Second Summer 2002

Calendar

Students

Office Hours

Grading

Course Materials

QuizSite

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Calendar and Exams

First here's a copy of our class page in INSITE.

Then here's the outline of what will be covered in this class.

1. Introduction to Unix.
2. Introduction to Perl and Java. Installing Apache.
3. Maintaining Apache (very basic). Basic HTML.
4. Basic Perl and Basic Java. Object-Oriented Perl.
5. Basic Pattern Matching in Perl (Simple Regular Expressions).
6. Basic CGI (with PERL). Environment variables. Basic HTTP (GET/POST).
7. CGI Processing with CGI.pm
8. Relational Databases and MySQL (basic introduction to the topic)
9. Web database access with CGI, Perl, and DBI.pm
10. Maintaining state with Perl/CGI and MySQL
11. Alternative server-side programming: PHP. PHP sessions.
12. PHP database access on the web. A shopping cart.
13. Client-side programming: Javascript and DHTML
14. A Javascript shopping cart
15. Alternative client-side programming: Java applets.
16. Basic Java: the class extension mechanism, dynamic method lookup.
17. Basic Java I/O and basic Java networking (sockets, RMI)
18. What would it take to write a web browser (or a web server) in Java.
19. A simple chat aplication with Java RMI.
20. Installing Tomcat (web server supporting server-side Java)
21. The basics of Java servlets.
22. Applet-servlet communication (web chat with HTTP)
23. MySQL database access from Java (with JDBC)
24. Java Server Pages
25. XML and XSLT
26. Web discussion forum with Java servlets, MySQL, XML and XSLT
27. Encryption and security on the web

Those topics marked in red are areas in which example implementations of semester projects will be presented. One can choose one such topic and the associated implementation and turn it into the semester project (by knowing it very well at the end of the semester and defending it in person).

Office Hours

Grading

A348 is offered in the same rooms and at the same time with A548. The syllabus is the same for A348 (undergraduate) and A548 (graduate) students. There are about 6-7 assignments per semester, two in-class closed-book exams (the midterm and the final) weekly lab assignments that need to be turned in during the lab, and a semester instructor-coordinated group project.

The assignments and the exams have two components: a basic component that is required of all students (this part tests understanding of the concepts presented in class and demonstrated in the lab modules) and a more advanced component that is optional for the undergraduates but is required of the graduate students. The basic component of an assignment accounts for 100% of the assignment grade of an undergraduate student, and for 67% of that of a graduate student.

The advanced component of the assignment usually requires a certain amount of independent study on the part of the student, as it refers to concepts and procedures mentioned but not presented in great detail in lectures or lab modules. This component is optional for the undegraduates, but it accounts for 33% of the assignment grade for the students enrolled in A548. Quizzes and in-class assignments are identical for all students, and team projects (coordinated by the instructor) are all of the same difficulty.

Where teams are composed of both graduate and undergraduate students the graduate students are expected to assume additional responsibilities in terms of team coordination, project implementation and final presentation, and contributions to the project will be graded separately.

Course grades will be determined as follows:

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

Course Materials

There are two books recommended for this class:

The notes posted here also need to be read and known inside out.

I will try to finalize a course packet out of them as soon as possible to save you some printing.