 Hello and welcome to CSE 284, Emerging Programming Technologies. I'll be your instructor, Adam Gowita, and one of the things you might have on the notices is there's a green screen behind me. Well, one of the things I'm going to be doing this semester is I'll be actually recording all of my lectures. That way, if you miss class or you forget to really pay attention during class, or if during one of your assignments you kind of get stuck and you're struggling, you can always go back to these videos and you can kind of take a look from there. So, one of the things we will be using is we'll be using a textbook by O'Reilly, learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. One thing you'll notice about this is this is not your traditional textbook because it's not a textbook. O'Reilly is more of a reference guide, a publisher, and so what's going to happen is this book, it's not really going to have necessarily too many assignments in it, but one of the things that this is going to be able to do is give you a reference point. Every week, we're going to be going over something, and so guess what? It's probably coming from here, this book. So instead of going on the internet and getting stuck with Stack Overflow, which you will be doing, I don't condone that. It's going to at least give you a point of reference. This is what we're talking about. So here's what you should be focusing in on. One of the other programs we're actually going to be using in this class is known as XAMP. XAMP allows us to have an Apache server, a MySQL server, and to run and host PHP, HTML, and CSS files from our computer. We are actually building a web server with XAMP. So one of the things I recommend is go ahead, take some time out of your day, and just go ahead and download and install that. It'll take about one minute, two minutes, depending on your internet connection, but go ahead and get that situated now so you can go ahead and get rolling on the class. Without further ado, best of luck this semester.