Sample project report for MCS 170

The following document was written using OpenOffice.org Writer on a Linux computer. You can use any word processor to prepare your report, as long as the report follows the general guidelines for project reports. 

Please be aware that your lab report will not (in general) contain the same sections as this one. Structure your report logically with sections reflecting the theme you choose for your report appropriate to your lab assignment.

The report theme the author chose in this particular assignment was the simplicity of the code needed to accomplish a seemingly complex task.

Linus Apple
MCS-170 Project 0
February 31, 2005

                         Hello Me Web Page

Introduction

  Dynamic web pages are widely used throughout the Internet. In this 
report, we demonstrate how to create a very simple interactive web page 
that queries the user for his or her name and then says "hello". 

  Part 1 of this report describes the HTML code for the interactive web
page and part 2 discusses the testing of the page. Finally, there are 
some concluding remarks.

Part 1: HTML Code

  For our dynamic web page we will use HTML code and JavScript commands. 
As a prototype for the HTML code for this project, I used the basic web 
page we covered in class. This page does not do much - it just displays
the message "Hello World" - but it will be sufficient for our purposes.

   On this basic page, I added two lines of JavaScript code to carry out 
the desired action. First, to prompt the user for their name I used the 
command:
       me = prompt("Enter Your Name:","");
The "prompt" command opens a dialog box with the given string as a prompt 
and an empty textbox for the user to type their reply. Once the user types 
in their reply and hits the "Okay" button, the variable "me" is set to the 
value of this reply string. 

  Next, to have the page say "Hello" I used the following JavaScript command:
       document.write("Hello " + me);
The effect of this command is to have the browser display the words
"Hello" followed by the value of "me", which is the user's name.  

  The complete HTML code for the web page for this project is as 
follows:
	<html>
 	<!-- Example for a sample lab report in MCS 170     -->
 	<!-- This page asks for your name and says hello    -->
 	<!---------------------------------------------------->

	<head>
  	   <title>Hello Me</title>
	</head>

	<body>
  	  <p>
    	    <h1 style = "text-align:center">Hello Me</h1>
  	  </p>

  	  <script type="text/javascript">
     	    me = prompt("Enter Your Name:","");
     	    document.write("Hello " + me);
  	   </script>

	</body>
	</html>
	
Part 2: Testing of the Code

I tested this web page by loading it into a browser and checking that 
it functioned properly. I have attached to this report a printout of 
the web page which shows the correct action of the JavaScript 
commands above.  

Conclusion

Interactive web pages are the life-blood of the Internet. In this report we 
saw how to create a very simple, yet interesting, example of an interactive
web page.