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Entry title: Tutoring my peers
Date added:  Monday, July 20 2009, 09:11AM
Written by:  Agilo (agilo3@gmail.com)
Entry ID:    257
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One of the assignments of a class I had in school last semester was spend 28
hours on trivial tasks such as helping out at open houses, being a peer coach
(that is: helping first year students out with classes they need some
assistance in), etc.
I decided to take a slightly different twist in spending those 28 hours on
account of two classmates of mine asking me for help with PHP and HTML.
I asked the teacher in question if it was alright for me to spend my 28 hours
in this fashion and sure enough, I was answered with that it was more than
alright.

I decided to focus my lessons on a couple of different web related topics,
namely (in order):


 basic tagsoup HTML
 CSS
 XHTML
 Accessibility standards
 Javascript: basics
 Javascript: DOM-manipulation
 PHP: basics (variables, basic i/o, forms)
 PHP: filesystem i/o, making a guestbook using a flatfile database
 PHP: using SQL
 Security: SQL injections, HTML injections/cookie theft, miscellaneous other
tidbits (how to circumvent HTML restrictions in websites that filter HTML,
injecting HTML/javascript by exploiting UBB code parsers, etc.)


Giving these lessons was really a lot of fun, so I found out.
I was also given a lot of positive feedback and some constructive criticism
regarding the pace of the lessons (some felt it went a bit too fast).


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