WebFund 2013W: Tasks 1

Your first set of tasks are the following:

• Setup an account on Piazza.
• Setup an account on github.
• Validate your student email with github to get a free student account: https://github.com/edu
• Setup an account on the class wiki (optional).
• Tell the TA your current ideas on your term project and who you would like to work with.
• If you do not have a partner, post a blurb on Piazza to help find one, or reply to an existing solicitation.
• Download and run/install a copy of node.js. A local copy of the standalone 32-bit windows executable here. Other versions are here.
• Run the node.js hello world program as shown in the "Basic HTTP server" in the Node Beginner Book.

Hints

• If you just run the node.exe executable by double-clicking on it, you'll get a ">" prompt. This is the node read/eval/print loop. Meaning, you type in JavaScript to it.
• If you want to run a file with javascript in it in node, start up a command prompt, cd to the directory containing node.exe and your file foo.js, and then run "node foo.js".