Week 10 - Review

We are now at the end of the class. We will do a review of the material covered in the last 10 weeks tonight.

As promised, I have prepared a study guide: [DOC] [PDF] [HTML]

Week 7: Perl and CGI, Part 2

We wrap up our introduction to perl and cgi programming this week. We will look at a few more operations in perl and explore some example cgi scripts.

The following are the slides for last week and this week:

Week 6: Perl and CGI, Part 1
Week 7: Perl and CGI, Part 2

Week 7 Assignment:

• Chapter 12 Review Questions
• Hands-on Exercise 12-2

Week 6: Windows version of Perl

You can download a free version of Perl for Windows from ActiveState.

Week 6: Perl and CGI, Part 1

Week 6 Topics:

• Introduction to Perl
• Introduction to CGI Programming with Perl

Week 6 Assignment:

• Chapter 11 Review Questions
• Hands-on Exercise 11-1, 11-4

For a more detailed Introduction to the Perl language and CGI Programming, I recommend the following resources:

• [web]Beginner's Introduction to Perl by Doug Sheppard,
• [book]Learning Perl , Fourth Edition By Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, Brian D Foy
• [book]Programming Perl , Third Edition By Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant
• [book]CGI Programming with Perl, Second Edition By Scott Guelich, Shishir Gundavaram, Gunther Birznieks

Week 5: Midterm

Tonight we will have an in class midterm. There is no reading assignment and no homework.

Week 4: XML, Part 2

Week 4 Topics:

• Namespaces
• Default vs. Explicit Namespaces
• URI
• Creating and Validating a DTD

Week 4 Assignment:

• Chapter 4 Review Questions
• Hands-on Exercise 4-3, 4-4, 4-5

Week 3: XML, Part I

Week 3 Topics:

• Introduction to XML
• XML Parsers
• Well formed XML and Validation

Week 3 Assignment:

• Chapter 3 Review Questions
• Hands-on Exercise 3-1, 3-2

Smile, it's the Dancing Cat :)

Week 2: SQL

Week 2 Topics:

• Microsoft Access
• SQL

Week 2 Assignment:

• Chapter 2 Review Questions
• Hands-on Exercise 2-1

Week 1 [UPDATE]: new syllabus link

I had a report that some machines on campus apparently don't have a PDF reader installed. I've updated the link to the syllabus to include the Microsoft Word format version.

Syllabus (PDF)
Syllabus (DOC)

Note that there are no changes to the syllabus content, I've simply added another file format for download.

Week 1: Introduction to Programming Logic

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Week 1 Topics:

• Introduction to the class Syllabus (PDF) Syllabus (DOC)
• Discussion of the basics of programming logic
• Introduction to Procedural Programming Methodologies
• Introduction to Object Oriented Programming Methodologies

Week 1 Assignment:

• Chapter 1 Review Questions
• Hands-on Exercises 1-1, 1-2