Midterm presentations will be group presentations, and each group should consist of three or four students. Each group must choose to present one of the topics listed in the Topics section. Each group member must present at least 5 minutes and no more than 10 minutes. Please let me know what topic you choose by Friday, May 11. Topic selection is first-come-first-serve.

The presentations will be on Tuesday, May 15 and Thursday, May 17  from 4:20pm to 6pm.

I expect each presentation to take the perspective of an application developer and focus on the use of the presented technology. In other words, things like motivation, comparison to other technologies, development process, code examples, tool support, and deployment methods are important, while the internal working of the presented technology is not. Also note that you may want to choose the same topic for your final presentation, and if that is the case, you should focus on the basics of the technology in this presentation, and then discuss the advanced features and functionality in the final presentation.

A good presentation should balance the high-level view of the technology and the programming details, e.g. function APIs. Ideally, after the presentation, the audience should get the big picture of what the technology does, and also understand enough details to be able to start using the technology. And here are some of the things I'll look for in each presenter:

• Understanding of the whole topic, not just the part you present.
• Presentation skills, i.e. the way you stand, talk, answer questions, and interact with the audience.
• Time management.

[Schedule]

Tuesday, May 15

• Dinesh Kumar, Arijeet Chakraborty, Shweta Salakki, Sowmya Rao - jQuery and jQuery UI
• Tri Loi, Xiaoming Liu, Sina Sheikholeslami, Purnima Mummareddy - ASP.NET

Thursday, May 17

• David Gilbert, Raphael Sanchez - WebCL
• Mustafa Al-ammar, Russell Frame, Gavik Ayvazians, Ishag Alexanian - PHP Zend Framework
• Fatehmah Alharbi, Mark Righetti, Nelson Maltez, Thanh Nguyen - JSON
• Kamonsiri Phengphet, Yuze Hao - HTML5

[Topics]

1. Java Web Frameworks

• JSF
• GWT
• Grails
• Spring Roo

2. Non-Java Web Frameworks

• ASP.NET
• PHP Zend Framework
• Ruby on Rails

3. AJAX and JavaScript Libraries

• jQuery and jQuery UI

• Flex
• Silverlight
• HTML5 (including Modernizr and Polyfills)

5. Misc.

• Facebook API
• JSON (including the comparison of some JSON libraries like gson, JSON-lib, and Jackson)