days	room	topic(s)	readings/resources
unit I: software development
thu-jan-28	130 NE	course introduction (lecture)	course information sheet course pre-survey (please complete and return to prof sklar) lecture notes O'Reilly Publishing
tue-feb-2	5301 N	foundations of software engineering	No Silver Bullet--Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering, by Frederick P. Brooks. Originally published in 1986 in Information Processing 86. Reprinted in Computer, 20, 4 (April 1987) 10-19. Also reprinted in The Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition (1995). (downloaded from http://osprey.unisa.ac.za/download_2003/INF425-N/a2.pdf) Professor Frederick P. Brooks Brooks lecture
thu-feb-4	5301 N	software processes	lecture notes lab
tue-feb-9	5301 N	software patterns	lecture notes Chapter 1, Agile Practices, by Robert C. Martin What is Extreme Programming? by Ron Jeffries (visit xp website here) excerpts from The Design Patterns Java Companion, by James W. Cooper (full book is available here)
thu-feb-11	5301 N	software testing	lecture notes project for unit I (due Feb 22)
tue-feb-16	5301 N	software development lab	system requirements student presentations: sportsMonkey (pdf) bigNightOut (pdf) betterPortal (pptx) (ppsx)
thu-feb-18		no class (cuny monday)
unit II: database systems
tue-feb-23	5301 N	information/database models	lecture notes labII.1 Google Image Labeler
thu-feb-25	5301 N	mysql lab	labII.2
tue-mar-2	5301 N	data definition and manipulation in mysql	lecture notes
thu-mar-4	5301 N	database lab	lecture notes
tue-mar-9	5301 N	scripting language access (PHP)	lecture notes examples from class: hello.php (source) hello2.php (source) hello3.php (source) colors.php (source) arrays.php (source) myclass.php (myclass source, userclass source) lunch.html (lunch.php source) also discussed in class: GNU software and directory of GUN projects the Emacs editor (typically comes standard on unix systems) my quick and dirty emacs help file (with pointers to the full manual) HTML and CSS references
thu-mar-11	5301 N	PHP lab	lab II.3
tue-mar-16	5301 N	PHP and MySQL lab	lab II.4
thu-mar-18	5301 N	MIDTERM EXAM
unit III: tools and technologies
tue-mar-23	5301 N	phpmyadmin	project for unit II (due Apr 9) lab III.1 phpMyAdmin
thu-mar-25	5301 N	content management systems	lab III.2 CMS Made Simple WordPress Mambo Zen Cart
tue-mar-30		no class (spring break)
thu-apr-1		no class (spring break)
tue-apr-6		no class (spring break)
thu-apr-8	5301 N	midterm debriefing	project for unit III (due Apr 30)
tue-apr-13	5301 N	case studies	facebook If you missed class, get notes from someone who was there. We discussed how to evaluate a web site for the case studies you need to do as part of project III. I will NOT post notes on this.
thu-apr-15	5301 N	project III lab	how to hack wordpress... (lab III.3---instructions from the board during class will be posted here)
tue-apr-20	5301 N	interoperability: XML	xml sample from class (download linked file to see the XML-tagged content) XML tutorial (w3schools) DTD tutorial (w3schools) Tim Berners-Lee's TED talk
thu-apr-22	5301 N	XML lab	lab III.4
tue-apr-27	5301 N	interoperability: AJAX	examples from class: (download link to see code) ajax1.html ajax2.html ajax3.html ajax4.html ajax5.html w3schools.com tutorials: AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And XML) HTML (HyperText Markup Language) XHTML (eXtensible HyperText Markup Language) CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) Javascript HTML DOM (Document Object Model)
thu-apr-29	5301 N	AJAX lab	lab III.5
unit IV: intelligent systems
tue-may-4	5301 N	intelligent systems	lecture notes
thu-may-6	5301 N	intelligent systems lab	lab IV.1 project for unit IV (due May 18 and May 23)
tue-may-11	5301 N	final project lab
thu-may-13	5301 N	final project lab
tue-may-18	5301 N	final project demonstrations
tue-may-25	room tba	FINAL EXAM	10.30am-12.30pm