in our ways to promote this topic which is related to Artifcial Intelligence.

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Created on 31st July 1998. Last revised 3rd August 1998.

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