Lesson 11
Something about cookies

Practice:

Exercise #11 cookie chamber

Cookies

Overview: purposes, ethical issues: While cookies provide an oft-needed way for the browser to keep track of a user's history of interaction with a web-site (useful for things like "shopping carts", adventure games, and on-line tutorials), they also provide a way for web-sites you visit to keep track of information about you, that you might prefer not to share (like how long your mouse lingers over a particular part of a picture). Certain legislation is periodically introduced which might help to protect on-line privacy; in the meantime it is up to developers to behave ethically, and for users to understand that not all developers do.

First let's review string operations

Then let's look a bit at some examples of time handling:  example1 example2

Let's talk about what cookies are, and then see some examples:

example1 example2 example3

Later, let's see if we can dissect a recipe for making cookies.