Shelby Advanced Topics

Shelby Simmons Advanced Topics

Week 1

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Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 6 Lab Part 1

Week 6 Homework:

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Week 7

Week 7 Lab:

Part one: My username is Shel and I asked "If you could experience watching a movie again as if for the first time, which movie would you pick?".
Part two: I think this is an incredibly small amount of code for such a useful function. I immediately thought of emergency or update events on a website that could forward info to multiple applications for a wider audience.

Week 8 Lab:

  1. The required parameters are "lat", "lon", and "appid".
  2. The optional paramters are "mode", "units", and "lang".
  3. https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat=44.34&lon=10.99&appid={98724t5982}
  4. I think an example for where this API can be used could be an airline to make precautions before a flight by viewing the weather in the regions between take off and landing. Any updated weather information can be trasmitted to their communication towers and the pilots during the flight.

Week 9

Week 9 Lab:

  1. Advantages: Using APIs when connecting to databases has numerous benefits including security, functionality, and flexability. APIs add an extra layer of protection for databases by not allowing users direct access to the database. APIs have the ability to work with numerous applications at a time, cutting down time for users providing a better experience. APIs are flexible by allowing communication between clients, web sever/applications, and databases.
  2. Disadvantages: Because APIs can communicate with multiple sources at a time they can be attacked easier through SQL injections and cross-site scripting attacks by malicious users. APIs may also have compatibility issues if interacting with different versions of software systems which can eventually lead to coding issues and errors.

Week 10

Week 11

Week 11 Lab:

  1. discord.js
  2. Discord Developer Portal
  3. A token is a bot's password that allows it to log into an application, in our example Discord.
  4. The config.js is a file that can store your sensitive data, in our Discord bot example that would be the token, guildID, and clientID. The token must never be given out and by keeping it within the config.js file you're able to utilize the token but utilize it within code functions.
  5. node index.js

Week 11 Homework:

Week11HW

Week 12

Week 12 Homework:

Week12HW

Week 13

Week 13 Lab and Homework:

I haven't made much progress on my projects this week. I cloned a database I've used for a project to use on my Individual Project 1. I am confident I can get a lot done this week for building pages. I started working on a new bot for my Individual Project 2 by adding the config, deploy-commands, and index pages.

Week 14

Week 14 Lab and Homework:

I actually put all my time this week on project 1 and haven't continued further into project 2. For updates on project 1 I have added the core and database files in the config folder, I have a countries folder with read.php file,my main organizations folder with create, org_info, search, update files, shared utilities folder, and a tab folder countaining class object files. I also have the app folder created with add, header, footer, search, and an empty(for just this updated week of course) file. I have to backtrack a little as I realized how confusing having country_id be the name of the column within its own table when comparing the code to our products assignment. So I decided to change those column names and am having to go back and revise completed pages. Otherwise I am still confident I can get this and the other project completed on time.

Week 15

Week 15 Lab:

I would have to say my least favorite part of the REST API was how most of the pages are connected together in some way. The reason why I say this is because any time I had some sort of error I had to dig through multiple pages to see where something could be wrong. For example I had a really hard time with my search bar not responding. First it would state that "No Organizations were found" when I would type in a number into the search bar but any characters would display nothing. Postman would say it was a 503 error which told me I had some sort of syntax error somewhere. The error_logs sent me between three different files, both search.php and my org.php class file. I had to compare arrays, making sure everything that made sense were there, climbed through the tutorial article again to compare pages, climbed through our previous api project, etc. Finally I was able to find the error, I simple added an extra comma to the last item within an array. On the plus side I was able to pound into my head how certain pages and functions worked which is great experience.

Week 15 Homework:

I spent this week finalizing the last bit of my first project, this way I can spend this next week on finishing my remaining two. I completed all my files for my first project including documentation. I had a lot of issues (not only just what was discussed in this week's lab) but I was finally able to persevere. Now to finish my other two.

Week 16