Syllabus

CS320 Web and Internet Programming

Spring 2004
Computer Science Department
California State University, Los Angeles

Lectures:

Monday and Wednesday 8:00pm - 9:40pm, in E&T A210

Instructor:

Chengyu Sun
Email: csun@calstatela.edu
Office: E&T A317
Office Hour: MTWR 2:00-4:00pm, or by appointment

Course Description:

This course will provide students with an understanding of how to display dynamic content on the web. Dynamic web content has evolved to become common on most web sites, and it is absolutely essential for any web site that would like to generate revenue through the web. Although there are many web technologies in existence, this class will specifically focus on the Java web technologies, while providing an overview of other technologies that should be relatively easy to learn if necessary. [JMiller]

Prerequisites:

CS120, CS122, CS245 and CS203

Textbook(s):

More Servlets and JavaServer Pages, by Marty Hall

Software Tools:

Required - Email, J2SE 1.4.x, Tomcat 5.x, and MySQL.
Optional (for access online lecture notes) - Adobe Acroread and/or MS PowerPoint

Grading Policy:

Homework 30%
Lab 20%
Midterm 20%
Final 30%

Schedule:

Week	Topics
1	Administrative issues Introduction to server-side web programming Forms
2	JavaScript
3	Servlets
4	JSP Scripting Elements
5	JSP Action Elements
6	Database Access (I) MIDTERM
7	Lab (I): Bean, EL, and JSTL Lab (II): MySQL and JDBC
8	Lab (III): Custom Taglib Database Access (II)
9	Authentication, Authorization, and SSL More about Taglib
10	Guest Lecture on PHP
11	FINAL

Online Resources:

Class home page - http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/csun/teaching/cs320/index.html
Web site of the textbook where all the source code in the book and an early version of the book are availabe - http://www.moreservlets.com/
Java Basics

THE Java tutorial - http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/
Java 2 SE API documentation - http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/overview-smary.html

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

HTML Forms and JavaScript

HTML Forms tutorials (by Google)

HTML Forms References - http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/wilbur/block/form.html
JavaScript tutorials (by Google)

JavaScript References - http://devedge.netscape.com/central/javascript/

Servlet

Servlet 2.4 API - http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/servletapi/overview-summary.html

THE J2EE 1.4 Tutorial - http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/tutorial/doc/
JSP 2.0 Specification, including Expression Language (pdf)

JSP 2.0 API, including API for custom taglibs
JSTL 1.1 Tag Reference - http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/jstl/1.1/docs/tlddocs/index.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/

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.