The actual creation of the module involved the use of several different programing languages. The specifics of this process are not important, but the module can server as an example of the capabilities of these programs and computers in general. The majority of the script is run using a unix based programming language called "cgi scripting". This script can be very simple or, in this case, very long and complicated (luckily I had help). The whole module is actually run on one long script with several sections. Some of these sections require accessing an Oracle database. For example: When you login, the script (now in Oracle programming language) accesses oracle to verify your user name and password. In addition, oracle saves the settings that you choose within the module so that you can start where you last left off. Since the cgi and oracle scripting is done "behind the scenes", there needs to be some way of presenting the information to the script user. In this case, I used basic html tags and text to organize and form the viewed module. Like I said, the details are not too important, but just realize that a combination of cgi scripting, oracle databasing, and basic html was used to create this module. In addition, realize that this is only one small example of the limitless possible applications of these programs.
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