Class Outline

Week 1 (Feb. 7-Feb. 11)	Basic Unix Monday: Intro Introductions Class overview Survey handout Initial login and intro to netscape Tuesday: Start Unix What is an OS? Why Linux? Directory structure Commands: cd, absolute and relative paths, ls, pwd Hand out exercise 1 Wednesday: Finish Unix Intro Commands: rm, mkdir, cat, man, alias, more, less Help with exercise 1 in lab Thursday: vi, Grep and Regular Expressions Why vi? vi Commands: starting, exiting, insert, others Using grep Command line wildcard characters Help with exercise 1 in lab Quiz Material unix commands: ls, cd, mkdir, rm, cp, grep vi: how to save file in vi and quit vi Reference Material unix and vi information VERY basic UNIX tutorial - 1 page intro VERY basic vi tutorial Mastering the VI editor
Week 2 (Feb. 14-Feb. 18)	Basic Web and HTML Monday: Intro Overview of client-server idea: DNS, TCP, HTTP Explain how web browsers parse HTML to display things Turnin Exercise 1 Quiz 1 Start Exercise 2 (using various HTML elements) Tuesday: HTML Tags: html, title, headers(h1,h2,...), body, p Various lists Tables Work on exercise 2 Wednesday: more HTML Tags: comments, em, b, font, others? background colors, point them to color table below anchors Add these elements to own web page for exercise 2 Thursday: more HTML still gifs Quiz2 on HTML stuff Final chance to turnin Exercise 1 Exercise 2 due Quiz2 Material html tags: html, title, h1, body, anchor, ul importance of comments What does DNS stand for? What is the difference between TCP and HTTP? Reference Material Background Color table NCSA HTML Primer HTML Tables Tutorial HTML Chapter
Week 3 (Feb. 21-Feb. 24)	Basic Programming Monday: President's Day Tuesday: Basic Programming Basic programming concepts: computers are stupid, commenting is very important Variables, assignment, operations(+), function calls Start Exercise 3: modified hello worlds in many languages C and C++ code Wednesday: Python and Unix scripting Explain what interpreted language means Explain that there are many unix shells. Maybe how to switch, what some of the differences are? There shell is tcsh. Give code for sample program in Unix script and Python. Show how to run. Thursday: Why so many languages? Help work on exercise 3 Reference Material Python
Week 4 (Feb. 28-March 2)	Starting Java Applet Programming Monday: Intro Exercise 3. Write code for Perl and Java on board. Show how to compile and run. Tuesday: Introduce students to how to write a Java applet. Give out Exercise 4, start of Java 'Hello World' which shows various elements of an applet. Those that finish early give a more complicated assignment: Scribble Wednesday: Expand on HelloWorld Java applet. Thursday: Give quiz3 on programming. Turn in exercise 3 and 4. Quiz 3 Material be able to write out hello world for one language what is the comment character in C, C++, Java, Unix scripting, Python and Perl? What are the steps involved in creating an applet? Be able to tell the result of some simple function calls and variable assignments. Be able to recognize accessor functions and constructors. Reference Material The Java Tutorial Java 101 Perl
Week 5 (March 6 - March 9)	More Java Applet Programming: Simple Applet Monday: Intro Exercise 5. Introduce Simple applet. Tuesday: Mousedown code Give out more complicated assignment to those who finish Simple early. Wednesday: Some Java graphics Thursday: Exercise 4 due today (extended from last week). Quiz 4 Quiz 4 Material When are init, start, stop, and destroyed called? (init: upon loading applet, on refresh applet; start: upon loading, refresh applet, and when coming back to page; stop: when leaving page, on refresh applet; destroy: on refresh applet) What 3 files are needed for an applet? What is the applet tag in the html file look like for Simple.class? Reference Material
Week 6 (March 13-March 16)	Introduction to CGI Programming with PHP Monday: Intro Exercise 5 due. What is CGI scripting? Hello World in PHP Tuesday: Useful PHP functions and arrays Wednesday: How a PHP script receives input HTML forms and PHP Thursday: Quiz 5 Turn in exercise 6. Quiz 5 Material What does CGI stand for? What file extension should a PHP file have so that the web server recognizes it as such? What HTML tags do you use to designate php code? What is the HTML tag to specify a form and the script to handle the form? Reference Material Basic CGI CGI Specification PHP Home Page HTML Forms Tutorial Apache & PHP
Week 7 (March 20-March 23)	MySQL Introduction Monday: Intro Exercise 7. Simple MySQL activities like creating a table, inserting elements, updating elements, etc. Intro to Databases: schema, SQL, etc. Tuesday: How to create queries with SQL Wednesday: How to create tables How to modify data Thursday: Give quiz6 on MySQL. Turn in exercise 7 Quiz 6 Material What is a database? Give an example of how it can be used. Give the schema of a relation. What is the most common language used to access a relational database? What is the acronym and what does it stand for? Be able to list the result of an SQL query and be able to write a query to figure out some information. Reference Material MySQL home page SQL tutorial Another SQL tutorial
Week 7,8,&9 (April 3-13, April 24-27)	program1: Jaleks Reference Material Java Reference
Week 10,11,&12 (May 1-18)	program2: MySQL and PHP Monday (May 1): Step 1 Tuesday (May 2): Step 2 Wednesday (May 3): Step 3 Thursday (May 4): Step 4 Monday (May 8): Lab day Tuesday (May 9): Step 5a Wednesday (May 10): Canceled due to AP test Thursday (May 11): Lab day Monday (May 15): Step 6 Tuesday (May 16): Step 7 Wednesday (May 17): Step 8 Thursday (May 18): Program 2 due at end of the day Reference Material PHP Home Page HTML Forms Tutorial MySQL home page
Week 13,14,&15 (May 22-June 8) Review	program3: Putting it all together See Lectures for a schedule.