Lecture: MWF, 2:10-3:00 pm, 158 Olson
Lab Hours: W 12:10-1:00 pm, W 3:00-4:00, and Th 11:00-12:00 in 67 Kemper
Hall
Final: Sat 6/4, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Instructor: Prof. Nina Amenta
Office hour: Friday, 3:00-4:00pm, in 67 Kemper Hall
Teaching Assitant: Stewart He
Additional lab hours: Monday, 1:00-2:00pm and Tuesday, 1:00-2:00pm, in 67 Kemper Hall
Prerequisites:
ECS 30 or equivalent programming experience.
Basic programming skills and
familiarity with the UNIX programming environment are required.
All students should sign up for 4 units.
This is a course on Web programming for
lower-division students.
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.
These applications
will include both browser-side and server-side programming.
The focus will be on improving our programming skills,
understanding the Web, and learning to see security holes,
rather than on designing beautiful Web
pages; although we will get some experinece with working towards an
artist's design.
The course will be taught mostly in Javascript, with excusions
into things we need like HTML and CSS, Bootstrap,
Node.js, OAuth and a database package.
We will learn about object-oriented programming and good Javascript
style.
Our server-side programs will use Node.js
and run in the Unix operating system.
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.