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INLS760 – Web Databases, Spring 2007
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# Day Date Topic(s) Lecture Notes Readings* Assignments (week assigned)
0     Before the first class     Getting and Installing Virtual PC and Fedora Core 6
1 Tue Jan 16 Introduction, course overview.
Review HTTP, HTML, CGI
lect1 Read WS 1, 2, & 9.
Ref: WS 3-8, 14-19.
Read Demystifying the Browser
Read Learning HTTP up to "Server Response Codes"
p0 - Programming
  p0-data.txt
p1 - HTML and CSS
  home.html
  contact.html
  browse.html
2 Tue Jan 23 Unix and PHP Unix
lect2
Read 1, 2. Skim 3 & 4. Read 5. p2 - Flat file databases
  records.txt
3 Tue Jan 30 MySQL refresher
PHP and MySQL
lect3 Skim 8. Skim/read 9 & 10. Read 11, 12, & 13. p3 - DL: Retrieve metadata from a DB
  smallrecords.txt
  bigrecords.txt
4 Tue Feb 6 Ecommerce and Security
Authentication
Session control
lect4 Read 14 & 15
Read 16
Read 22
p4 - DL: Account types and logins
  p4bigrecords.txt
  dlusers.txt
5 Tue Feb 13 In-class Mid-Term Exam
Lecture: Authentication + Session control
lect5    
6 Tue Feb 20 File upload
Email, time and dates
Secure transactions
lect6 Read 18
Skim 19 & 20
Read 17
p5 - DL: File upload
  dlusers.txt
7 Tue Feb 27 Large projects & debugging
Case study: Bookmark manager
Case study:Shopping Cart
lect7 Read 24 & 25
Read 26
Read 27
 
8 Tue March 6 Database search lect8   p6 - DL: Metadata and full-text search
    March 13 Spring Break      
9 Tue March 20 Database search
Case study: Content Management Systems
Digital Libraries / Repositories
lect9
Lucene
lect10
Read 28  
10 Tue March 27 Javascript and DOM lect11 Read WS 20, 21, 22, & 23 p7 - Javascript and DOM
11 Tue April 3 XML, XPath, and XSLT lect12 Read 33
Read WS 11
 
12 Tue April 10 XML, XPath, and XSLT
ASP
lect13
lect14
  p8 - XML, XPath, and XSLT
13 Tue April 17 ASP lect15   p9 - ASP
14 Tue April 24 Course Summary/Review TBA    
  Tues May 1 Final Exam   6:30pm - 9:30pm Murphey 111
* All readings are in the PHP and MySQL book unless noted otherwise.
"WS" indicates a reading in the Web Standards book.
Read = read this material, you may be tested on it
Ref = reference material
Skim = skim this material