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Here at Prairie School District (PSD) we are committed to helping you succeed. PSD strives to do everything in our power to give you the tools you need to accomplish your goals. Please find the upcoming homework assignments table below for your reference. See the Homework page for full details.

Class	Homework Assignment
IMD2151	Individual Project (Unit 1)
	Discusussion Board (Unit 1)
	Live Chat (Unit 1)

CGR1251	Group Project (Unit 1)
CGR1251	Discusussion Board (Unit 1)

WDN1331	Individual Project (Unit 1)
WDN1331	Live Chat (Unit 1)

Javascript Tip of the Week

This week's Javascript Tip of the Week is an example of how to create a daily message like the one you see at the top of this page showing the current date.

The "writeMsgOfDay()" Javascript function is seen below. Follow the commented lines that start with // to see what the function is doing.

As you will see on lines 4-10, the function starts by setting all the variables for the current date and time.
Next on lines 12-17, the code creates two arrays for the names of the weedays and months. This allows you to use the actual month and day names rather than the numbers.
The next portion of code, on lines 19-28, check the hour variable to see if it is morning, afternoon or evening and creates an appropriate greeting message.
On lines 30-32 you will see everything come together, this is where you concatenate all of the different date elements we've created to build the sMsg string variable. It wraps the message in a H2 element.
On line 35 you see the document.write command that actually writes the sMsg variable to the web page. Without this, all the work would be for naught.

   1  function writeMsgOfDay(){
   2    // Writes the secondary header on the page with a unique message of the day
   3    
   4    // Create date variables for today
   5    var today = new Date();
   6    var day = today.getDay();
   7    var month = today.getMonth();
   8    var date = today.getDate();
   9    var year = today.getYear();
  10    var hour = today.getHours();  11  
  12    // Create array of weekdays
  13    var weekday = new Array("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday");
  14  
  15    // Create array of month names
  16    var monthName = new Array("January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August",
  17                              "September","October","November","December");  18  
  19    // Check time to see if it's morning, afternoon or evening and create appropriate message
  20    var sGreeting;
  21    if(hour < 4)
  22      sGreeting = "Hello, night owl. ";
  23    else if(hour < 12)
  24      sGreeting = "Good morning. ";
  25    else if(hour < 17)
  26      sGreeting = "Good afternoon. ";
  27    else if(hour <= 24)
  28      sGreeting = "Good evening. ";  29  
  30    // Compile message of the day using date components previously created
  31    var sMsg = "<h2>" + sGreeting + "Today is " + weekday[day] + ", " + monthName[month] + " " + 
  32                date + ", " + year + ".</h2>";  33
  34    // Write the message on the page
  35    document.write(sMsg);  36  }