Michael Robinson FIU Teaching

CGS 4854 Website Construction and Management
Book's WebSite

Professor	Michael Robinson
Email	michael.robinson@cs.fiu.edu
Webpage	www.cs.fiu.edu/~mrobi002/teaching
Tel	305-348-7523
Office	ECS 212 D

Course Title	Website Construction and Management
Course Number	CGS 4854
Credits	3
Class Type	Required
Prerequisites	COP3804 or COP3337 with a minimum grade of C. Those who do not have a C in one of these classes will be dropped from the course during the first week of class. CGS3559 or equivalent knowledge.
Co-requisites	None
Class Policies	FIU Academic Affairs policy on academic dishonesty

Credits

Class Type

Core Class - Required

Pre-requisites

COP2250 or COP2210 with a minimum grade of C. Those who have less than a C in one of these classes will be dropped from the course during the first week of class.

Co-requisites

None

Goals

My goal is to make sure you learn, working together on programs is PERMITTED, however, each program MUST BE UNIQUE, ALL PROGRAMS THAT ARE COPIES WILL GET A GRADE OF ZERO (0)

Class Type

Core Class - Required

Attendance

Attendance will be taken.

Not everything I teach in this class is in the book.

Simple Rules

All programs MUST be done in the computers provided by FIU or in your own laptop and presented in class or in the lab when appropiate.

All programs MUST be named:
last name + first Name initial + pgm1, 2, 3 or 4.
ex: SmithJpgm1.java SmithJpgm1.c SmithJpgm1.html

Your email MUST have your name on it.
FIU, ElHombre, TheItGuy, etc are NOT accepted.

On your email's subject write:
Your class name and email's purpose: OS1 pgm1, WEB2 pgm4

Email me your source programs ONLY, attached. DO NOT COPY AND PASTE.

Your programs must compile using the terminal mode.

Programs with warnings will NOT be accepted. I will not debug your programs.

Do not change the names of the files I provide.

Programs turned in after the due date are NOT accepted.

Any modification to your grades MUST be done no later than ONE week after grades are posted in Moodle.

Tools Required - FREE

Computers in the ECS and PG6 labs contain all necessary programs for this course.

You can also use your own computers using the following software:

Windows and other OS: Putty
Allows you to have full remote control of your FIU server
Create Account:

At Host Name (or IP address) : serverName.cs.fiu.edu

Port : 22

Select SSH

Save Session : enter a name for this account

Windows: WinSCP
Allows you to Create/Delete/Upload/Download folders/files to/from your FIU server
Create Account:

At Session Section on right side

Host name (or IP address) : serverName.cs.fiu.edu

Port number : 22

User name : Your user name

File protocol : SFTP

Save session as : enter a name for this account

Linux: SecPanel
Allows you to have full remote control of your FIU server

Linux or Windows or Mac or Solaris: FileZilla
Allows you to Create/Delete/Upload/Download folders/files to/ from your FIU server

Hosting Your Website At FIU is Required:
Your website at FIU MUST be hosted at ocelot.aul.fiu.edu/~username
Instructions will be given in class.

Recommended:
Also Host Your Website in Your Own Computer
Creating your own local host site, allows you to develop your website in your own computer before uploading it to FIU.
No internet access is required to do your development.
It also allows you to take your work with you at the end of the semester, and be able to present it during job interviews.

Windows: Wamp
Allows you to create, in your local computer, a local Apache web server, including HTML, PHP and mysql databases.
No Internet access is required.
Access to your website is allowed to your local computer only.

Linux: Lamp
Allows you to create, in your local computer, a local Apache web server, including HTML, PHP and mysql databases.
No Internet access is required.
Access to your website is allowed to your local computer only.

Mac: Mamp
Allows you to create, in your local computer, a local Apache web server, including HTML, PHP and mysql databases.
No Internet access is required.
Access to your website is allowed to your local computer only.

Grading

4 Exams 17 points each = 68 points

4 Programs 8 points each = 32 points

Total = 100 points

Pass     Fail

A = 100-95   C- = 69-66

A- = 94-90   D+ = 65-60

B+ = 89-87   D = 59-56

B = 86-83   D- = 55-51

B- = 82-80   F = 50-0

C+ = 79-76

C = 75-70

Assignments

Assignments must be turned in at the start of class on the due dates.
I do not accept late assignments without a valid reason.

Include the following header in every program

**************************************************
Author : Your Name
Course : Course Name and Times
Professor: Michael Robinson
Program : Program Number, Purpose/Description
A brief description of the program
Due Date : mm/dd/yyyy

I certify that this work is my own alone.

..........{ your signature }..........
**************************************************

Schedule for classes held on Tuesdays and Thrusdays
Important Dates

Tutorial 1 To be done in Class and the Lab
Project 1 Due Thursday January 24th, 2013 at beginning of Class.

Exam 1 Thursday January 31th, 2013 (covering Project 1 plus class material)

Tutorial 2 To be done in Class and the Lab

Program 2 Due Thursday Feb 21th at beginning of Class.

Exam 2 On Feb 28th (covering Program 2 plus chapters 1, and 2 )

Tutorial 3 To be done in Class and the Lab

Program 3 Due Thursday April 4th, 2013 at beginning of Class.

Exam 3 Thursday April 16th, 2013 (covering Project 3 plus class material)

Tutorial 4 To be done in Class and the Lab

Program 4 Thursday April 18, 2013 at beginning of Class.

Final Exam Tuesday April 23rd, 2013 7:15PM - 9:15PM ECS classroom 136 (covering all Projects all exams and all Class material)

Course Description:

The fundamentals of creating and maintaining a website.

Installation and maintenance of a web-server.

Techniques for building multimedia interactive web-pages.

Required Text
Web Development with Java
Using Hibernate, JSPs and Servlets
Downey, Tim
ISBN: 978-1-84628-862-3

Expected Course Outcomes

Be familiar with JSP

Master Servlets

Master the design of basic web pages

Be familiar with the use of CSS 1 style sheets

Be familiar with the configuration of the Apache Web Server

Projected Schedule (COULD BE MODIFIED)
Chapters

Browser-Server Communication

Front End : JSP - HTML

Others Topics not Covered in the Book

MVC = Model View Controller

Front End, Controller, Back End

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

Controllers

PHP

mySQL Databases

Advanced HTML and Form Elements (AS TIME ALLOWS)

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