Starting simple CSS
The CAT curriculum, unfortunately, teaches a very old version of HTML. Modern web development has moved on dramatically. In this post, I explain through a number of steps how to…
Editing images for your website
The PAT Learner Guide specifies that your images must be correctly sized for the web. Many Learners simply change the dimensions of the image using the width and height attributes,…
HTML5 <datalist> jQuery validation
I decided to use the HTML5 <input><datalist> on a View in my CakePHP project, and was super surprised to see that there is no way of restricting the text in…
PHP Dynamic year selector
Another post from the archives. After 2009 rolled in and all our sites failed to follow suit because “someone” hard-coded the years — but only up to 2008 — I…
PHP CLI “Hello World”
I have only recently begun working with PHP CLI scripts. Executing PHP scripts from the command line is fairly easy and you require no extra knowledge to create a basic…
PHP short tags
Another post from the archives: I am running a WAMP development environment at home and at work. I am always looking for new ways to fine-tune my set-up. Here is…
Phase 3 HTML website
« Previous step: Phase 3 final report Grade 11 and 12’s must create an HTML website to present the results of their investigation. A working, three-page website framework can be…
Phase 3 final report
« Previous step: Phase 2 Access database If you did all the work correctly in Phase 1 as recommended in my post Acing Your PAT, Phase 3 is a breeze.…
Phase 2 “additional data”
It is vitally important to note that the requirements around the data collected for the Grade 12 PAT changed in 2021. The requirements are more specific, especially regarding the "extra data from…
Phase 2 Excel analysis
Once you have captured your questionnaire data in Microsoft Excel (or downloaded your data from a digital Google Form questionnaire), you must analyze the data. Your analysis must demonstrate your…