CET 4583 - Assignment 6B
Consuming an RSS Feed
Objectives
Learn to use XML and Java t o place an RSS Feed on a web site.
Assignment
1. Using you class home site you are going to make an improvement. On one portion of your page (you can use CSS to set up a region for this) you are going to display the information from an RSS FEED.
2. The feed should show on your main class page.
3. You can use any RSS feed, news, sports, tech blogs, your blog as the feed.
4. You need to credit the feed source on your page.
Information
A great video explaning RSS is at http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english - if you do not understand RSS, this is a must watch. However this will only give you an understanding of what RSS is. To actually use it you are going to have to get technical - hopefully you are all IST or IT students.
There is a full description of how to do this including code in your textbook in Chapter 14. If you do not have the text try this link - it has a pretty good description. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/09/13/rss-and-ajax-a-simple-news-reader.html . Even if you do have the text - I highly recommend you read this article, it explains very clearly a lot of information about RSS and how JavaScript can be used in a browser to consume the feed.
If you find any other good articles (there are some really easy ones and some more challenging ones) - please mail me and I'll add them to the information.
Estimated Completion Time
This typically takes 5 hours to complete.
Supporting Lectures
No supporting lectures - use textbook or web information. At this point all students should be able to figure this out.
Questions and Answers
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