Computer Science Capstone Project

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1. INTERNSHIP 2009 Spring internship at Mrs. Riley by Nick Garofalo
2. ME Degree in computer science and creative writing Science Scholar My second internship Web developer Days away from graduation Really tired Helusionary.com (my site)
3. HERE WE GO Why should you do an internship? How do you get an internship? Why are web developers so cool? What is a CMS? What is Drupal? Is it curable? What is Mrs. Riley? Demo! ?
4. INTERNSHIPS • Easy to get (everyone wants an intern) • Great learning experience (cheaper than text books) • Give real world experience (and pay) • No prior experience needed (it’s OK to be a noob) • Tons of fun (better than sitting in another boring class)
5. THE HOW-TO 1.Find company 2.Talk to company 3.Write a 1-page proposal 4.Turn in proposal to advisor 5.Commence awesomeness
6. WHAT I DID
7. WEB DEVELOPERS • We’re not FrontPage guys • We write code • We don’t just make pretty web pages • We don’t fix peoples computers • We don’t compile (usually) • We’re innovative :)
8. CMS Content Management System
9. DRUPAL Flexible Content Management System (CMS) Web development framework Open source Highly addictive
10. OVERVIEW General Friendly URLs Modules Online help Open source Personalization Searching Community Discussion forums Collaborative Books Users User Management User authentication Profiles Role based permission system Platform Apache or IIS Unix / Linux / BSD / Solaris / Windows / Mac OS X support Database independence Multi-language Blogging Blogger API support Content syndication News aggregation Permalinks Content Polls Templating Threaded comments Version control Administration and Analysis Analysis, Tracking and Statistics Logging and Reporting Web based administration Performance and Scalability Caching Compression
11. EXTENSIBILITY What? You didn’t think that was it, did you? There’s more? You betcha! OMFG
12. EXTENSIBILITY Download contributed modules Make your own modules Embed code right in the page or in blocks PHP Javascript System.out.printf (“your language”); PWN
13. WHOA A quarter of a million people use Drupal Let’s take a look Pretty picture time! !
14. SPREAD FIREFOX spreadfirefox.com
15. AVIOSO avioso.com
16. THE ONION theonion.com
17. SONY
    MYPLAY myplay.com
18. GALLERY gallery.menalto.com
19. SONGBIRD getsongbird.com
20. UBUNTU ubuntu.com
21. AION ELYSIUM aionelysium.com
22. MRS. RILEY mrsriley.com
23. QUESTIONS ?
24. DEMO