CT 310: Web Development

Department of Computer Science
Spring 2007

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Progress of the course is covered here, including reading assignments and links to lecture notes as available.

• Week 1, Jan 14 - 20:
  • Lecture 1: Introduction (pdf)
    • Introduction to the course, brief history of the net and networking overview.
    • Quicktime movie (38MB) of traceroute flyover to Moscow University (made with 3DIP).
  • Lecture 2: HTML and XHTLM Overview, Mechanics of editors, remote shells, browsers, etc. (pdf)
    • Read chapters 1 & 2 before lecture.
• Week 2, Jan 21 - 27:
  • Lecture 3: XHTML Basics (pdf)
    • We covered XHTML headers and basic formatting tags.
    • Source XHTML is available for the examples used in lecture.
    • We also briefly discussed CygWin to aid using personal PCs with Department Machines.
  • Lecture 4: Links and Tables (pdf)
    • Read chapter 3 before lecture.
    • In class examples.
• Week 3, Jan 28 - Feb 3:
  • Lecture 5: Layout with divisions (pdf)
    • We will also finish last part on tables.
    • Read chapter 9.
    • In class examples.
  • Lecture 6: Introduction to style sheets. (pdf) (Andy Curtis)
    • Read chapter 10.
    • In class examples.
• Week 4, Feb 4 - 10:
  • Lecture 7: Images (pdf)
    • Read chapter 4.
    • Image basic including color, color tables, GIF and transparency.
    • In class examples.
  • Lecture 8: Images continued (pdf)
    • JPEG, PNG and alpha channels, i.e. opacity.
    • In class examples.
• Week 5, Feb 11 - 17:
  • Lecture 9: More Images (pdf)
    • Image placement revisited, image rollovers, image maps and more about GIMP.
    • In class examples.
  • Lecture 10: Web Design - Basics (pdf)
    • Read chapter 7 before lecture.
• Week 6, Feb 18 - 24:
  • Lecture 10: Midterm 1
    • Midterm 1 copy with answers.
  • Lecture 11: Web Design continued. (pdf)
• Week 7, Feb 25 - Mar 3:
  • Lecture 12: PHP Basics (pdf)
    • PHP Examples written by Tar Ralph
    • A tar file of Tar's Examples.
  • Lecture 13: PHP Basics Continued
• Week 8, Mar 4 - Mar 10:
  • Lecture 14: HTML Forms. (pdf)
    • Read Chapter 6 through Section 6.3
    • HTML Forms Examples.
  • Lecture 15: PHP - W3C Validation, Checkerboard Example. (pdf)
    • PHP Examples.
• Spring Break:
• Week 9, Mar 18 - Mar 24:
  • Lecture 16: More PHP, PHP and Forms Together (pdf)
    • PHP Portion of the Example worked out in class. (zip) (tar)
  • Lecture 17: A Bit More PHP (pdf)
    • Variable size checkerboard (zip) (tar)
    • Trigonometry Snake (zip) (tar)
• Week 10, Mar 25 - Mar 31
  • Lecture 18: Introduction to MySQL. (pdf)
  • Lecture 19: More on MySQL.
    • First simple Music Example in MySQL.
    • Second simple Music Example in MySQL.
• Week 11, Apr 1 - Apr 7
  • Lecture 20: MySQL and PHP. (pdf)
    • Lecture example zip file.
  • Lecture 21: Midterm 2
    • Midterm 2 with answers.
    • Here is the Tic Tac Toe Game (zip)
    • Here is sql source and php for Ireland Example (zip) (tar)
• Week 12, Apr 8 - Apr 14
  • Lecture 22: More MySQL and PHP
  • Lecture 23: Media, Particularly Audio (pdf)
    • Read Chapter 11.
    • Examples
• Week 13: Apr 15 - Apr 21
  • Lecture 24: Guest Lecture on Flash
  • Lecture 25: Media continued, Flash MP3 Players
    • The examples from Lecture 23 now include Flash MP3 Players
• Week 14: Apr 22 - Apr 28
  • Lecture 26: Web Media Continued, Flash and Java (pdf)
    • Examples
  • Lecture 27: Dynamic HTML and Javascript in particular (pdf)
    • Read Chapter 11 on Javascript and all of Chapter 14.
    • Rember to review carefully examples with Chapter 11.
    • Also, now Spinny works in JavaScript.
• Week 15: Apr 29 - May 5
  • Lecture 28: Q & A Session with Chris Weller, and Adam Warren, University Webmaster and Web Developler.
    • See Homework 5 for Questions.
  • Lecture 29: Last Lecture - Odds and Ends, Semester Wrapup. (pdf)
    • PHP Sanitizing Input, MySQL Injection, Google Analytics and Favicons.
    • Here is the PHP source used for Homework 5 and shown in class. (tar) (zip)
• Week 16: Final Exam
  • Thursday, May 10, 11:20 to 1:20.
    • Here is the Answer Key

Last Update: Sunday, May 13, 2007