Syllabus

CS520 Web Programming

Summer 2008
Computer Science Department
California State University, Los Angeles

Lectures:

Monday and Wednesday 1:30pm - 3:10pm, in E&T A210

Instructor:

Chengyu Sun
Email: csun@calstatela.edu
Office: E&T A317
Office Hours: MW 3:30-5pm and F 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 fundamentals such as development tools, libraries, frameworks and methodologies that are widely used today, and we will also discuss emerging technologies and research issues that may have an impact on the World Wide Web in the future.

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 Acroread 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	File Upload and Email Introduction to Ajax
7	Midterm Presentations
8	Full Text Search Task Scheduling
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://acm.calstatela.edu/forum/viewforum.php?f=64
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/

Web Services

Selected topics

Apache Lucene - http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/index.html
AJAX @ developer.mozilla.org - http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/AJAX

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.