Computer Science and Software Engineering behind Blogging platforms and software

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Computer Science and Software Engineering behind
Blogging platforms and software

• Team ASU 101 for CS/CSE students

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Wordpress.com
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Signing up
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Creating an wordpress account
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Updating profile
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Logging in
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Creating your Blog 1
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Creating your Blog 2
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Blog is created
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Four main templates
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Blog Dashboard
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Managing your blog
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Writing and updating an entry
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Themes and Designs
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Changing the design of your blog
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Programming your blog setting in wordpress
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Modular programming
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Php programming if, forall
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Php programming while loops
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Mysql in wordpress
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Recapping the main points

• A quick glimpse of a popular blogging platform
• It uses php and MySQL
• Novice users may not need to do any programming
• But using programming one can do lot more
• Example Change the way the archives show up
• Two kinds of programming
• Php Procedural with an interpreter
• MySQL Declarative

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Programming Languages

• They come and go
• Fortran
• Cobol
• Pascal
• ADA
• Lisp
• Java
• C
• C
• Php
• Ruby on Rail
• SQL
• But basic concepts remain

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Some basic programming language concepts

• Procedural constructs (C, C, Java, php, etc.)
• If - then else
• While do
• Repeat Until
• Procedure calls
• Object-oriented constructs (C, Java, etc.)
• Objects and methods
• Declarative constructs (SQL, Prolog)
• Say what you want not how you want
• Functional constructs (Scheme, LISP)
• Apply functions recursively

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Beyond programming languages

• How do a large group of people collaboratively
  write a huge software?
• Such as the wordpress platform
• How do we analyze large programs for its
  correctness?
• How do we test programs?

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Relevant CSE Classes

• CSE 100 Principles of programming with C
• CSE 110 Principles of programming with Java
• CSE 205 Concepts of Computer Science Data
  Structures
• CSE 220 Programming for Computer Engineering
• CSE 240 Introduction to programming languages
• CSE 310 Data Structures and Algorithms
• CSE 340 Principles of programming languages
• CSE 360 Introduction to Software Engineering
• CSE 412 Database management
• CSE 440 Compiler Constructions 1
• CSE 445 Distributed Software Development
• CSE 460 Software Analysis and Design
• CSE 485-486 Computer Science Capstone Project

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Our goal in these classes

• To help you to learn the basics,
• Provide some specific examples,
• Give you some development and presentation
  experience,
• But in general help you to learn how to learn
  new things on your own in the future.

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Take home task

• Create a wordpress blog
• Personalize the default blog setting to your
  liking
• List what changes you made.
• List some of the changes that you would have
  liked to make but could not figure out how to
  make it.