LBSC 690: Information Technology (Fall 2008)

LBSC 690: Syllabus (Fall 2008)

#	Date	Type	Topic	Assignment Due	Details
1	9/3	Lecture	Computers and Networks		[show]
1	9/3	Lecture	Computers and Networks Slides Powerpoint (6.05 MB) PDF (503 KB) Readings The Diverse and Exploding Digital Universe Skim both the 2007 and 2008 reports to get a sense of how much data there really is. Shelly et al., Chapter 2: "The Internet and the World Wide Web" Shelly et al., Chapter 4: "The Components of the System Unit" Links WAM accounts How do I get a WAM account? F-Secure SSH (for Windows) How to Use the F-Secure SSH FTP Client Fugu (for Mac OS X) Using Fugu to Transfer Files with SFTP in Mac OS X Before next class, make sure you've installed either F-Secure or Fugu. To make sure that your WAM account is properly set up and activated, try connecting to `terpconnect.umd.edu` using the instructions above.		[Hide]
2	9/10	Lab	FTP, "Hello World!" HTML		[show]
2	9/10	Lab	FTP, "Hello World!" HTML Slides Powerpoint (622 KB) PDF (196 KB) Readings Shelly et al., Chapter 7: "Storage" Shelly et al., Chapter 9: "Communications and Networks" Content Network tools: DNS lookup, reverse DNS lookup, traceroute, etc. Visual traceroute Publishing Web Pages at UMD Introduction to HTML		[Hide]
3	9/17	Lecture	Interacting with Users	Assignment #1	[show]
3	9/17	Lecture	Interacting with Users Slides Powerpoint (15.8 MB) PDF (764 KB) Content What do you think? [RISD] [FIT] Different Versions of my Homepage: version 1 version 2 version 3 version 4 version 5		[Hide]
4	9/24	Lab	Basic HTML		[show]
4	9/24	Lab	Basic HTML Slides Powerpoint (213 KB) PDF (48 KB) Readings Shelly et al., chapter 5, "Input" Shelly et al., chapter 6, "Output" Content real-time HTML editor! HTML Colors [Another resource at Webmonkey] HTML Tutorial at W3Schools Headings, paragraphs, and line breaks Formatting text Links Images Lists Tables Another HTML coding resource List of HTML elements Table tutorial Symbols and Special Characters [reference] Fun with tables!		[Hide]
5	10/1	Lecture	Metadata and XML	Assignment #2	[show]
5	10/1	Lecture	Metadata and XML Slides Powerpoint (611 KB) PDF (238 KB) Content SMIL Demo MathML Demo Mashups (Wikipedia)		[Hide]
6	10/8	Lab	CSS, XML/XSLT		[show]
6	10/8	Lab	CSS, XML/XSLT Readings Introduction to XML (from XML Introduction through XML in Real Life) Scientific American: The Semantic Web Slides Powerpoint (156 KB) PDF (58KB) Content CSS Introduction to CSS CSS Property Index Changing how links look with CSS CSS: Demo Demo 1 Demo 2 Demo 3 Demo 4 Demo 5 (style sheet) CSS: Exercise Starting Point Final Product XML and XSLT: Demo 1 What is XSLT? A poem coded in XML The same poem, transformed using XSLT The XSLT transform The DTD XML and XSLT: Demo 2 A business card coded in XML The same information, transformed using XSLT The XSLT transform XML and XSLT: Demo 3 A CD catalog in XML The same information, transformed using XSLT The XSLT transform XML/XSLT/CSS Challenge The final product Solutions: [The XSLT Transform] [CSS]		[Hide]
7	10/15	Lecture	Structured Information: Databases	Assignment #3	[show]
7	10/15	Lecture	Structured Information: Databases Slides Powerpoint (783 KB) PDF (278 KB) Exercise Solutions Powerpoint (138 KB) PDF (48 KB)		[Hide]
8	10/22	Lab	SQL and Web Applications		[show]
8	10/22	Lab	SQL and Web Applications Readings Shelly et al., Chapter 10, "Database Management" Databases from scratch (all three parts) Slides Powerpoint (162 KB) PDF (58 KB) Another Design Problem Powerpoint (141 KB) PDF (79 KB) Content Issue SQL queries here! Try your hand at SQL queries... SQL tutorial SQLCourse - Interactive Online SQL Training for Beginners Introduction to Databases for the Web HTML Forms and Input		[Hide]
9	10/29	Lecture	Unstructured Information: Search Engines	Assignment #4	[show]
9	10/29	Lecture	Unstructured Information: Search Engines Slides Powerpoint (493 KB) PDF (124 KB)		[Hide]
10	11/5	Lab	Programming, JavaScript		[show]
10	11/5	Lab	Programming, Javascript Readings Shelly et al., Chapter 3, "Application Software" Shelly et al., Chapter 13, "Programming Languages and Program Development" Slides Powerpoint (2.54 MB) PDF (262 KB) Content JavaScript demo: dinner JavaScript demo: dessert JavaScript demo: tasty candy JavaScript demo: social networking site selector JavaScript demo: summation calculator		[Hide]
11	11/12	Lecture	Multimedia	Assignment #5	[show]
9	10/29	Lecture	Multimedia Slides Powerpoint (979 KB) PDF (385 KB) Content Wikipedia: GIF Wikiepedia: JPEG How does JPEG actually work?		[Hide]
12	11/19	Lecture	Building and Deploying Technology		[show]
12	11/19	Lecture	Building and Deploying Technology Slides Powerpoint (3.39 MB) PDF (331 KB)		[Hide]
13	12/3		Final Exam
13	4/28				System Building Issues Lecture slides: [PowerPoint]	[Hide]
14	12/10		Final Project Presentations
14	5/5				Case Study: Understanding PubMed Users for Enhanced Text Retrieval Lecture slides: [PowerPoint]	[Hide]

Important Notes:

Readings should be done prior to class.
If you have a laptop, remember to bring it for the lab sessions.

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LBSC 690: Syllabus (Fall 2008)

Computers and Networks

FTP, "Hello World!" HTML

Interacting with Users

Basic HTML

Metadata and XML

CSS, XML/XSLT

Structured Information: Databases

SQL and Web Applications

Unstructured Information: Search Engines

Programming, Javascript

Multimedia

Building and Deploying Technology