- Hello and welcome to Code Clinic.
My name is Dan Gookin.
Code Clinic is a course where a unique problem
is introduced to a collection of lynda.com authors.
In response, each author creates a solution
by using his programming language of choice.
You can learn several things from Code Clinic;
different approaches to solving a problem,
the pros and cons of different languages,
and some tips and tricks to incorporate
into your own practices.
This chapter's problem is common
to anyone building a website or a report,
specifically merging live data with static templates.
Data is only useful when it can
effectively communicate something to someone else
and to do that, data must be formatted into
some sort of meaningful visual representation.
Sometimes, this representation
takes the form of a printed report.
Most likely, it means publishing data to a webpage.
In this problem, the pre-formated HTML webpage
is all ready available,
as are the two data files in CSV format.
The task is to write code that converts the data files
into a format for insertion into the webpage.
The files used are created by James Williamson
in Chapter 9 of his course titled
Dreamweaver CC Essential Training.
James provides all the material needed for this challenge.
I invite you to download the example files for this course
if you would like to attempt your own solution.
In the next few movies,
I'll show you how I solved the challenge.