CAPITOL COLLEGE

 

 

CT366 E01

 

 

Web Programming Languages

 

Fall 2007

 

TIME & LOCATION: Monday 5:00PM to 7:40PM, Room M103 (new building)

 

REQUIRED TEXT: none

 

REFERENCE TEXT: The Web Warrior Guide to Web Programming, by Bai, Ekedahl, …

 

GOALS AND OUTCOMES:  Being able to design a dynamic web site in many programming languages

 

COURSE SUMMARY AND SCHEDULE:  This is a 3-credit course.

Overview of several programming languages for the web: PHP, Java Server Pages, Java Servlets; AJAX,

Google maps from the programmer's perspective. If time allows, quick overview of ASP, Python, C# or VBScript. 

Basics of the various languages, form processing, database access, counters, templates, cookies, hidden fields, …

 

 

WEEK OF

CHAPTER

TOPICS  (Tentative Schedule of Topics)           

EVENTS

1

Aug 20

1, 17

Syllabus presentation ; overview of the course

Unix, HTML, Intro to PHP

 

 

2

Aug 27

17

PHP

 

 

 

 

3

Sept 3

 

 

No class – Labor day

 

 

4

Sept 10

17

Database review, PHP

 

Quiz 1

5

Sept 17

17

PHP

 

6

Sept 24

 

Javascript

Quiz 2

7

Oct 1

 

Ajax

Midterm 1

8

Oct 8

13, 14

 

Java Review

 

9

Oct 15

15, 16

Java Server Pages

 

Quiz 3

10

Oct 22

15, 16

Java Server Pages

 

11

Oct 29

15, 16

Java Servlets

Quiz 4

12

Nov 5

15, 16

Java Servlets

 

 

13

Nov 12

 

Large project using PHP: specification, database, ..

 

Midterm 2

14

Nov 19

 

Large project using PHP: PHP classes

Quiz 5

15

Nov 26

 

Large project using PHP: PHP scripts

 

16

Dec 3

7, 8

Python, C#, Review for final exam

 

Quiz 6

17

Dec 10-14

 

Final exam

 

 

 Last day to drop a course without a W grade is September 17, 2007

 Last day to drop a course is October 30, 2007

 


PROFESSOR:

Hervé Franceschi

M202

X 3613

 

 

 

hfranceschi@capitol-college.edu

 

 

 

http://faculty.capitolcollege.edu/hfranceschi/ 

 

Software:  provided on the leda (or other) server, including Linux, Apache, Perl, PHP, Java (outside server), Python. Every student will get an account.

 

Lab Facilities:  each student will get an account on a Capitol College server

 

Getting Help:  Please feel free to ask questions during class as necessary.  For additional help, visit me

during my office hours or by appointment, or call me at the above given numbers, or send me an email.

 

Office Hours: 

DAYS

HOURS

Monday

11:30PM to 1:10PM and 2:40PM to 5:00PM

Tuesday

10:30AM to 11:00AM and 12:30PM to 1:10PM

Wednesday

11:30PM to 1:10PM

Thursday

10:30AM to 11:00AM and 12:30PM to 1:10PM

 

 

SEMESTER GRADES:

Projects (3 or 4)

25%

<A: 90-100%>

 

Quizzes (6)

10%

<B: 80-89%>

 

Midterm 1

15%

<C: 70-79%>

 

Midterm 2

15%

<D: 60-69%>

 

Final

20%

<F: < 60%>

 

Class project

15%

 

 

Total

100%

 

 

Homework:  There are 3 or 4 individual projects and 1 class project in this class; the individual projects must be completed individually.  You must completely understand all work that you submit; you must be able to provide explanations for all work that you submit.

 

Assignments:     As a general rule, all assignments must be completed to pass the course. 

Late assignments : Loss of 11% per week late.  Example: perfect assignment 3 days late = grade of 89

Very late assignments may be handed in with your final exam at the end of the semester for a

maximum grade of 40%.

 

QUIZZES:  There are 6 quizzes total; you can drop your worst quiz grade (i.e. only your 5 best

quizzes will count).  No make ups will be allowed.

 

TESTS & FINAL:  There are 3 tests in this class:  2 midterms and 1 final.  The final is cumulative.

Make ups are possible in exceptional circumstances provided advance notice and suitable

documentation is provided to me.  Unless otherwise stated, make-ups must be completed

within 1 week of the original exam date. Both the midterm and the final are closed books, open personal

handwritten notes (i.e. you cannot have notes that are copied from another source, and they must be

handwritten by you ; you cannot have handouts).

 

 

ATTENDANCE:  Attendance is important; a lot of labs are scheduled for this class and a lot of learning will happen in the classroom.  Please send me an email if you are going to miss a lecture.

 

WRITING REQUIREMENTS: The ability to communicate ideas using established rules of the English language is an important outcome of everyone’s technical education.  In this course, you will be required to complete assignments for which writing is an important component, and attention to the grammar, spelling, and style of writing that you employ will have a significant impact on your grade in such assignments.  You may seek help at the tutoring resource center to improve your writing abilities, should you feel that such help is necessary. 

 

INFORMATION  LITERACY: Given the magnitude of information that we are expected to deal with in performance of our tasks, it is important to learn the proper ways of finding, retrieving, storing, processing and incorporating the right type of information.  This course may include assignments that would require the use of on-campus and on-line libraries, the Internet or other sources of publicly available information.

 

OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT:  In order to determine the level of learning achieved in this course through the semester, you will be given a pre-test that covers some of the fundamental topics covered in this course and possibly in the prerequisite courses, accompanied by an exit test toward the end of the semester.  The grades you receive in the pre-test and exit test will not affect your overall grade for this course.  They are used for the sole purpose of institutional assessment of learning outcomes.    

 

THE "INCOMPLETE" GRADE: There is occasionally a misunderstanding about “incompletes.”  College regulation specifies that an incomplete grade may be awarded only if the student has completed almost all the work for a course and has a valid, institution-approved, reason for being unable to complete it.  If you are awarded an incomplete grade, it is your responsibility to complete all work for the course within the first 4 weeks of the next semester or summer term.  After this time, the Registrar automatically converts the incomplete to an F.

 

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY:  It goes without saying that all work handed in for grading must be your own, but you must go further than this.  Avoid situations that could compromise your integrity.   For example, do not allow others to copy your work.  If inclusion of another person’s writings in your submitted work is appropriate, then proper credit should be given to the author of that writing.  I will report any instance of suspected academic dishonesty to the appropriate committees of the school for further investigation and possible sanctions.

 

USE OF MATLAB:   Not applicable

 

First Homework Assignment:  From the email address that you most frequently use, send me an email to my address at hfranceschi@capitol-college.edu  with the following format:

Subject: CT366

Content:  Your first name, last name, and major

Please remember to type the course number in the subject area of all future mail that you send me.

BODY: Make sure you have a body which makes sense, particularly if there is an attachment with your email; I do not open attachment if I am not comfortable with the body of an email.

 

Web Site:  I will maintain a web site for this course that can be reached from the following address:

http://faculty.capitol-college.edu/hfranceschi/.  Starting from this homepage you can follow the appropriate links to see postings for assignments, homework, examples, etc. related to this course.  This syllabus is also posted on line.