COP 3813 (2007 Spring) Intro. to Internet Computing
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: Some of the content are copied from Prof. Ray Levow and Prof. Sam Hsu's course website. Their support and constructive comments are highly appreciated!
Announcement
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Instructor: Dr. Xingquan (Hill) Zhu
Class Time: Tuesday & Thursday 12:30-1:50 PM
Classroom: GS 111
Office Hour: Tuesday, Thursday 2:00 - 3:30PM
Textbook: Internet & World Wide Web How to Program (3rd Edition), Prentice Hall, 2004, ISBN: 0131450913.
Customer Reviews from Amazon
Other Useful Resources:
Programming the World Wide Web, Robert Sebesta, Pearson, 2006, ISBN 0-321-30332-6
- On-line Tutorials at W3Schools
- Element summaries from W3Schools: XHTML 1.0 , CSS 2.0
- Recommendations at W3C: XHTML 1.0 , CSS 2.0 (Note: These are complex technical documents. The details for XHTML are in the DTDs that are coded in XML. The language specification for CSS uses BNF.)
- Validation Service at W3C: XHTML
Course Description:
In this course, students will be introduced to principles, development and design of web applications, and gain hands-on experience in this area.
Issues such as the basic concept of computer networks and Internet, XHTML, Dynamic web programming, Client/Server side script, Web-based database systems will be addressed. The course is project oriented. Students are required to finish several Internet-based projects by using the tools/concepts introduced in the class.
Depending on the overall performanc, a term project may be required.
Topics:
- Introduction
- Introduction to Computer Networks
- Introduction to Internet and WWW
- XHTML
- Cascading Style Sheets
- Client Side Programming
- Server Side Programming
- XML
Lectures, Assignments, and Projects
Course lectures by week
Homeworks
Projects
Resources
Grading policy:
| Quizzes |
10 |
| Homework |
40 |
| Term project |
20 |
| Final |
30 |
Your final grade will be based on the scores you have earned from the above categories (compared to the performance of other students in the class).
Late policy:
All assignments are due midnight on the assigned due date. Please refer to the Assignments and Projects for details on submission. Late submission is allowable, however, the late penalty is -2pts/day.
Communication:
All important course communication will be done using your fau.edu email address. Sending email to me from another account is disencouraged, and if you do you must set the reply-to field to your FAU email account if the message concerns grading or evaluation in any way. You must also include your name in all messages concerning the course.
If you have your FAU email forwarded to an AOL or other email account, read this important notice concerning blocking of FAU email.
All work in this course must be INVIDUAL effort unless specified otherwise.