Hello everyone, my name Zakaria and you can call me Zack. I am 35 years old and live in Alberta. I'm taking this course because it seems interesting and also any programmer should at least know how to make websites I believe. As I was looking for elective course list for specialization on the AU website I found this course was an elective course for students who want to specialize in web-based system development. I have done some HTML before, it was fun and easy to learn and was fun to see my work on a web page (this was years ago). I am excited to learn the real stuff that you can use to create a website the way you wanted it to be. I am pointing this out because a couple of years ago I needed a website where my wife can sell her beauty products, so I used a service that let create websites easily. The problem I faced was how to rank the website according to some keywords, but using a third party service made the job difficult because you can only use the options they provide you with. Now, it's time to learn these techniques and apply them.

I started comp 266 this July, and I started by scanning through all units and what we expect to find in it. Then I started reading unit 0 and I've found lots of information that needs to be read and it felt like reading from a papyrus. Then I started all over again but this time I took my time and followed instructions step by step. And if the text says to do a,b,c then d that's how I did it. And it worked. And this is what I’ve accomplished so far from this unit:

• Read the orientation file and followed instructions step by step
• Took unit 0 self-test
• Contacted the landing support to setup my web space
• Got the response about my web space the next day
• Downloaded the required files, PuTTY and WinSCP programs
• Tried the programs and connected to my web space
• Changed my password to my account
• Created my first PHP file and downloaded it to the server
• Connected to my database
• Used what I have learned from my previous course comp 325 (UNIX)
• Logged in to the landing website
• Set up my account and edited my profile
• Browsed and tried to get an understanding of how the landing is structured
• Still learning as I go
• Read some interesting posts
• Watched the introduction video

The challenge that I think I’m going have in this course is the process of keeping a history of my progress in the learning journey. But, I already had a conversation with myself and decided to keep my journal as simple because simple is what makes people interested in things.