Weekly Summary of Task / Assignment

The Fourteenth Week is my final week of submitting up all my tasks/assignments as well as the second last week to my Industrial Attachment here at Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL).

As I had completed one out of the two major tasks assigned which was the report on "Issues surrounding the Building of an Autonomous Bibliography Building Agent", I worked with full concentration on the second tasks - the Web Validator.

In this week, I worked on the last two requirements left of the Web Validator. They are to display the error log and to append a *BAD* to the bad hyperlinks in the HTML file. I managed to display the error log into a listbox when the user clicks on a command button. The error log will then display the following lines:

Each time the program validates a URL, it shaill be displayed at marking no. 1. The next line at no. 2, the program will display the similar line above as well as retrieve the current date and time. At no. 3, This will display the number if bad hyperlinks if there are any available, else the space will be left empty.

The next requirement was not included into the Web Validator as I could not figure out how to append the string into the HTML file. However, I have done a simple program which can retrieve the text *BAD* and append next to a string of words but the technique could not be applied to "WebVat". The problem faced here was probably due to the unfamiliarity with the commands used in Visual Basic.

  I managed to complete most of the requirements given by the end of the week and left out the following two, which are:

• appending of the *BAD* string and the settings of a proxy file

On overall, I am quite satisfied with my "WebVat" but could improve better if I had more interest in programming as well as more guidance given. As next week would be my last Industrial Attachment week, I will be working on my Attachment report to be completed by 16th October 1998.