Fall Semester 2005

[01] Aug 30 [02] Sep 1 [01] Lab One Homework One	[03] Sep 6 [04] Sep 8 [02] Lab Two Homework Two	[05] Sep 13 [06] Sep 15 [03] Lab Three Homework Three	[07] Sep 20 [08] Sep 22 [04] Lab Four Homework Four
[09] Sep 27 [10] Sep 29 [05] Lab Five Homework Five	[11] Oct 4 [12] Oct 6 [06] Lab Six Homework Six	[13] Oct 11 [14] Oct 13 [07] Lab Seven	[15] Oct 18 [16] MIDTERM [08] Lab Eight Homework Seven
[16] Oct 25 [17] Oct 27 [09] Lab Nine	[18] Nov 1 [19] Nov 3 [10] Lab Ten	[20] Nov 8 [21] Nov 10 [11] Lab Eleven	[22] Nov 15 [23] Nov 17 [08] Lab Twelve [08] PRACTICAL DUE
[24] Nov 22 [23] THANKSGIVING [10] NO LAB	[25] Nov 29 [26] Dec 1 [12] Project Lab (I)	[27] Dec 6 [28] Dec 8 [13] Project Lab (II)	[07] FINAL EXAM

Grading:

Course grades will be determined as follows:

Component	Category	Weight
Seven Assignments	HWK	30%
Group Project	PRJ	15%
Midterm Exam	MID	15%
Final Exam	FIN	15%
Lab Assignments (about 12)	LAB	20%
Minute Papers (about 28)	MIN	5%

The overall cutoff scale is as follows:

0-54.99	55-65.99	66-67.99	68-69.99	70-75.99	76-77.99	78-79.99	80-85.99	86-87.99	88-89.99	90-95.99	96-up
F	D	D+	C-	C	C+	B-	B	B+	A-	A	A+

Syllabus

In addition to the lecture and lab notes posted above you are responsible for the following:

Here's the weekly schedule of topics in this class:

Week		Date(s)	Topics	Reading Assignments
Week	1	8/30-9/1	Creating Unix accounts. Understanding (reviewing?) HTML. Installing Apache.	The Mostly pp. 13-28, skim 29-33.
Week	2	9/6-8	Basic Perl. What is CGI? More Unix (Maintaining Apache).	The Mostly pp. 29-33, and 35-53, 55-59.
Week	3	9/13-15	What is CGI.pm? Password-protected directories. The basic structure of a web program.	The Mostly pp. 65-91 (incl. 77-79).
Week	4	9/20-22	What is HTTP? The Basics of the Java Programming Language. Writing a server and a browser (in Java).	The Mostly pp. 95-132, and 133-144.
Week	5	9/27-29	Keeping state. Client-side vs. server-side storage issues. What is a RDBMS? What is SQL?	The Mostly pp. 145-163, 165-207.
Week	6	10/4-6	Database acces with Perl. Installing PHP. Session management in CGI/Perl.	The Mostly pp. 209-244.
Week	7	10/11-13	Introduction to PHP. Session management with PHP. Review of keeping State Methods.	The Mostly pp. 237-276
Week	8	10/18-20	Database access using PHP. A Shopping Cart with PHP.
Week	9	10/25-27	From PHP to Javascript. A Basic Shopping Cart with Javascript.
Week	10	11/1-3	Installing Tomcat. Server-side Java Review of Projects
Week	11	11/8-10	Java Servlets. Java Server Pages. Finite State Machines for the Web.
Week	12	11/15-17	Review of Projects.
Week	13	11/22-24	THANKSGIVING
Week	14	11/29-31	Applet to Servlet Communication. Java RMI. Introduction to XML Review of Projects
Week	15	12/6-8	Database Access with Java. Using JDBC and XSLT to Implement a Web Forum. Review of Projects
Week	18	05/03-05/06	FINAL EXAM

Links such as this will be useful: http://www.w3schools.com/

Also recommended: