This is an abbreviated course syllabus.
Like everything else in this course, it is likely to change.
Weeks:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
break,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14.
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Date |
Topic |
Reading |
Lab |
Work Due |
| Week 1 |
| 01 | Friday, 27 August 2010 | An Introduction to the Course | | | |
| 02 | Monday, 30 August 2010 | An Introduction to HTML | | HTML Basics | |
| 03 | Wednesday, 1 September 2010 | Cascading Style Sheets | | CSS | |
| 04 | Friday, 3 September 2010 | An Introduction to PHP | Getting Started with PHP | PHP Basics | |
| Week 2 |
| 05 | Monday, 6 September 2010 | PHP Control | PHP Reference Manual on Control Structures and Functions | | |
| 06 | Wednesday, 8 September 2010 | Software Design | Zandstra 1 | | Assignment 1: A Style Designer |
| 07 | Friday, 10 September 2010 | Simulation | | Simulation | |
| Week 3 |
| 08 | Monday, 13 September 2010 | PHP Arrays | PHP Reference Manual on Arrays ; Zandstra 2 ; Joseph Bergin's Lists with Current Considered Harmful | PHP Arrays | |
| 09 | Wednesday, 15 September 2010 | PHP Objects (1) | Zandstra 3 | | Assignment 2: ProfQuotes |
| 10 | Friday, 17 September 2010 | PHP Objects (2) | Zandstra 4 & 5 | | |
| Week 4 |
| 11 | Monday, 20 September 2010 | PHP Objects (3) | Zandstra 6 | | |
| 12 | Wednesday, 22 September 2010 | Introduction to Relational Databases | Bowman et al. Intro & 1 | | Assignment 3: Polymorphic Printing |
| 13 | Friday, 24 September 2010 | Class Cancelled | | | |
| Week 5 |
| 14 | Monday, 27 September 2010 | Pause for Breath | | | |
| 15 | Wednesday, 29 September 2010 | Database Design | Bowman et al. 2 | | Assignment 4: Plans Planning |
| 16 | Friday, 1 October 2010 | A Design Exercise | | | |
| Week 6 |
| 17 | Monday, 4 October 2010 | An Introduction to SQL | Bowman et al. 3-5 | | |
| 18 | Wednesday, 6 October 2010 | Using SQL with PHP | | Bridging PHP and MySQL | Assignment 5 |
| 19 | Friday, 8 October 2010 | Using SQL with PHP, Continued | | Bridging PHP and MySQL | |
| Week 7 |
| 20 | Monday, 11 October 2010 | Joins | Bowman et al. 6-7 | Grouping Data in SQL | |
| 21 | Wednesday, 13 October 2010 | Programming Practices: Extreme Programming (1) | Extreme Programming Explained, Section 1: The Problem. | | Assignment 6: Browsing Books |
| 22 | Friday, 15 October 2010 | Programming Practices: Extreme Programming (2) | Extreme Programming Explained, Section 2: The Solution. | | |
| Fall Break! |
| Week 8 |
| 23 | Monday, 25 October 2010 | Programming Practices: Extreme Programming (3) | | | |
| 24 | Wednesday, 27 October 2010 | Project Proposals | | | Assignment 7: Preliminary Project Proposals |
| 25 | Friday, 29 October 2010 | Project Planning | | | |
| Week 9 |
| 26 | Monday, 1 November 2010 | Programming Practices: Design Patterns | Zandstra, Chapters 7-9. | | |
| 27 | Wednesday, 3 November 2010 | JavaScript Basics | Some introductory Tutorial (W3Schools.com has a decent, but ad-filled one). | Javascript basics | |
| 28 | Friday, 5 November 2010 | Project Work Day (1) | | | Mid-Semester Exam |
| Week 10 |
| 29 | Monday, 8 November 2010 | Project Work Day (2) | | | |
| 30 | Wednesday, 10 November 2010 | Discussion of Mid-semester Examination | | | |
| 31 | Friday, 12 November 2010 | The Document Object Model | W3schools DOM Tutorial | The Document Object Model | |
| Week 11 |
| 32 | Monday, 15 November 2010 | Project Work Day (3) | | | |
| 33 | Wednesday, 17 November 2010 | Project Work Day (4) | | | |
| 34 | Friday, 19 November 2010 | GIT | | GIT | |
| Week 12 |
| 35 | Monday, 22 November 2010 | Project Work Day (5) | | | |
| 36 | Wednesday, 24 November 2010 | Project Work Day (6) | | | |
| Week 13 |
| 37 | Monday, 29 November 2010 | JQuery | Getting started with jQuery and How jQuery works | JQuery | |
| 38 | Wednesday, 1 December 2010 | Project Work Day (7) | | | |
| 39 | Friday, 3 December 2010 | Programming Practices: Good PHP | | | |
| Week 14 |
| 40 | Monday, 6 December 2010 | JavaScript 2 | | | |
| 41 | Wednesday, 8 December 2010 | JavaScript 3 | | | |
| 42 | Friday, 10 December 2010 | TBD | | | |
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