Spring Semester 2005

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Office Hours Reading Assignments Grading Scale Labs/Instructors Students/Ports Class Resources

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
Jan 9 Jan 10 Jan 11
Lecture One
Lecture Zero
Spring 2004 		Jan 12
Students 		Jan 13
Lecture Two 		Jan 14
Lab One 		Jan 15
Jan 16 Jan 17
Homework One 		Jan 18
Lecture Three 		Jan 19 Jan 20
Lecture Four 		Jan 21
Lab Two 		Jan 22
Jan 23 Jan 24
Homework Two 		Jan 25
Lecture Five 		Jan 26 Jan 27
Lecture Six 		Jan 28
Lab Three 		Jan 29
Jan 30 Jan 31
Semester Project 		Feb 1
Lecture Seven 		Feb 2 Feb 3
Lecture Eight 		Feb 4
Lab Four 		Feb 5
Feb 6 Feb 7
Homework Three 		Feb 8
Lecture Nine 		Feb 9 Feb 10
Lecture Ten 		Feb 11
Lab Five 		Feb 12
Feb 13 Feb 14
Homework Four 		Feb 15
Lecture Eleven 		Feb 16 Feb 17
Lecture Twelve 		Feb 18
Lab Six 		Feb 19
Feb 20 Feb 21 Feb 22
Lecture Thirteen 		Feb 23 Feb 24
Lecture Fourteen 		Feb 25
Lab Seven 		Feb 26
Feb 27 Feb 28
Homework Five 		Mar 1
MIDTERM EXAM 		Mar 2 Mar 3
Lecture Fifteen 		Mar 4
PRACTICAL EXAM 		Mar 5
Mar 6 Mar 7 Mar 8
Lecture Sixteen 		Mar 9
Last day drop/add 		Mar 10
Lecture Seventeen 		Mar 11
Lab Eight 		Mar 12
Spring Break
Mar 13
Spring Break 		Mar 14
Spring Break 		Mar 15
Spring Break 		Mar 16
Spring Break 		Mar 17
Spring Break 		Mar 18
Spring Break 		Mar 19
Spring Break
Mar 20
Spring Break 		Mar 21
Homework Six 		Mar 22
Lecture Eighteen 		Mar 23 Mar 24
Lecture Nineteen 		Mar 25
Lab Nine
Lab NineE 		Mar 26
Mar 27 Mar 28
Homework Seven 		Mar 29
Lecture Twenty 		Mar 30 Mar 31
Lecture Twenty-One 		Apr 1
Lab Ten 		Apr 2
Apr 3 Apr 4 Apr 5
Lecture Twenty-Two 		Apr 6 Apr 7
Lecture Twenty-Three 		Apr 8
Lab Eleven 		Apr 9
Apr 10 Apr 11 Apr 12
Lecture Twenty-Four 		Apr 13 Apr 14
Lecture Twenty-Five 		Apr 15
Lab Twelve 		Apr 16
Apr 17 Apr 18 Apr 19
Lecture Twenty-Six 		Apr 20 Apr 21
Lecture Twenty-Seven 		Apr 22
Lab Thirteen 		Apr 23
Apr 24 Apr 25 Apr 26
Lecture Twenty-Eight 		Apr 27 Apr 28
Lecture Twenty-Nine 		Apr 29
Lab Fourteen 		Apr 30
Final Exam Days
May 1
Final Exam Days 		May 2
Final Exam Days 		May 3
Final Exam
(7:15-9:15 pm, Lindley 102) 		May 4
Final Exam Days 		May 5
Final Exam Days 		May 6
Final Exam Days 		May 7
Final Exam Days

Office Hours
Adrian German
MTWR 9-10am
(LH201D) 		Shakila Shayan
R 2:30-4:30
(LH201D) 		Matt Whitehead
R 2:30-4:30
(LH125)

Weekly labs:

Thursday Friday
3442 (4:40-5:30pm)
BH107, 21/3
Matt and Shakila 		3443 (10:10-11:00pm)
LH023, 18/13
Adrian
3444 (11:15am-12:05pm)
LH023, 19/8
Matt and Shakila

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+

Reading Assignments

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 01/11-01/14 Creating Unix accounts.
Understanding (reviewing?) HTML.
Installing Apache. 		The Mostly pp. 13-28, skim 29-33.
Week 2 01/18-01/21 Basic Perl.
What is CGI?
More Unix (Maintaining Apache). 		The Mostly pp. 29-33, and 35-53, 55-59.
Week 3 01/25-01/28 What is CGI.pm?
Password-protected directories.
The basic structure of a web program. 		The Mostly pp. 65-91 (incl. 77-79).
Week 4 01/11-01/14 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 02/01-02/04 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 02/08-02/11 Database acces with Perl.
Installing PHP.
Session management in CGI/Perl. 		The Mostly pp. 209-244.
Week 7 02/15-02/18 Introduction to PHP.
Session management with PHP.
Review of keeping State Methods. 		The Mostly pp. 237-276
Week 8 02/22-02/25 Database access using PHP.
A Shopping Cart with PHP.
Midterm Review.
Week 9 03/01-03/04 MIDTERM EXAM (Tuesday)
Practical Exam (Thursday/Friday in lab).
Week 10 03/08-03/11 From PHP to Javascript.
A Basic Shopping Cart with Javascript.
Week 11 03/15-03/18 SPRING BREAK
Week 12 03/22-03/25 Installing Tomcat.
Server-side Java
Review of Projects
Week 13 03/29-04/01 Java Servlets. Java Server Pages.
Finite State Machines for the Web.
Review of Projects.
Week 14 04/05-04/08 Applet to Servlet Communication.
Java RMI. Introduction to XML
Review of Projects
Week 15 04/12-04/15 Database Access with Java.
Using JDBC and XSLT to Implement a Web Forum.
Review of Projects
Week 16 04/19-04/22 Review of Projects
Week 17 04/26-04/29 Final Exam review.
Week 18 05/03-05/06 FINAL EXAM
(May 3, Lindley 102, 7:15-9:15pm)

Class Resources and Materials

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