CS500 Java Programming & Web Design – Fall 2008

Contents

• General information
• Course Materials
• Topic & Schedule
• Assignments
• Grading
• Communication
• Lecture notes (Ask the instructor for the UserID/Passwd)

General Information

Instructor:

Jiang B. Liu, jiangbo@bradley.edu

Professor of Computer Science & Information Systems

Phone: (309)6772386

Lecture Times:

10:30-11:45pm, Tues Thurs, Brd 150

Prerequisites:

CS121 Introduction to Data Structures

Or

Equivalent

Office Hours:
3:00-4:30pm, Mon, Wed; 1:30-3:00pm Tue, Thur, BR177

           or by appointment.

Course Materials

• Required
• Java How to Program, 7th Edition
  by H.M. Deitel and P.J. Deitel
• CGI Programming with Perl, 2nd Edition
  by S. Guelich, S. Gundavaram, and G. Birznieks
• PHP and MySQL, 2nd Edition
  by H.E. Williams & D. Lane

Topics & Schedule

The goals of the course are to provide students with fundamentals of web design and Java programming, client/server computing architectures, and to implement the basic web programming. The client/server programs will be coded in HTML/JavaScript, Perl, PHP and Java, and tested in Apache HTTP Web server.
 

Unit 1  Introduction to Web Programming	Internet and WWW Web protocol: HTTP  Client/Server Architecture Web computing with CGI Web Scripting with PHP Web programming with Java	Java How to Program: Ch. 1 CGI Programming: Ch. 1-3 PHP & MySQL: Ch. 1
Unit 2  CGI Programming with Perl OO Programming with PHP	CGI/Perl: -CGI Basics -Forms and CGI server -Client side: HTML, Java Script -Server side: Perl Program PHP: -PHP Scripting Language -PHP Data Structures -PHP Classes	CGI Programming: Ch. 4-7 PHP & MySQL: Ch. 2-4
Unit 3  CGI Applications PHP Applications	CGI/Perl: -Security -Sending Email -Data Persistence -Maintaining State -Search the Web server PHP: -Querying Web Databases -Update Web Databases -Session Management -Security -Reporting	CGI Programming: Ch. 8-12 PHP & MySQL: Ch. 6,8,10,11,13
Unit 4  Java Programming	Java Application & Applet	Java How to Program: Ch. 2, Ch. 20-21
Unit 5  Java Language Basics	Classes and Objects Control Statements Methods Arrays Object-oriented Programming   - Inheritance   - Polymorphism	Java How to Program: Ch. 3-10
Unit 6  Java GUI	Graphics and Java2D GUI	Java How to Program: Ch. 11-12, 22
Unit 7  Java Language Advanced Features	Exception Handing Files and Streams Multithreading Networking	Java How to Program: Ch. 13-14, 23-24
Unit 8 Java Computing  (More details covered in CS530)	JDBC Servlet JSP XML	Java How to Program: Ch. 25-27 CGI Programming: Ch. 14

Assignments

• Assignment 1: HTML/JavaScript, CGI/Perl/Apache
• Assignment 2: PHP/Apache/MySQL
• Assignment 3: Java GUI Client, Java TCP/IP Server, JDBC/MySQL
• Final Exam: Available at 12:00 noon on Dec 12 (Friday), 2008; Return at 12:00 noon on Dec 13 (Saturday).

All assignments are due in the class on the due day.
Later homework will have 10% subtracted from the score for every late day.

Grading

- Assignments:            60%
- Final Exam:              40%
(90-100 A; 80-89 B; 70-79 C; 60-69 D; below 60 F)

Communication

This class home page is posted at "http://hilltop.bradley.edu/~jiangbo/" and will be used to post the assignments and other class information.
You are also encouraged email me about your questions related to the course or share related information with the class.