Syllabus

CS320 Web and Internet Programming

Fall 2005
Computer Science Department
California State University, Los Angeles

Lectures:

Tuesday and Thursday 11:40am - 1:20pm, in E&T A210

Instructor:

Chengyu Sun
Email: csun@calstatela.edu
Office: E&T A317
Office Hours: MW 4-6pm and TR 10-11:30am, or by appointment, in E&T A317

Course Description:

This course introduces students to server-side programming, which is essential for providing dynamic content on the web. Among the many existing web technologies, we will focus on Java servlets and JSP technologies, especially Java beans, expression language, JDBC, JSTL, and custom tag libraries.

Prerequisites:

CS120, CS122, CS245, and CS203
Students are expected to have strong Java programming skills, and working knowledge of HTML.

Textbook(s):

Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages, Vol. 1: Core Technologies, by Marty Hall and Larry Brown
Optional:

JavaServer Pages (3rd Edition), by Hans Bergsten
Professional JSP, by Karl Avedal et al.

Software Tools:

Required - Email, J2SE 1.5.x, Tomcat 5.5.x, and MySQL 4.1.x.
Optional (for access online lecture notes) - Adobe Acroread and/or MS PowerPoint

Grading Policy:

Homework and projects 50%, Labs 10%, Midterm 20%, Final 20%

90 - 100
80 - 90
60 - 80
40 - 60
below 40

A
B
C
D
F

Schedule:

Week	Topics	Chapters
0	Administrative issues Introduction to server-side programming Tomcat setup and configuration Development on a Linux server	1 2
1	Servlet basics Handling HTTP requests	3 19, 4, 5
2	Generating HTTP response Cookies and session tracking	6, 7 8, 9
3	JSP directives and scripting elements Java beans	10, 11, 12 14
4	Expression Language (EL) JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL)	16
5	Lab 1: Bean, EL, and JSTL Working with multiple JSP pages	13
6	MIDTERM
7	Database access	17, 18
8	Custom tag libraries Lab 2: DB and Custom taglib
9	Web applications and MVC	15
10	Introduction to PHP, ASP, or RoR
11	FINAL

Online Resources:

Class home page - http://sun.calstatela.edu/~cysun/www/teaching/cs320/index.html
Class forum - http://acm.calstatela.edu/forum/viewforum.php?f=29
Web site of the textbook where all the source code in the book and an early version of the book are available - http://www.coreservlets.com/#CSAJSP2
J2EE

THE J2EE 1.4 Tutorial - http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/tutorial/doc/
Servlet 2.4 API - http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/servletapi/overview-summary.html
JSP 2.0 API, including API for custom taglibs - http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/jspapi/index.html
JSTL 1.1 API - http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/jstl/1.1/docs/api/
JSTL 1.1 Tag Reference - http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/jstl/1.1/docs/tlddocs/index.html
JSP 2.0 Specification, including Expression Language (pdf)
Java Servlet 2.4 Specification (pdf)

Java Basics

THE Java tutorial - http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/
Java 2 SE API documentation - http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/overview-smary.html
Code Conventions for Java Programming Language - http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/html/CodeConvTOC.doc.html

Database Access

MySQL Reference Manual - http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/index.html

SUN's JDBC 3.0 documentation, including tutorials and API specifications - http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/jdbc/

HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS

RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.1

HTML 4.01 Specification - http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/cover.html#minitoc

JavaScript References - http://devedge.netscape.com/central/javascript/
CSS Tutorial - http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

Unix command tutorials

Unix tutorial for beginners - http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/
Unix tutorial from Univ of Utah - http://www.math.utah.edu/lab/unix/unix-tutorial.html
Unix tutorial from Caltech - http://www.its.caltech.edu/its/facilities/labsclusters/unix/unixtutorial.shtml

Academic Integrity:

Cheating will not be tolerated. Cheating on any assignment or exam will be taken seriously. All parties involved will receive a grade of F for the course and be reported to the Academic Senate.