Teaching Staff

Instructor: Tim Hickey
Teaching Assistants: TBA
Community-Engaged Fellow: TBA

Course Requirements

• 40% Homework and Quizzes
• 30% Final Project
• 30% Final Exam

Course Topics

Week 1: The Interactive Web

• W: Overview of the course
• T: Intro to HTML and CSS

Week 2: Static Webpages

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

Week 3: Static Webpages

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

Week 4: 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 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: Website Design and content management systems

• M Set up, Installation, and Security for a CMS
• W Administration of a CMS
• T Theming

Week 11: Website Design: adding interactivity

• M Permissions
• W Modules
• T PHP and Scripting

Week 12: Web-site Design

• M Website usage analysis
• W User studies
• T The Future of CMS