1. IS 118 Introduction to Development Tools Week 1

2. Things to Cover UCID WebCT AFS Visual Basic.net Running PHP

3. UCID The UCID serves as your credentials for many computing services: it is the key to your NJIT Campus Directory entry; it is a login account for many systems; and will authenticate you for the new campus portal Get the UCID from Computing Services Outside in the Hall You will need it to access WebCT and your AFS account More information at: http://directory.njit.edu/readme.html http://directory.njit.edu/readme.html And http://csd.njit.edu/guide/http://csd.njit.edu/guide/

4. WebCT Web Course Tools – is a online course system http://webct.njit.edu We will use it in this course for submitting assignments. Log onto it using your UCID and password

5. AFS Primary academic computing is provided via Highlander AFS, running UNIX. Services include programming, computation, Internet access, graphics, visualization, and many other applications. Each AFS user is given a disk allocation of 125 MB. Personal webpages can be stored under the Highlander AFS system. File management systems such as MySQL and PHP are also available We will use AFS to run our PHP programs – more later

6. Visual Basic.net We will be using this application language later this term Can get it from http://csd.njit.eduhttp://csd.njit.edu This is how:  Click Software  Scroll down and select Student, click “make it so”  Under Browse by Title – select Microsoft Visual Studio.net 2003 – click GO  Click installation instructions from CD or Download and print them – YOU will need them

7. Visual Basic.net continued After printing the instruction – go back to the previous screen and click download Scroll all the way down  I am (select Student)  Department (select Information Systems)  Enter your UCID  Enter your Password  Click submit - this will take a long time After the download follow the instructions you printed to Install Visual Basic.net

8. Running PHP PHP runs in a web browser such as Internet Explorer The code will be put on your AFS account You run it by using the web browser to access/run the code you wrote More Later