Assignment 1

The main purpose of the assignment was not so much the PHP code - it was opening, registering an account on and successfully using the web server. You have learned much more than the few lines of code you had to write. So even if you got that code from a buddy of yours, you had to do the site yourself, so a successful site counted the most in this assignment.

I sometimes have to wonder if some students bother to read instructions? The assignment instructions are clear - create an index.php page. Send an email to..include the URL and code...submit a copy via myUnisa. ..visit your web site at least once a month else it is automatically deleted... . Yet I received about 40% myUnisa submissions with no corresponding email to me. They cannot all be lost in virtuality....? Or there is not a submission through myUnisa. Or your web site has been deleted (I assume) because you cannot maintain it. Or you want to submit your portfolio via Unsia when you must not. Stuff like that kept me busy for hours.

Note you do not get the assignment back - this is a portfolio (you keep on adding to it) and the only reason you submitted it via myUnisa is to get it registered on their system. I have sent a few scripts back though. In general, if you only sent me code with no site, you immediately lost 50% or more marks, depending on what the rest of your code looked like.

You had to use PHP to echo the information, as well as a PHP function to generate today's date (it is covered in the tutorial in section 11), so just printing the date you completed the assignment (or read the tut letter!) is not what was asked! There are various ways to have done it, all correct.

Language: PHP
    $name = "John";
    $surname = "Doe";
    $student_number = "12345678";
 
    echo "Name : $name";
    echo "Surname : $surname";
    echo "Student number : $student_number";
    echo date("d-m-Y");
// or simply
 
  echo "John";
    echo "Doe";
    echo "12345678";
    echo date("d-m-Y");

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Hello Mac, the first codes that were submitted for assignment 1, were from FWHA which was later discovered that their servers are not reliable. We opted for other webhosting sites which made us not to focus on the FWHA anymore. Please consider the codes sent to you regardless of the existence of the websites.

A posted elsewhere in this forum, you could have used any service you wanted. See, my comment about students not reading communication is valid

I only got 60% for this assignment. Don't know what i did wrong.
Are you (Mr. Mac) going to send back all of the students work? Just out of curiosity because I don't know where I made my mistake.

Melissa

By the look of things, Mr Mac is not easily impressed. I think we have a lot to do in order for him to give us distinctions. I am Scared

Hi Mac, and of course hi everyone.
I did not yet receive my mark for the first assignment. Is there any problem or I just have to be patient. I am a little bit concerned.
Thx.

Well, you can work out from the above. If you feel your mark is not what it should be, then you can mail me. But be sure of your facts please - I am not going to add 5% here or there. Capturing mistakes do creep in now and then.

jdfkat Wrote:
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> Hi Mac, and of course hi everyone.
> I did not yet receive my mark for the first
> assignment. Is there any problem or I just have to
> be patient. I am a little bit concerned.
> Thx.


It should have been captured. Give it a day or two them mail me.

100%

hi sir


worried even today still waiting for my assingment..

Email assignments asking them to resend the assignment to me. Maybe it got lost.

I gort zero for my assignment 1 how come.. should i be worried that the assignment is going to affect my portfolio mark at the end of the semester

As said, maybe it was captured wrong. I'll check tomorrow.