INDUSTRIAL ATTACHMENT AT KENT RIDGE DIGITAL LABS

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Daily Task/Assignment

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(20th July 1998 - 26th July 1998)

Department attached to : Knowledge Labs

 

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Day

Date

Task / Assignment

Monday

200798

  • Create week 3 summary log page and update week 2's weekly summary page.
  • Add in all the daily & weekly webpages template into the homepage.
  • Explore search results of Robocup sites searched using WebFerret.
  • Recite a few of the bibliographic citations of the author's works found in the Robocup webpage.
  • Update and maintain webpages with counters and guestbooks.
  • Change location of Industrial Attachment's homepage to http://www.fortunecity.com/underworld/virtua/651/ due to some problems with the previous site. (includes uploading)
  • Submitted the webpage to 6 major search engines - http://www.fortunecity.com/registered/autosubmitt.html.
Tuesday

210798

  • 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

220798

  • 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

230798

  • 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 - [email protected] 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

240798

  • 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

250798

Company Off
Sunday

260798

Company Off

  • Wrote weekly summary of task / assignment.

 

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