CIS 4344: Advanced Web Application Design and Scripting
Fall 2012
Welcome to CIS 4344. Your instructor is David Lefkovitz. I can be reached at
· Office 315 Wachman Hall
· Telephone 215-204-5550
· e-mail d.lefkovitz@temple.edu
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Course Objective
The objective of this course is to provide the student with
the principal design techniques and associated implementation languages for
creating static and dynamic web displays and for both client and server side
processing via scripting and an object oriented, event driven language. It will present the basic internet
connectivity of the browser client and web server. It will show how client languages interact
with programs running on the web server.
Students will learn the rudiments of a server side language in order for
them create projects for the complete client/server cycle. Elementary database design and programming
technique will be incorporated in order to demonstrate some realistic
applications. In order to do this,
students will use a number of languages and tools. Some they will have learned in the prerequisite
courses and some will be taught. Online
tutorials and reference manuals will be made available for all languages used
in the course. The languages to be used
will be Javascript and the Document Object Model (
A number of tools will be used to enhance productivity. These are web design and programming tools
like the Microsoft Expressions suite, Visual Studio, and the Sql Server
Database Management Studio. The basics
of web design will also be taught. This
will include page layout and structure using Frames,
Special client/server software architectures and communication mechanisms will be introduced, such as the Multitier architecture, cookies, the request and response objects, and the basics of event oriented programming.
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Languages and Course
Resources
The basic prerequisite knowledge of the course is
the use of web based client/server language systems involving XHTML, Javascript
and ASP.
Resources for learning and using these languages are:
(1) The Text Book
(2) The website that you are currently reading, referred to as the WebNotes.
(4) Intellisensing within Visual Studio and Web Expressions
Internet & WorldWide Web. How to Program., 4th Edition. By P.J Deitel and H.M. Deitel., Published by Pearson, Prentice Hall., 2008, ISBN: 0-13-175242-1.
The examples in the book can be downloaded from:
http://media.pearsoncmg.com/ph/esm/deitel/IW3HTP4e/examples/
You are given the option
there of downloading all of them via one Zip file or downloading only the
chapters that you need, one by one. The
single Zip file is very large (250MB) and will take a long time depending on
the speed of your connection. My advice,
since you don’t need all of them anyway, is to downloaded those you need. You
will see which examples you will need from the WebNotes.
The book can also be viewed online at http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/9780136085645 .
The course is very lab intensive. 65% of the grade will be based upon assigned programming exercises and the term project. A midterm exam comprises 15% and a final exam/project the remaining 20%.
The
first five lab assignments are each weighted by relative difficulty. Each assignment will be given a letter
grade. These are then converted to the
GPA numeric equivalent from 0 to 4, weighted by the Assignment Weight shown in
the Project Schedule, summed and divided by
16, which is the total of the Assignment Weights, and multiplied by 0.65. The exams are graded in the same way, making
up the other 35%, and is added to the numeric score of the projects. The result is a number from 0 to 4, which is
converted back to a letter grade for the course. The formula is:
0.65*(Swigi)/16
+ 0.15*m + 0.2*f
where
wi is the weight of the lab assignment i, gi
is the numeric grade of Lab Assignment i, m is the numeric grade of the midterm exam, and f is the numeric grade of the final
exam. The final exam is the sixth
project plus a small exam.
Each
assignment has a deadline, shown in the Due Date
column of the Project Schedule. Submission policy is that an assignment
turned in by the Due Date gets the full letter
grade. It can be turned in up to one
week late but will be downgraded by 1 letter grade. It will not be accepted after the Late Date. Note
that Project 6 has no Late Date.
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The Course Map
Most of the information that you will need for this course can be obtained by a navigation process through the Course Map. This map contains the following sections:
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Syllabus
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Schedules
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Lecture
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Project Assignment
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Accounts
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Reference Material
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Schedules and Accounts
The Lecture Schedule presents a series of Lecture units, textbook readings and links to more detailed lecture material.
The Project Schedule presents the 6 lab assignments and their due dates. These have been described above under Grading.
The Accounts describe the servers, home directories, websites and databases on 3 server machines.
(1) A home directory is assigned on the G drive under the student’s tuAN (TU Account Number). This server is cis-files2.temple.edu. The source files for the various projects are stored there at cis-files2.temple.edu\users\TuAN. A shared directory, called Board (J Drive) provides a means for the Instructor to distribute programs or files to the class. This is at cis-files2.temple.edu\Board\cis4344
(2) Each student will have a virtual web root for Web Applications on. This web site is at http://cis-iis2.temple.edu/Fall2012/4344nn. A subweb structure can be developed under the web root for the various projects. This is explained further under the Servers link from the Map.
(3)
The DBMS is SQL Server, which runs on Dwarf.cis.temple.edu. Each student will be assigned a Database,
named FA12_4344nn
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Reference Material
Finally, the Reference Material section will
give you links to OnLine references and some hard copy references. The OnLine references are classified by major
topics, such as HTML, ASP.
Good Luck and enjoy the course.