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Reading assignments are listed for the day when the material is first explained in class. You may read ahead the material ahead of the lecture or after, either way is fine.
Problem sets and labs are individual work, unless otherwise stated. While it's perfectly OK (and is encouraged) to discuss the problem sets in general terms with others in the class, your solution must be your own work. Copying any part of another person's solution (even if you modify the code) is considered academic dishonesty and will be dealt with according to the university's policy.
It is OK to use code found in a textbook or online, but such use must be credited (i.e. you have to state the exact source of the code and clearly explain how this code was used). Failure to credit the source constitutes academic dishonesty.
Using code samples from the book or from lecture notes as a starting point of your code is perfectly reasonable. However, using large chunks of code "as is" (with a proper credit) may significantly reduce your grade if your own contribution was small. If in doubt about what materials are appropriate to use and how, please ask the instructor.
Project work is done in groups. Members of the same group have free access to each other's code (and are encouraged to pair-program). Make sure to document contributions of each team member (in comments in the code or in a separate file). This will help me to properly grade your work in case the contributions of the team members where uneven. Communications with anyone outside of your group are limited to general discussion only, no code should be shared between groups.
Exams are open book, open notes. You may use the text books, your own notes, and code samples that you find helpful. If you would like to use a different text book on the test, please let me know ahead of time (please bring a copy) and I'll let you know if it it's OK.
Reading abbreviations in the syllabus:
HTML | HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Fifth Edition by Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy |
PHP | Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL, 2nd Edition by Hugh E. Williams, David Lane |
Tuesday | Thursday | |
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Week 1: August 28 - Sept 1 | ||
Course overview. Basics of client/server model. Reading: HTML Ch. 1, PHP Ch. 1 |
Basics of HTML: page layout, headers, paragraphs, links,
lists. Introduction to CSS. Reading: HTML Ch. 2.1 - 2.10, 3.1 - 3.8, 4.1 - 4.10, 5.1 - 5.3, 6.1 - 6.4, 7.1 - 7.4, 10.1 - 10. 2. |
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Week 2: Sept. 4 - 8 | ||
Lab: Formatting HTML with CSS. Reading: HTML Ch. 8 Problem set 1 posted: HTML, CSS. Due Tuesday, Sept. 19 |
HTML & CSS (continue). | |
Week 3: Sept. 11 - 15 | ||
Introduction to PHP, server-side processing, interleaving HTML and
PHP. Reading: PHP Ch. 2 pp. 16 - 28. |
PHP variables. Numbers and strings. | |
Week 4: Sept. 18 - 22 | ||
Lab on PHP. Problem set 1 due Problem set 2 posted: basics of PHP. Due Tuesday, Oct. 3 |
PHP conditionals. Booleans. Reading: PHP Ch. 2 pp. 28-33. |
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Week 5: Sept. 25 - 29 | ||
Loops and arrays. Reading: PHP Ch. 2 pp. 33 - 36, Ch. 3 pp. 57 - 76. |
Lab on conditionals, loops and arrays. |
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Week 6: October 2 - 6 | ||
Functions, global variables, static variables. Reading: PHP Ch. 2 (till the end) Code style and code refactoring. Problem set 2 due Problem set 3 posted: PHP loops, functions, and strings. Due Thursday, Oct. 19. |
More operations with PHP strings; dates and times. Reading: PHP Ch. 3 76 - 87, 97 - 103. Review for the midterm. |
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Week 7: October 9 - 13 | ||
Midterm I |
Databases and SQL. Reading: PHP Ch. 5 |
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Week 8: October 16 - 20 | ||
Fall Break - no class |
PHP and database functions. Pair-programming, documenting code. Reading: PHP Ch. 6 172- 188, 208 - 219 Problem set 3 due Project assignment 1 posted: displaying blog entries. Due Thursday, Nov. 2. |
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Week 9: October 23 - 27 | ||
Project work in the lab. |
HTML forms. Server-side form processing. Reading: HTML Ch. 9, PHP Ch. 6 188- 208 |
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Week 10: October 30 - November 3 |
Validating form data (server side). Writing PHP code in multiple files. Reading: PHP Ch. 9 287 - 307, Ch. 2 51 - 53 |
Storing data in a database. Handling errors. Reading: PHP Ch. 8 Project assignment 1 due Project assignment 2 posted: handling user requests, posting a message. Due Thursday, Nov. 16 April 11. |
Week 11: November 6 - 10 | ||
Sessions and mechanisms for implementing them. PHP support for
sessions. Reading: PHP Ch. 10 |
Session variables. |
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Week 12: November 13 - 17 | ||
PHP authentication. Reading: PHP Ch. 11. |
Project work in the lab. Project assignment 2 due Project assignment 3 posted: commenting; user login. Due Tuesday, Nov. 28. |
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Week 13: November 20 - 24 | ||
Object-oriented programming. Introduction to object-oriented PHP features. Reading: PHP Ch. 4 |
Thanksgiving Holidays - no class | |
Week 14: November 27 - December 1 | ||
Review for the midterm II. Project assignment 3 due Project assignment 4 posted: code refactoring, testing, additional features. Due Thursday, Dec. 7 |
Midterm II. | |
Week 15: December 4 - 8 | ||
Project work in the lab. |
Case study: WordPress. Project assignment 4 due Project assignment 5 posted: testing another group's blog; finalizing your own. Due Tuesday, Dec. 12 and Thursday, Dec. 14 |
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Week 16: December 11 - 14 | ||
Case study: WordPress (cont.) Project assignment 5 (Part 1) due |
Project demonstrations and discussion. Project assignment 5 (Part 2) due. |
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Finished projects due on Tuesday, Dec. 19. |