Syllabus

CS520 Web Programming

Spring 2009
Computer Science Department
California State University, Los Angeles

Lectures:

Wednesday 6:10pm - 10:00pm (Section 1), Friday 9:10am - 1:00pm (Section 2), in E&T A210

Instructor:

Chengyu Sun
Email: csun@calstatela.edu
Office: E&T A317
Office Hours: WR 3-5pm, or by appointment, in E&T A317

Course Description:

This course will pick up where CS320 left off and discuss more advanced topics in web application development. In particular, we will cover development tools, libraries, frameworks and methodologies that help create sophisticated, robust, and maintainable web applications. Emerging technologies and research issues related to the World Wide Web will also be discussed.

Prerequisites:

CS320

Textbook(s):

Spring in Action (2nd Ed), by Craig Walls and Ryan Breidenbach.
Java Persistence with Hibernate, by Christian Bauer and Gavin King (or Hibernate in Action by the same authors).

Software Tools:

Required - Email and web application development tools.
Optional (for access online lecture notes) - Adobe Reader and/or MS PowerPoint

Grading Policy:

Homework and Projects 70%, Midterm Presentation 15%, Final Presentation 15%

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

A
B
C
D
F

Schedule:

Week	Topics
1	Administrative Issues Course Overview Setting Up Development Environment Introduction to Ant Version Control with Subversion
2	Servlet and JSP Review
3	Object-Relational Mapping with Hibernate
4	Spring - Inversion of Control Spring - Aspect-Oriented Programming
5	Spring - MVC Framework
6	Introduction to Ajax File Upload and Email
7	Midterm Presentations
8	Full Text Search RSS and Atom Feeds
9	Declarative Security
10	Recommendation Systems
11	Final Presentations

Online Resources:

Class home page - http://sun.calstatela.edu/~cysun/www/teaching/cs520/index.html
Class forum - http://sun.calstatela.edu/csns/forum/viewForum.html?forumId=32002
J2EE

Spring Reference Manual - http://static.springframework.org/spring/docs/2.0.x/reference/index.html
Hibernate Reference Manual - http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/reference/en/html/
Spring Security Reference Guide - http://static.springframework.org/spring-security/site/reference.html

AJAX

AJAX @ developer.mozilla.org - http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/AJAX
Taconite - http://taconite.sourceforge.net/
Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) - http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/

Full Text Search

Full Text Search in PostgreSQL - http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/textsearch.html
Apache Lucene - http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/index.html

RSS and Atom

RSS 2.0 Specification - http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html
Atom 1.0 Specification - http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4287.txt

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.