I have a question about working with web on user's side. I need to automatize some user's actions on web pages(sites), but i don't know how to do it. I would have learned this myself, but i don't know what to start with, how to find information that i need. I mean i have no idea what programming language to choose to do this, or how this kind of applications or programs is called. Do i need to learn JavaScript or idk python or c++, or something else? Please, tell me anything you know about this, any information will be useful.
The easiest way to automate inputs to a website is using Selenium.
The Selenium website has plenty of information and demonstrations on how to use their software.
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I have created an interactive application in Visual C++ that has a graphical user interface and text output. The code is compiled and runs successfully on my computer.
I would like to make the application available for users to access and run via a website (and maybe email the results text). What do I need to do to achieve that?
Edit: I know that this question may look unresearched for many of you. The application I refer is a real scientific application. The question appears vague because I don't know where exactly to start. I did some browsing, but most was above my experience level. I am still looking, but I couldn't find a route yet.
I'd like to automatize some processes that are not yet available through API(Google Classroom), like posting comments on announcements, seeing private comments on my work and so on. I have trouble accessing my account. I'd like the app to be able to run on a server. I'm currently working with node.js, but if there is an easier approach I'll gladly accept it (free if it's possible). Can you give me an example of how it's done because currently, I am struggling to find every button that needs to be clicked on?
Unfortunately, there are no methods right now to accomplish that. You can leave a feature request on Google Issue Tracker describing what methods you would like to use. Google engineers will study your case and, if applicable, they will develop the requested methods.
You could use something like Selenium with your language of choice (Javascript in this case) to automate the browser clicks.
This is however, not the best of ideas... To make Selenium log into your account you will need to hardcode your password somewhere.
Google services use Oauth for authentication, take a look at the Classroom API Getting-started for instructions on how to work with Google Classroom API.
I want to get familiar with web development, so I decided to create an e-shop website, just for practice. Are there any guidelines on how to get started?
Oh there's a log way to go.
First you'll need to learn some html and css. In my opinion http://www.w3schools.com/ it's a good site to get started but there are many other good tutorials out there.
Then javascript it would be the next step, trying to set some events etc. You can find some help at w3schools or here www.tutorialspoint.com/javascript/
Then you surely need to learn php, manage a database and so on. You can also learn that in the sites I already put the link to.
Good luck and have fun.
Im looking to get more into programming, and I've decided to look into creating a browser extension. This is exactly the kind of project I've been looking for to get stuck into programming web stuff but I'm new to it so I don't know where to start.
Could anyone suggest the different things I should look into?
The only programming experience I have so far is in Matlab. I've looked into C on and off in the past I but I have no practical experience with it.
I've started to have a look at Twando, an open source program which schedules tweets on Twitter where I'm going through and understanding all the code for that program (mostly php).
Afterwards I'll look more carefully at how to write Chrome browser extensions and then probably look into how to make 3rd party programs work with Twitter, Pinterest etc.
Am I looking along the right lines? Any constructive criticism will be appreciated.
I think you could do this using Javascript (and maybe JQuery, which is a library for Javascript that makes it easier/adds alot of easy to use functions).
For the basics:
http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/getstarted
This is great for learing to work with JSON and chrome extensions:
http://lifehacker.com/5857721/how-to-build-a-chrome-extension
What you could also do is download a simple extension from the "store" and open it to check what's inside. This helped me the most with learning Javascript and JQuery.
My freind and I want to setup a collaborative project where we both work on a HTML file (and do PHP) at the same time (bit like Google Docs share feature). I want to be able to work with him to teach him certain things in PHP and HTML while I also code at the same time. Any suggestions? I have a VPS I thought we could use for it so nothings really going to get in our way. Maybe something like GIT or something?
Sounds like what you need is a real-time collaborative text editor. Here's an extensive list from wikipedia.
I use Google Docs personally but Microsoft has added this type of functionality into Office and there are a slew of desktop and online tools on that link. I had looked into Etherpad before but i don't remember enough to suggest one or the other. All of the links are on the wikipedia article so I won't repeat here.