Lecture: MWF, 10:00-10:50 am, 107 Cruess
Discussion Section: Th 12:10-1:00 pm, 176 Chemistry
Instructor: Prof. Nina Amenta
Office hour: F 2:10-3:30 93 Hutchinson
Teaching Assitant: Jesse Smith
Office hour: M 11:30-12:30 73 Hutchinson
Office hour: Tu 12:10-1:00 in 2060 Science Lab Building
Prerequisites: An introdutory programming class
or equivalent programming experience. Introductory programming
classes at UC Davis include ECS 10, ECS 30,
Eng 6, ME 5, TCS/ECS 12 and Design 37.
Students who have not completed ECS 40 or equivalent, should sign up
for 4 units. Students who have credit for ECS 40 may sign up for 2 units;
a lot of the material in this class will be review for you.
This is a course on Web programming for beginning
programmers.
We will develop simple Web applications, for instance
to let a user search a database over the Web
or to present dynamic information provided by a constantly
updating online source as a graph or chart.
The focus will be more on improving our programming skills and
understanding the Web,
rather than on designing beautiful Web
pages.
The course will be taught mostly in Javascript, with excusions
into things we need like HTML and CSS, and things that will make our
lives easier, like JQuery.
We will learn about object-oriented programming and good Javascript
style.
Our server-side programs will run in the Unix operating system,
but prior knowledge of Unix is not required.
We will use node.js for server-side programming.
More advanced programmers (completed ECS 40 or equivalent)
should be aware that this
is a lower-division course, so it cannot be used as an elective
towards the CS major.
While this course should be fun, there are also
many other ways for an advanced programmer
to learn Web programming, for instance through the
extension school.
Another possiblity is the free online course on Web development
from Udacity.
Late assignments: We will have a separate link on SmartSite for late assignments, usually open for a few days after the assignment is due. We will take off 20% for late assignments.
Collaboration and cheating: You should discuss the assignments with each other, and you should look at examples of similar programs or Web pages. But you are expected to turn in your own work. This means: you type in every line yourself, without looking at, or cutting and pasting, someone else's. You can look at someone else's program or Web page; but you should understand it, and then go off and write your own, when you're not looking at it.
Email: Class email is a business communication, not a casual text to a friend. Use complete sentences and punctuation. Use a greeting ("Dear Professor,") and a closing, ("Thanks, Karl"). Identify yourself. Address the Professor as Professor Amenta, Ms. Amenta, or just Professor.