Posted by Prem Radhakrishnan
Common | Pure Beginner | Beginner | Intermediate | Advanced
The Pure Beginner Track was designed with people who have dabbled with web pages and want to take it to the next level. You will learn how easy it is to use ColdFusion to add dynamic content to a website. If you have created web pages with HTML and want to learn ColdFusion this is the class for you. You will get your hands dirty with code in this one and go away with a head full of questions and desire to learn more ColdFusion.
This is a hands on class and you are required to bring your own laptop with everything from the Laptop Installation section below. Please make sure you do this before you come to the class to save time. We request that the IU domain folks make sure that you can work with the wireless and wired connections at IU before you come to this event. This will help us get the folks from outside IU networked and ready to go quickly. In order to not overwhelm the wireless in the building, we will ask that members of the IU community to go wired. Please bring an IU-ready Ethernet cable if you have one.
| Pure Beginner |
Prerequisites
- Familiarity with Web terminology
- Experience with HTML tag set and syntax
- Familiarity with SQL command set (easy to pick up)
What you will learn
- Understanding ColdFusion
- Publishing Database Content
- Building Forms and Search Interfaces
- Data CRUD (Create, Read, Update & Delete)
Laptop Installation
- ColdFusion Developer Edition*
- DreamWeaver* with ColdFusion Extensions
- Microsoft Access (windows users only)
- Course Installation
- Download the PureBeginner.zip file. It contains all the files mentioned below.
- Cf8InstallHelp.pdf contains instructions on how to install ColdFusion (please make sure that you write down your admin password)
- Ftc800_StudentSetupGuide contains instructions to install the course files on your computer. The Installing Course Files section refers to a CD with the materials, this is the ftcf800_StudentFiles_22Aug07.zip file in your download. These instructions were created for Windows users , Mac users read the section below for the changes.
- Mac users only
- The section Adding the solution data source does not work for Mac Users because the database is an Access Database.
- Once you have installed the course materials, open the file C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\ftcf800\derbydatabase\derbycreate.cfm in Dreamweaver or a regular text editor and in the very first line replace “INSERT PASSWORD HERE” with your admin password.
- Open a web browser and type in the following address http://localhost:8500/ftcf800/derbydatabase/derbycreate.cfm . You will see on your screen some messages that the database has been created and added.
- You can skip the entire Adding the solution data source at this point. Testing the installation does not work for Mac at this time, you will change some code in class for this to work.
- Ftcf800_WMStudentGuide_22Aug07.pdf is the printed course material for this class. You do not have to print this as mentioned in the first email, everyone will be getting the book if you are attending this class.
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| 9:00AM – 12:15PM |
Adobe Fast Track to ColdFusion 8 – Part I
-Matt Boles |
| 2:00PM – 5:15PM |
Adobe Fast Track to ColdFusion 8 – Part II
-Matt Boles |
*An Adobe login is required to download, creating an account is free and easy.
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August 12th, 2008
