Grading

The grade is based on three aspects:

1. The Monday quizes. These quizes are quick and meant simply to verify that you are keeping up with the lectures and the readings. Remember that the "lectures" are actually videos that you must watch at home. I might give a quiz even if I have not explicitly stated that I will so, always be up to date on the lectures and readings.
2. The in-class exercises. These are more in-depth tests of your ability to apply the knowledge you have acquired.
3. The homeworks. These are longer projects that will challenge your creativity and resourcefulness.

The final grade will be computed using these weights:

Quizes	30%
Exercises	30%
Homeworks	40%

Schedule

Due Date	Lecture	Required Reading	Homework
Jan. 12	Class Introduction.	None	None
Jan. 14		None	None
Jan. 19	No Classes
Jan. 21	Internet and HTTP	Lecture slides wikipedia entry for HTTP list of status codes list of HTTP headers list of Internet media types
Jan. 26	HTML and XHTML	Lecture slides HTML Tutorial XHTML Tutorial
Feb. 2	Cascading Style Sheets	Lecture slides CSS Tutorial
Feb. 4	Invited Talk: We meet in 2A27 Jason Beaird Principles of Beautiful Web Design
Feb. 9			State Farmer's Market Website
Feb. 11	JavaScript Introduction	Lecture slides JavaScript tutorial
Feb. 16	Advanced JavaScript		JavaScript Homework
Feb. 18
Feb. 23	JavaScript in the Browser	DHTML Tutorial
March 2	JavaScript in Browser and jQuery	jQuery slides	Brain Age Homework
March 4
March 9	Spring Break
March 11	Spring Break
March 16			Ajax homework
March 18	SVG and Canvas	Lecture slides	Canvas exercise
March 23			SVG Exercise
March 25	Google Ajax APIs	Google Ajax API homepage Ajax API playground	Functional calculator exercise
March 30
April 1	Gears	Gears lecture slides Gears API
April 6	No classes
April 8
April 13			Gradebook web application
April 15
April 20
April 22
April 27
May 4

About

Instructor: José M. Vidal
   Homepage: http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu
   Office: SWGN 3A51
Class Homepage: http://www.csce242.com
Meeting Time: MW 9:05--9:55am. Swearingen 2A27.
Textbook: Recommended books as well as gotapi.com.

This class will cover the development of web applications. We cover all the basic technologies necessary for building web applications as well as new technologies and trends which will used by web application developers in the next decade.

We define web applications as programs whose execution is divided between the web browser (client) and the web server. The client-side is often developed in Javascript while server-side implementations use many different programming languages. Sample web applications include gmail and google maps.

This is an introductory class and no previous knowledge of web technologies or programming is assumed. This class is a pre-requisite for the more advanced CSCE 590: Web applications class. The topics covered are:

1. HTTP, HTML, XHTML, CSS
2. Javascript: DOM manipulation, XML, JSON, DHTML, AJAX
3. Javascript libraries: scriptaculous, jquery, yui
4. Web application frameworks: Google app engine, Django, Ruby on Rails
5. Cloud computing: map reduce, hadoop, Amazon's EC2 and S3
6. Web services and mashups, REST programming
7. Web applications for the iphone and other mobile devices

No Lectures

Instead of having in-class lectures I have decided to create screencasts of a few of my lectures which you will be responsible for watching. I will also supplement these with other online lectures on by experts on the field. After all, why should you listen to me talk about the birth of the web when you can listen to Tim Berners-Lee instead? There will be in-class quizes to verify that you have seen the lectures and performed the reading for that week. Since we have no lectures, class time will instead be taken up by these quizes and more hands-on exercises, which are also part of your grade, as well as one-on-one help from me. I hope this will provide you with a more personalized experience, and that you will learn faster this way. Because, there is a lot to learn!