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Instructor: Tim Hickey
Office hours:in Volen 138, 12-1 Thu, 2-3 Fri, also by appointment
Welcome to the CS2a/Spr06 Website
We now have 8 Teaching Assistants. They will be holding office hours
mostly in the Faber cluster in the main library. Click on the following links for the
CS2a TA Office hours
and visit them in person or online using GrewpEdit.
Note: the course has ended and the course grades are available
at the following link:
Anonymized Grades for CS2a06
Anonymized Grades for CS2a06
Class Links
- TA hours and locations
- Student website
- GrewpEdit
- JSchemeServer zip file
- last year's website
- Instructions for connecting to the secure wireless network - note though that the secure wireless might not be accessible in all residence halls ...
- class wiki
Homework
- Best HW Solutions1 as selected by the CS2a TAs
- hw1
due Thu 2/02/2006 5pm- HTML - hw2
due Tue 2/28/2006 5pm- HTML/CSS/Servlets - hw3
due Thu 3/16/2006 5pm- Applets - hw4
due Thu 3/23/2006 5pm- MidtermHW: HTML/CSS/Servlets/Applets
Quizzes and Exams
- q1 HTML
- q2 HTML/CSS
- q3 HTML/CSS
- q4 Servlets
- q5 Servlets doing calculations solution for servlet
- q6 Applets
- q7: Tracing CMOS and Logic Circuits
- Final Exam from Autumn 2003 with answers
Readings
- Intro to HTML and CSS
- CSS: inline style
- Contextual Style and External Style Sheets
- Frames and iframes
- Copyright and the web
- Web Accessibility
- Scheme Servlets
- Arithmetic and Servlets
- Lists and Procedural Abstraction
- Persistence File I/O
- Database
- Database Primer
- Graphical User Interfaces in Scheme: I
- Graphical User Interfaces in Scheme: II
- PC Architecture
- Binary and Hexadecimal Numbers
- Assembly Language
- Computer Security
- CMOS and Logic circuits
Reference Materials
- Basic inline CSS: the www.htmlhelp.com reference pages
- CSS 2.1: the w3schools.com CSS tutorial
- Fancy Examples of CSS: http://www.csszengarden.com/
- CSS 2.1: official manual
- HTML4.1: official manual
- XHTML: official manual
Class notes
Week 16: Review
- Monday
- Overview of Final Exam
- Final Exam from Autumn 2003 with answers
- Quizzes from Aut04 (ignore quizzes 8,9 from Fall04 - we didn't cover scheme tracing this semester).
- Final Exam from Autumn 2001
- Wednesday (Last Day of Class)
- Courses to take after CS2a
- CS33b: Internet and Society (core course for Internet Studies Minor - CS2a, 33b, three more electives, one independent study or internship).
- CS11a: Introduction to Programming in Java and C (required course for Cosi minor and major)
- CS25a: Human Computer Interaction - study computer interfaces from CS and Psychological perspective
- Courses to take after CS2a
Week 15: Security
- Monday 3/24/06 - Operating Systems
- Wednesday 3/26/06
Computer Security - Thursday 3/26/06
More on Computer Security
Week 14 - 4/17-4/20 -- SPRING BREAK
Week 13 - 4/10-4/13: Logic Circuits
Week 12 - 4/3-4/6: CMOS Circuits and Gates
Week 11 - 3/27-3/31 - Hardware
Week 10 - 3/20-3/24 - Applets/h3>
Week 9 - 3/13-3/17 - Applets
Week 8
- Monday 3/06/06 - Introduction to Graphical User Interfaces in Scheme.
code examples from class. - Wednesday 3/08/06
Today we look into the mechanisms underlying programs that use the network to communicate with other programs (e.g. chat programs, IM, network games) and we look at a simple chat applet (run it or view it ) using the GroupClient package and three procedures:
; create a connection (define G (make-group-client "tim" "timhw5test" "popper.cs-i.brandeis.edu" 14973)) ; send a message to everyone in the group (G 'send 'key "hi" "This is cool" (readstring name-tf)) ; take actions based on messages sent to the group (G 'add-listener KEY (lambda(key data1 data2 ... datan) ACTIONS....)) - Thursday 3/09/06
Today we discussed hw4 in the first 1/2 of the class. The second half of the class was devoted to q5.
Week 7
- Monday 2/27/06 - Introduction to Graphical User Interfaces in Scheme.
code examples from class.
Graphical User Interfaces in Scheme - Wednesday 3/01/06
code examples from class. - Thursday 3/02/06
The quiz on Thursday will be on servlets (like a mini HW2).
Week 6 - Spring Break
- Monday 2/20/06
- Wednesday 2/22/06
- Thursday 2/23/06
Week 5
- Monday 2/13/06
- Wednesday 2/15/06
- Thursday 2/16/06
Week 4
- Monday 2/6/06 -- Dynamic Webpages
- Wednesday 2/8/06
- Thursday 2/9/06 - Quiz 3 on external CSS style sheets
Week 3
There will be a quiz on Thursday that will require you to write the HTML for a webpage that can contain any of the elements and/or CSS from homework 1. This will be similar to the quizzes from last year's class.
- Monday 1/30/06 -- More CSS
- Wednesday 2/1/06 -- Finishing CSS. Discuss frames, copyright, accessibility
- Thursday 2/2/06 -- Forms and Dynamic webpages
Week 2
There will be a quiz on Thursday 1/26. You'll be asked to write the HTML for a simple webpage containing a list, an image, some text, and a few links. You will not need to use any style.
- Monday 1/23/06 -- We started discussing HTML
- Wednesday 1/25/06 -- We started discussing CSS
- Thursday 1/26/06 -- More HTML/CSS and Quiz 1. Also the first homework has been assigned.
Week 1
The first class will be on Wednesday January 18th. This course does not have a textbook. It will be taught from class notes distributed online during the semester. The syllabus is now available at this link.