I have been trying to do my practicals for my Internet EC Programming unit. My lecturer/lab teacher had a heart attack and we had missed 3 weeks of class. Didn’t quite grasp the concept of DOM (Document Object Model) and CGI (Computer Gateway Interface) until today when I went through lots of books and online research. What a good thing wikipedia exists… made my life easier even though one of my past lecturers states that it is not a reliable source so cannot be used as a reference because anyone could write in it.
The whole night I was trying to install 3 software programs that I needed to make my practicals work. It took an hour to get all the programs I needed to download:
- jdk
- Tomcat webserver
- Apache Ant
I found the names so bizarre. Ants and Tomcats? Did insects and furry animals species made names sexier or some what? *Sarcasm intended* None the less I followed the instructions given in the practical worksheet and I almost pulled all my hair out. There were certain areas that were ridiculously vague. For example instruction 1.1.5 stated:
Create a working folder c:c\c3106 and copy auto3106.bat to this folder
I re-read the instruction 4 times and I was thinking to myself, where in the world am I to get this auto3106.bat file from. It’s a batch file that does not exist anywhere because it is suppose to be given to students. How convenient that no one even bothered posting it up on the school online system. Bugga so I typed one all by myself and I am very proud of the final product since I have never done it before. I guess there’s a first time for everything right?
It required me to do lots of reading of documentation and playing for another hour to see if I could get the batch file running without any errors. My auto3106.bat at the end of the day looked like this:
set ANT_HOME=c:\apache-ant-1.6.2
set JAVA_HOME=c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_12
set CATALINA_HOME=c:\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28
set PATH=%CATALINA_HOME%\bin;%ANT_HOME%\bin
Did I tell you it took me an hour to write 4 lines? *Grins* I could not feel any dumber… I think this tops it all. *Rolls Eyes*
you coulda written it backwards and i would not have guessed anything was wrong!
foreign language!
hahaha It still looks foreign to me though and this is what I am specialising in… aahahha I guess people know who not to call in the IT industry… MwahAhah *CHOKES*