Teaching Staff

Course Requirements

• 10% Weekly Quizzes
• 10% Community-Engaged Learning Project
• 50% Weekly Homework
• 30% Final Exam

Course Topics

Week 1: The Interactive Web

• W: Overview of the course
• T: Wikis, blogs, and social networks

Week 2: Languages of the Web

• M Architecture of the Internet
• W HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Applets, Servlet, Facebook Applications
• T Security, Privacy, and Intellectual Monopoly

Week 3: Static Webpages

• M HTML and CSS - Fundamental Concepts
• W Lists, Tables, and embedded objects
• T Abstraction: giving names to style

Week 4: Static Webpages

• M The Box Model: Positioning with CSS
• W Working with Templates
• T Cascading Style Sheets

Week 5: Dynamic Webpages

• M Servlets
• W Interactive Webpages
• T Abstraction: naming templates

Week 6: Scheme Programming: I

• M Expressions
• W Abstraction: defining your own operations
• T Conditional Execution: if, cond, case

Week 7: Scheme Programming: II

• M Lists
• W Iteration and Recursion
• T The Model(HTML), View(CSS), Cntroller(Scheme) Paradigm

Week 8: Interactive Websites I

• M Sending Email
• W Interacting with a Database
• T SQL: the language of databsses

Week 9: Interactive Websites II

• M Registration: an extended example
• W Social Networking: profiles
• T IT Entrepreneurship

Week 10: Client-side interaction

• M Javascript
• W Applets
• T Ajax

Week 11: PC Architecture: I

• M CPU, Bus, Memory, Peripherals
• W Von Neumann model and Machine Language
• T Operating Systems and Resource Management

Week 12: PC Architecture: II

• M CMOS Transistors and Logic Gates
• W Combining Gates into Circuits
• T Combining Circuits into Memory and Processors