Community of Practice: Internet of Things

Hi all,

If any of you like me will be working with spreadsheets to log data of any kind in your projects and have no idea where to start, this tutorial provided some good information to get the basics down.

Improper password storage can leave a website vulnerable to data breaches, so it’s very important for developers to employ proper security when handling user data. For passwords, it’s hashing.

Here is a great tutorial I’ve seen that outlines some basics about hashing compared to encryption, and provides an example of how to implement the latest hashing algorithms in your next Python script. I personally enjoyed being able to write a script in just a few minutes that allowed me to see what hashing looks like, and the effects that things like salting a hash has on the end result.

While working on my local host site, I came across a template that, aside from the HTML file, had a CSS file. Is there any way to embed this onto the HTML file I already have? The reason I ask is because when I open up my localhost site on a browser, the formatting is wrong due to the fact that there are missing format instructions. In other words, it is only opening the HTML file and not including the CSS. If there’s no way to embed it, is there a way to allow the localhost to pull the information needed from the CSS file?

Here is the link to the the Python game tutorial we are doing at the last CoP meeting for Fall term:

https://www.raywenderlich.com/2795-beginning-game-programming-for-teens-with-python

This document contains information on the design and creation of a classic video game cabinet. It has information on how the software was dealt with and how everything was interfaced together to get thousands of games to play on one system. Link: arcade cabinet

Here is a tutorial on how to make tabs in HTML, CSS, and Javascript. It gives a brief introduction of how to use the tab classes and provides example code that you can copy and modify.

https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_js_tabs.asp

Here’s a good introductory tutorial for a range slider to get started if you need a moveable slider for any projects

https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_js_rangeslider.asp

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Oregon State University is offering MySQL database access for students personal use. This service will work from your personal web space through a cgi script.

visit https://it.engineering.oregonstate.edu/student-mysql-access-personal-use to get more information on how to use this service.

Hello everyone!

The first meeting for the Cloud and Application Software Community of Practice will be happening Wednesday, October 17th at 5 PM in Dearborn 211!

It will be great to see people there!

Come with questions and projects to work on!