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KENT RIDGE DIGITAL LABS - INDUSTRIAL ATTACHMENT

Week THREE (20th July - 24th July 1998)

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Daily Summary of Task / Assignment

Week No. : THREE                 Date : 20/7/98 to 24/7/98

Department/Section attached : KNOWLEDGE LAB

 

Day

Task / Assignment

Monday
Tuesday
  • Install and Explore Visual Basic Source Code & Utilities.
  • Maintain uselink webpage and updated more sites to it.
  • Create link in Research Methods for Microsoft Access and updated it with books and cd-roms used.
  • Search for more sites using WebFerret with the term "Robocup".
  • Update actual project schedule.
  • Found an interesting site name "User Agents". This site contains different interesting links.
  • 2nd meeting with Tralvex Yeap base on the project outline.
  • Registered myself at Bigfoot along with my homepages and personal particulars too.

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  1. Subscribe to newsgroups and participate in them.
  2. Know more about sequential file operations e.g open, close, input and print using Visual Basic 5.0.          (By end of Week 3)
  3. Evaluate and write comments on the 4 tools control libraries' usage and abilities. 2 of which must be chosen to satisfy conditions such as it is easy to use and must work to the user's preference. 
  4. Write a simple program to illustrate what was learned - "WebLinks Validation Program" to validate internet website links within a webpage. (By end of Week 4)
  5. To update homepage with more Robocup sites.
  6. Add/subscribe our homepage to various Search Engines eg. Alta Vista
Wednesday
  • Updated the Research site by adding the appropriate bibliographic citation of the book used.
  • Read the book "Discover Visual Basic 5" and created some programs from it.
  • Did a prototype of the URL Web Validator, just a simple program that writes to a file and then searches the file and display the data within that file.
  • Updated the Project Schedule webpage.
  • Added personal homepage and industrial homepage to more search engines - http://www.hotbot.com/addurl.html (to HotBot only) and http://netannounce.com/freestart.html (20 other search engines).
  • Found another site to add URLs @ MasterWebbers.
  • Learn more about Newsgroups and Mailing lists.
Thursday
  • Search for definition on HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) and FTP (File Transfer Protocol). More sites are placed in the useful links - Others webpage.
  • Found an interesting site - FileDog, a fully automated file transfer program that does everything for you.
  • Search for Visual Basic newsgroups.
  • Subscribe to another mailing list - listserv@peach.ease.lsoft.com for VISUAL BASIC BEGINNERS.
  • Viewed and joined in the Visual Basic Discussion Groups.
  • Keep track of the discussion groups. Search for more related sites.
  • Wrote email to Liason Officer, Mrs Ho-Tan Liang Gek regarding the details of the meeting held on Tuesday.
  • Read Visual Basic book and tried out some programs in Chapter 12 & 14.
Friday
  • Read mails sent by people regarding on Visual Basic.
  • Explore Java script websites and download a few interesting scripts to test out.
  • Added the scripts into some of the webpages e.g index page, appendix.
  • Look at the VB discussion groups.
  • Revise some Visual Basic lessons again to recall what was learned. Also tried out the exercises in Chapter 6 & 7 of the Discover Visual Basic 5 book.
Saturday Company Off
Sunday

Company Off

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The past two weeks were my learning week, to help me prepare for the major project also known as ABBA (Autonomous Bibliography Building Agent). I had learned new knowledge with the Information gathered from various sources and techniques used. In programming, I had gained experience through trial and error when creating the examples on how programs are being executed using their own codes.

In my third week, I basically revised and recapped on everything learnt from the Visual Basic CD-rom  tutorials. To learn this lessons over again allows me to have a better remembrance of what language/code to use and when to use them. At first, I thought that  learning Visual Basic would be much more difficult and stressful. But after three weeks had passed, I felt that it could be pretty easy to learn (as in ABC?) and very user-friendly indeed.

Others things that I have learned after the meeting I had  with my supervisor is that it takes time to learn new things and there is no rush to anything as long as there is determination.

In this week, I learnt something new when I was asked to find out on the definitions of what HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) and FTP (File Transfer Protocol). Within those definitions given, there are several more links that explains other terminologies like protocols,  world wide web, web servers, URL, Java, cookies, IP address, etc. I was also unaware that there are web browsers and servers had verisons. Currently, most of them support HTTP 1.1, which one of the main features is that it supports persistent connections. This means that once a browser connects to a Web server, it can receive multiple files through the same connection. This should improve performance by as much as 20%.

I too found out that FTP is not that simple to understand as just a protocol used on the Internet for sending files. It is defined by RFC 959 (Network Working Group, Request for Comments: 959) published in 1985. It provides facilities for transferring to and from remote computer systems. Usually the user transferring a file needs authority to login and access files on the remote system. The common facility known as anonymous FTP actually works via a special type of public guest account implemented on the remote system.

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Created on 20th July 1998. Last revised 24th July 1998.

Creator : Daniel Chua