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INLS760 – Web Databases, Spring 2008
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# Day Date Topic(s) Lecture Notes Readings* Assignments (week assigned)
1 Tue Jan 15 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
2 Tue Jan 22 Unix and PHP Unix
lect2
ex1
Read 1, 2. Skim 3 & 4. Read 5. p1 - HTML and CSS
  home.html
  contact.html
  browse.html
3 Tue Jan 29 MySQL refresher
PHP and MySQL
lect3
ex2
Skim 8. Skim/read 9 & 10. Read 11, 12, & 13. p2 - Flat file databases
  records.txt
4 Tue Feb 5 PHP & User Input
Security, Ecommerce
lect4 Read 14 & 15 p3 - DL: Retrieve metadata from a DB
  smallrecords.txt
  bigrecords.txt
5 Tue Feb 12 Session control
User Authentication
lect5 Read 16
Read 22
p4 - DL: Account types and logins
  p4bigrecords.txt
6 Tue Feb 19 In-class Mid-Term Exam
Lecture: DB permissions

ex3
   
7 Tue Feb 26 File upload
Time and dates
Secure transactions
lect6
ex4
Read 18
Skim 19 & 20
Read 17
p5 - DL: File upload
8 Tue March 4 Database search lect7
ex5
  p6 - DL: Metadata and full-text search
    March 11 Spring Break      
9 Tue March 18 Javascript and DOM lect8
ex6
Read WS 20, 21, 22, & 23 p7 - Javascript and DOM
10 Tue March 25 Ajax lect9
ex7
   
11 Tue April 1 XML, XPath, and XSLT lect10
lect10-more
ex8
  p8 - XML, XPath, and XSLT
12 Tue April 8 NO CLASS      
13 Tue April 15 ASP lect11
ex9
  p9 - ASP
14 Tue April 22 Course Summary/Review TBA    
  Tue April 29 Final Exam   6:00pm - 8:30pm Manning 307
* 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