Notes for Class No. 8

Introduction to JSON and Its Use in Assignment No. 5

Assignment No. 3 Submissions - 100% again!

For all those struggling with file permissions, I wrote a quick script to fix all the permissions in your public_html if you are having issues.

Be sure to run this script from your home directory.

copy and past the following code into a file with a .sh extension

#!/bin/bash
find public_html/ -type d -exec chmod 711 {} + 
find public_html/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} +

JSON format (see listing)

JSON processing code (see listing)

Solving the dropcaps problem (see listing)

See the excellent posts on Piazza from last year related to creating JSON (please, not “jason”) files and one by Curran re Common Errors to Avoid

to document a JSON file, add a “dummy” field

"comment" : {
  "author" : "Jesse Heines, heines@cs.uml.edu" ,
  "updated" : "September 20, 2015"
}