ManWithComputer
The Internet, IP
Male, 37
I've worked at multiple Internet startups of different shapes, sizes and ambitions. Now I'm the CTO (Chief Technical Officer) of another small company with big dreams. I look nothing like the picture above.
If you copy and paste your homework question in here, I will answer with something that will, at best, get you an F on your project, and at worst, will get you kicked out of school. You have been warned.
It depends entirely on the site in question. Try asking Google.
Check out Foundation or Twitter Bootstrap. These are web design libraries that may give you the leg up you seem to be looking for.
So, I can't say for sure, but I think Flash might be a good bet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash
Compared to other programming tasks, it's not so hard--it's more a matter of gluing together big parts that other people have already made.
What gets tricky with screen scraping is dealing with pages that almost-but-don't-quite fit the pattern. Setting up a basic scraper is pretty easy, dealing with the exceptions to the rules is what gets you.
Waitress
Professor
Pharmaceutical Researcher
Basically, because other people exist. Other people are either going to extend your code someday, or you'll be using code that other people wrote. And if you redefine "cout" or "fin," things will get as confused as if you redefined a common natural-language word like "dog" or "red."
Do your own homework.
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