CIS 342: Networked Application Systems
Spring 2008
Welcome to CIS 342. Your instructor is David Lefkovitz. I can be reached at
· Office 315 Wachman Hall
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Telephone
· e-mail d.lefkovitz@temple.edu
The TA's name is Rui Li
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Course Objective
This course takes a
technology-based approach to the software engineering of networked application
systems design and programming. Normally
a course does not predicate itself upon a particular proprietary system, but
the new Microsoft .
MS-DOS
Windows
Office
VB/Access/SQLServer
OLE/COM/COM+
ASP
.
.
Concrete and Pragmatic Abstract and Conceptual
Software Engineering
Principles Design Methodolgy and Programming Technique
The course thus uses .
Ø How to optimize productivity of the software engineer
Ø How to integrate the best that open technologies have to offer
Ø How to build large scale systems that operate most efficiently on the internet.
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ASP.
The basic prerequisite knowledge of the course is
the use of web based client/server language systems involving HTML and
VBscript or Javascript for client side processing and ASP/VB or JSP/Java for server side processing. The corresponding .
Resources for learning and using these languages are:
(1) The website that you are currently reading, referred to as the WebNotes.
(2) The Reference Book
(5) VB.NET online Class definitions
(6) The Help system embedded in VS.
(7) Intellisensing within VS.
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Course Structure and
Textbook
There are 3 major segments to the course.
1. Learning the
relationship of .
2. Learning the
basics of ASP.
3. Development of a Term Project. This includes design, coding and testing of the project.
The textbook is not required but is a good
Reference book for the course.
Programming
Microsoft ASP.
You can order the book at http://www.bestwebbuys.com/books/ or at http://www.amazon.com . Both of these sites provide a clearinghouse service for all sites with the book, either new or used.
You can download the code for this book at http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/companion/0-7356-2176-4/ . You can also find some other online booksellers there with discounted prices.
The
former textbook was Moving to ASP.
The course is very lab intensive. 70% of the grade will be based upon assigned programming exercises and the term project. A midterm exam comprises 10% and a final exam the remaining 20%.
The
seven lab assignments are each weighted by difficulty. Each assignment will be given a letter grade
based on a curve. These are then
converted to the GPA numeric equivalent from 0 to 4, weighted by the Assignment
Weight shown in the Project
Schedule, summed and divided by 23, which is the
total of the Assignment Weights, and multiplied by 0.7. The exam is graded in the same way, making up
the other 30%, and is added to the numeric score of the projects. The result is a number from 0 to 4, which is
converted back to a letter grade for the course. The formula is:
0.7*(Swigi)/23 + 0.1*m + 0.2*f
where
wi is the weight of the lab assignment i, gi
is the numeric grade of Lab Assignment i, m is the numeric grade of the midterm exam, and f is the numeric grade of the final
exam.
Each
assignment has a deadline, shown in the Due Date
column of the Project Schedule. Submission policy is that an assignment
turned in by the Due Date gets the full letter
grade. It can be turned in up to one
week late but will be downgraded by 1 letter grade. It will not be accepted after the Late Date. Note
that Project 6.4 has no Late Date.
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Development Tools
We will use the following development tools, all of which are available in the lab and which can also be provided to you for installation on your home computer:
·
Visual Studio (VS) .
· Microsoft Enterprise Manager for SQL Server
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The Course Map
Most of the information that you will need for this course can be obtained by a navigation process through the Course Map. This map contains the following sections:
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Syllabus
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Schedules
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Lecture
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Project Assignment
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Accounts
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Reference Material
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Schedules and Accounts
The Lecture Schedule presents a series of Lecture units, textbook readings and links to more detailed lecture material.
The Project Schedule presents the 7 lab assignments and their due dates. These have been described above under Grading.
The Accounts describe 4 account types on 4 server machines.
(1) A class account, c434201nn, is assigned on Walt to each student, where documentation and miscellaneous files can be stored. Also, VB class files and forms can be stored there. A shared directory, called Board provides a means for the Instructor to distribute programs or files to the class.
(2) Each student will have a virtual
web root for Web Applications on
(3) Each student will have a virtual web root for Web Services on Zbach. The name of the web is Spring2008/WSc434201nn. A subweb structure can be developed under the web root for various web service projects.
(4)
The DBMS is SQL Server, which runs on Dwarf. Each student will be assigned a Database,
named sp08_c434201nn
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Reference Material
Finally, the Reference
Material section will give you links to OnLine references and some
hard copy references. The OnLine
references are classified by major topics, such as HTML, ASP.NET VBScript,
VB.NET, Java, JSP, etc.
You should also search the web
for additional, and possibly better, references for languages in the
course. If you find better references
than the ones provided, or links that are no longer available, please send the
urls to the Instructor.
Good Luck and enjoy the course.