For Wednesday, October 30: Finish reading Chapter 8.

For Monday, November 4: Design a database to back up your Web site.

Extremely good work on code segments, but weak on knowing exact statements.

• What is a function prototype?
• What does fopen return?
• Is there any input function that doesn't return a string?
• Is there any function that manipulates a file but doesn't use a handle? Which ones? How do they specify the file?
• Regular expression to match a ... ?

Some background information I should have discussed:

• What is a stream in PHP?
• What is a resource in PHP?
• What is a stream resource in PHP?
• What is a [handle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handle_(computing\)) in computing, and what is the significance for PHP?

• The Standish Group and The Chaos Manifesto
• Software Development Joke
• Stages of Debugging
• Stages of project management:

Wild enthusiasm
Disillusionment
Confusion
Panic
Search for the guilty
Punishment of the innocent
Promotion of the non-participants

See Examples, above.