CS 280 Homework Assignments

CGI programs (due 2/28)
Popcorn CGIs using "raw" Python cgi module and our CGIApp framework.
Web Site from Scratch (due 2/25)
See project description here.
Screen Scraper (due 2/14)
Write a program that automatically processes HTML gathered from the Internet to answer an interesting question. Two possible projects:

Movie Info

This program accepts the name of a movie on the command line and then returns info about the movie from imdb.com. You should return at least the year it was made and the director. Bonus information would be to print out the cast.

Amazon Rank

This program accepts the ISBN of a book on the command line and then reports its current sales rank on amazon.com. Extra credit for more information such as Title, Author, and rating (out of 5 stars).

If you have another idea, I may be amenable to that. Just run it by me.
"Personal" Web page (due 2/1)
Complete exercises 1-3 from chapter 2.
Simple Chat Server (due 2/4)
Write a simple chat server application as described here.
Page Fetcher (due 1/24)
Write a program using the socket module to fetch a web page specified on the command line. Example:
$ fetchPage http://mcsp.wartburg.edu/zelle/internet/index.html
...html shows here..
Guidelines: Your program should have two functions:
```
fetchPage(resource, machine, port=80)
     returns two strings, the HTTP header info and the HTTP data

main()
    this function processes the command line and calls fetch with
    appropriate arguments and then prints the data from the fetchPage.
```
Note: This form of the command line is different from what we did in Lab on Friday. You may use the Python urlparse library module to help out, if you wish.
Getting on the Internet (due 1/17)
Do a bit of online research to answer these two questions:
1. How could I get an IP address (or block of addresses) on the Internet.
2. How could I get my own domain on the Internet and actually have people be able to find my machine through this domain?
It would also be interesting to find out how much it costs.
Write up your answers as a short paragraph, and be prepared to hand it in in class.