| A Personal Web Server | To do quick development and easy debugging, you should have a web server running on your own computer. Here is a simple one for Windows, with installation instructions... |
| Using Stuy's web server | If you can't get a personal web server running, and/or you want to use the school's web server... |
| The HTML Form elements | Here's a quick introduction to the major HTML form elements that the user can fill in. |
| The Python "back-end" program | Here's a sample Python program that retrieves and processes the form elements that were transmitted to it. |
| Sample live HTML web page and The Python program that answers it |
Here's a live example of a questioning web page and its answering Python program |
| Python CGI Programming | Here's an excellent external guide to CGI (interactive forms) programming in Python. |
| Python Program Checker | If you've put your Python program onto one of the Stuy servers and it doesn't work, try using this Python Program Checker. |
| gedit line endings
selection notepad++ line endings selection |
If you're using either one of the following free text editors: gedit or notepad++, you can select the UNIX line-endings for your text and Python files, which will cure many line endings problems. Be aware that notepad++ is not the same program as the standard notepad program that comes with Windows. |
