Hypermedia concepts: intellectual work, link, anchor. Hypertext system trends: monolithic hypertext, open hypertext, adaptive hypertext, and spatial hypertext systems.
January 5:
Course overview, goals of early hypertext systems (NLS/Augment, Xanadu). Hypermedia concepts: intellectual work, link, anchor.
January 7:
Guest lecture.
Due: Selection of teams for term project.
January 9:
Hypertext system trends: monolithic hypertext, open hypertext, adaptive hypertext, and spatial hypertext systems.
Read: Chapter 2 (Hypermedia) in Hypermedia and the Web
January 12:
Overview of Web Engineering, process for developing Web applications, elicitation and refinement of requirements for Web Applications.
Due:
Term project proposal
January 14:
Differences between requirements for traditional applications, and Web applications.
Read: Client Needs and the Design Process in Web Projects
January 16:
Introduction to Extensible Markup Language: history, structure, syntax, XML namespaces, DTD language
Read: Chapter 1 (Introducing XML), Chapter 2 (XML Fundamentals), and Chapter 3 (Document Type Definitions (DTDs) in XML in a Nutshell
January 16 (Laboratory):
Lecture on SAX XML Parsing, hands-on execution of an example SAX parsing application in Java
January 19:
No class, Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.
January 21:
XML parsing: DOM parsers
Read: Chapter 17 (Programming Models), Chapter 18 (Document Object Model (DOM)), and Chapter 19 (Simple API for XML (SAX)) in XML in a Nutshell
January 23:
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Read: Chapter 12 (Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)) in XML in a Nutshell
January 23 (Laboratory):
SAX parsing assignment.
Due: Lab assignment #1 (by end of lab)
January 26:
Containment modeling of hypertext system data models. Dexter hypertext reference model.
Due: Project scenarios document
Read: Uniform Comparison of Data Models Using Containment Modeling
Read: Chapter 4 (Locations, Placements, and Interconnections) of From Web to Workplace
January 28:
Exam #1
January 30:
Patterns of representation of documents, compound documents, and links.
Architecture and key standards of the Web (URI, HTML, HTTP).
January 30 (Laboratory):
Lecture on PHP, hands on setup and execution of simple PHP application
Read: Chapter 1 (PHP Crash Course) in PHP and MySQL Web Development
February 2:
Object-orientation in PHP, Form input in PHP
Read: Chapter 6 (Object-Oriented PHP) in PHP and MySQL Web Development
Due: Project requirements document
February 4:
Information design
Read: Chapter 3 (Structure) of The Art and Science of Web Design
February 6:
Information design (cont'd)
Read: Chapter 9 (Development Techniques) of Hypermedia and the Web
February 6 (Laboratory):
PHP form input assignment.
Due: Lab assignment #2
February 9:
Overview of HTTP
Read: Sections 6.2 and 2.6 of Web Protocols and Practice
February 11:
HTTP Caching
Read: Chapter 3, (Web Proxies) of Web Protocols and Practice, pages 59-64 (through Section 3.3)
Due: Project design document
February 13:
Session management in PHP
Read: Chapter 20 (Using Session Control in PHP) of PHP and MySQL Web Development
February 13 (Laboratory):
Session management in PHP assignment
February 16:
No class, President's Day holiday
February 18:
URI, URL, URN
Due: Lab assignment #3
Read: Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax (read to the start of Section 1.6)
February 20:
Browser environment, browser version management
Read: Chapter 5 (Browsers) of The Art and Science of Web Design (through p. 150 only)
February 20 (Laboratory):
Lecture on database connectivity with PHP, hands-on example of connecting to a database with PHP
Read: Chapter 10 (Accessing Your MySQL Database frm the Web with PHP) in PHP and MySQL Web Development
February 23:
XPath
Read: Chapter 9 (XPath) in XML in a Nutshell
February 25:
XSLT, syntax, structure and execution order
Read: Chapter 8 (XSL Transformations) of XML in a Nutshell
Due: Lab assignment #4
February 27:
XSLT, modularity, built-in functions of XSLT/XPath
February 27 (Laboratory):
Hands-on execution of XSLT stylesheets, begin lab assignment on transforming XML documents using XSLT
March 1:
Overview of Web Services architecture, SOAP protocol
Read: Chapter 31 (Connecting to Web Services with XML and SOAP) in PHP and MySQL Web Development
March 3:
SOAP fault handling, SOAP over HTTP
March 5:
Exam #2
Due: Lab assignment #5
March 5 (Laboratory):
Hands-on Web service access using PHP
March 8:
WSDL, SOAP data marshalling
March 10:
WebDAV: Collaborative authoring for the Web
Read: WebDAV: A network protocol for remote collaborative authoring on the Web
Due: Lab assignment #6
March 12:
Due: Final project presentations
March 17:
Due: Final project notebook
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