Syllabus

CS320 Web and Internet Programming

Winter 2014
Computer Science Department
California State University, Los Angeles

Sections:

Section 1: M 1:30pm - 3:10pm (Lecture), W 1:30pm - 4:00pm (Lab) in E&T A309
Section 2: T 1:30pm - 3:10pm (Lecture), R 1:30pm - 4:00pm (Lab) in E&T A309
Section 3: F 8:00am - 9:40am (Lecture), F 9:40am - 12:10pm (Lab) in E&T A220

Instructor:

Chengyu Sun
Email: csun@calstatela.edu
Office: E&T A317
Office Hours: MT 3:30-5pm or by appointment, in E&T A317

Teaching Assistants:

Eric Liao, rcliao01@gmail.com, Office Hours: WR 4:30-6pm in E&T A309
Alice Tian, xtian@calstatela.edu, Office Hours: R 10am-noon 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, custom tag libraries, and the MVC architecture.

Prerequisites:

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

Textbook(s):

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

Software Tools:

Required - Email, Java SE, Eclipse, Tomcat, and MySQL.
Optional (for access online lecture notes) - Adobe Acroread and/or MS PowerPoint

Grading Policy:

Homework and projects 40%, Labs 20%, Midterm 20%, Final 20%

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

A
B
C
D
F

Schedule:

Week	Topics	Chapters
1	Administrative Issues Introduction to Server-side Programming Setting Up a Development Environment Introduction to Java Servlets	1 3
2	Handling HTTP Requests Lab 1. Servlets	19, 4, 5
3	Martin Luther King Day Generating HTTP Responses Cookies and Session Tracking	6, 7 8, 9
4	JSP Scripting Elements and Directives Java Beans Lab 2. Java Beans	10, 11, 12 14, 16
5	Expression Language (EL) JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL) Lab 3. Beans, EL and JSTL
6	MVC Architecture Lab 4. MVC (I)	15
7	Lab 5. MVC (II) MIDTERM
8	SQL and MySQL Lab 6. SQL	18
9	JDBC and JSTL SQL Lab 7. JDBC and JSTL SQL	17
10	Custom Tag Libraries Lab 8. Put Everything Together
11	FINAL

Online Resources:

Class home page - http://sun.calstatela.edu/~cysun/www/teaching/cs320/index.html
Class forum - http://csns.calstatela.edu/department/cs/forum/view?id=31014
Web site of the textbook - http://volume1.coreservlets.com/
J2EE

Java EE 6 API documentation - http://download.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/
JSTL 1.1 Tag Reference - http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17802_01/products/products/jsp/jstl/1.1/docs/tlddocs/index.html
JSP 2.1 Specification (pdf)
Java Servlet 2.4 Specification (pdf)
Java Servlet 3.0 Specification (pdf)

Java Basics

THE Java tutorial - http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/
Java SE API documentation - http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/
Code Conventions for Java Programming Language - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/codeconvtoc-136057.html

Database Access

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

HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS

RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.1 - http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt

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

JavaScript References - http://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript
CSS Tutorial - http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

Linux

Learn to use the command line - http://linuxcommand.org/

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.