My accomplishments 2005.July
- Began using my laptop computer with Emacs Lisp for tutoring disabled beginners at Grace Community Center how to program computers.
- Finished working out how in PHP & C & C++ & Java & Perl to accomplish all steps from CGI-hello-world to full decoding of encoded HTML form to associative array, and cleaned up my old Lisp code to do likewise for POST method (already done for GET method).
- Figured out a trick using FIFO whereby if I'm online then I get bleeped immediately whenever somebody logs into my CGI server, thereby alerting me they might have sent me e-mail.
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Wrote new code whereby some people logged into my CGI server can compose a short message to me in a textarea and store it on the disk, including selection of simple options to alert me they have sent me e-mail on one of my Yahoo! Mail accounts, and bleep me immediately when they write that message to me, so I'll know immediately where to look for their e-mail. This provides a solution to spam, whereby I no longer have to idly check my e-mail from time to time looking through spam not knowing if there's any legitimate e-mail whatsoever in it, but now I can know what to look for and where to look for it so I can efficiently scan through the spam deliberately for the e-mail I've already been alerted is there.
- In light of recent computer-programming lessons I've been giving, added major outline of Hello-CGI-plus-four-or-more-steps showing how I plan to teach computer programming in a language-independent manner.