Tentative Schedule


Week

Class Topic Due Where
0 0. Computer Career and Data Research & Technologies    
  0.1 A computer career    
  0.2 Data research    
  0.3 Data technologies    
1 01/10
01/12		 1. Introduction to CSCI 457    
  1.1 Course outline  
  1.2 System overview    
  1.3 Software used    
2 01/17
01/19		 2. Programming Exercise I    
  2.1 Specifications    
  2.2 Construction steps    
  2.3 Related software and tools    
01/18  Last day to add a course or drop without record
 Last day to add audit or change to/from audit
 Last day to receive a refund on a dropped class
 Drops after the last day to add will appear on a transcript. 		   
01/15
Holiday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Monday) — no classes
   
3 01/22
01/24
01/26		 3. Technologies for E-Commerce Site Construction    
  3.1 Website building technologies    
  3.2 LAMP    
  3.3 E-commerce site construction    
4 01/29
01/31
02/02		 4. Introduction to PHP (HyperText Preprocessor)    
  4.1 PHP basics    
  4.2 PHP syntax    
  4.3 PHP control statements    
5 02/05
02/07
02/09		 5. PHP (Cont.)    
  5.1 PHP forms    
  5.2 PHP cookies    
  5.3 PHP sessions    
6 02/12
02/14
02/16		 6. SQL (Structured Query Language)    
  6.1 Introduction to SQL    
  6.2 Data definition language (DDL)    
  6.3 Data manipulation language (DML) EX I  
7 02/23 7. PHP and MySQL    
  7.1 Connecting PHP to MySQL    
  7.2 PHP MySQL data definition    
  7.3 PHP MySQL data management    
02/19
Holiday, Presidents’ Day (Monday) — no classes
   
02/21
Exam I (for both on-campus and on-line students; 6:30pm – 8:30pm, Wednesday)
   
8 02/26
02/28
03/01		 8. Introduction to Android Programming    
  8.1 Programming Exercise II    
  8.2 Android introduction    
  8.3 An Android hello-world project    
9
03/04
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03/08		     Spring Break — no classes    
10 03/11
03/13
03/15		 10. Android User Interface Processing    
  10.1 Hypertext    
  10.2 Radio buttons    
  10.3 Checkboxes    
11 03/18
03/20
03/22		 11. Android Server Connection    
  11.1 Android URL connection    
  11.2 Java source code    
  11.3 Server-side PHP scripts    
12 03/25
03/27		 12. Programming Exercise III    
  12.1 Location-based services (LBS)    
  12.2 AJAX basics    
  12.3 HTML5 Geolocation    
03/29
Holiday, Good Friday — no classes
   
13 04/03
04/05		 13. AJAX Anatomy and Examples    
  13.1 AJAX introduction    
  13.2 AJAX step by step    
  13.3 AJAX examples    
04/05  Last day to change to or from S/U grading
 Last day to change to or from audit grading
 Last day to drop a full-term course or withdraw from school 		   
04/01
Easter holiday (Monday) — no classes
   
14 04/08
04/12		 14. XML, HTML DOM, and JSON    
  14.1 XML    
  14.2 HTML DOM    
  14.3 JSON    
04/10
Exam II (for both on-campus and on-line students; 6:30pm – 8:30pm, Wednesday)
   
15 04/15
04/17
04/19		 15. JavaScript    
  15.1 JavaScript syntax    
  15.2 JavaScript instructions    
  15.3 JavaScript examples    
16 04/22
04/24
04/26		 16. NPM (Node Package Manager)    
  16.1 Introduction to NPM    
  16.2 jQuery    
  16.3 React    
17 04/29
05/01		 17. Electronic and Mobile Commerce Concepts    
  17.1 Web basics    
  17.2 Electronic commerce    
  17.3 Mobile commerce    
18 05/08
Final exam (for both on-campus and on-line students; 06:30pm – 08:30pm, Wednesday)
   
19 05/14 Grades posted before noon, Tuesday    






      Why do we tell actors to ‘break a leg?’    
      Because every play has a cast.