CST8256 Mid-Term Details

Theory
Will Take Place In Class, Wednesday, November 7th
Short answer

List of questions, pick a few

Multiple Choice
Practical
Will take place during lab on Friday, November 9th
130 marks, must find and fix 30 for 100%
You will be given a game. Before midterm, will get an email saying how it is supposed to work; in lab, the game will have [...]

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Being a member of MySQL, I received the following e-mail.
I thought I’d share it with you.
MySQL Training Classes coming to Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto!
Thank you for your continued support of MySQL; you are among the supporters of the fastest software adoption ever. We are pleased to announce the following courses available in [...]

Disable the mailto in Adobe Reader helps fix the bug

I found the following link useful in getting rid of the “mailto” in Adobe Reader:
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb07-18.html
-Anna

CST8257 Study Guide

I know it’s late in the game to post this, but I was working on it today and thought I’d post it for the inevitable last minute cramming. Here’s a study guide for CST8257 Midterm I.
Most of the information is from the course slides, course text, Wikipedia, and various other websites.

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I would like to warn you of a bug going around with Adobe Reader.
User opens up .pdf document and sees a whole bunch of weird Javascript code
This is a virus, and it has been going around in Adobe Reader.
Please Go to your Adobe Reader Help menu and update the program (to Adobe version to [...]

Annotated Bibliography Research Tip

Hi all,
To those trying to find periodicals for the upcoming English presentations, look no further than the Ottawa Public Library Databases, which offer periodicals, essays, reviews for FREE.
http://atoz.ebsco.com/titles.asp?id=otpl&sid=134488578&TabID=2
Use your Ottawa Public Library card number to log in.
-Anna

Custom 404 Pages

Here’s an article from Smashing Magazine that breaks down some creative custom 404 pages.
Enjoy!
-Nik

Facebook Developer Toolkit

Hey all,
It looks like Microsoft has launched a partnership with Facebook.
Seeing how a number of you own a Facebook account (as Sean’s question has proven), I thought I’d share this link with you :
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/express/bb510381.aspx for downloading the Facebook Developer Toolkit.
It can be used with Visual Studio 2005. Doesn’t that sound exciting?
I’m definitely downloading this!
-Anna

WP Languages I Assignment 2 If vs. Try/Catch

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Rob also brought up that there’s a built in variable [...]

Still not sure about the basics of C#?

I don’t know about you guys, but I am still having a hard time grasping the basics of C#.
To help me, I found this great article which explains some of the major concepts of C#: http://www.blackwasp.co.uk/ObjectOrientedConcepts.aspx
classes and objects
encapsulation: aka data hiding: hiding the functions of a class so internal operations are hidden for programmer
passing messages: [...]