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INLS760 – Web Databases, Spring 2010
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# Date Topic(s) Lecture Notes Readings* Assigned Due  
1 Jan 12 Introduction
Review HTTP, HTML, CGI
lect1
Unix
ex1
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 Jan 19 Unix and PHP lect2
ex2
Read 1, 2.
Skim 3 & 4.
Read 5.
p1 - HTML and CSS
  home.html
  contact.html
  browse.html
p0
3 Jan 26 MySQL refresher
PHP and MySQL
lect3 Skim 8.
Skim/read 9 & 10.
Read 11, 12, & 13.
p2 - Flat file databases
  records.txt
p1
4 Feb 2 PHP & User Input
Security, Ecommerce
lect4 Read 14 & 15 p3 - DL: Retrieve metadata from a DB
  smallrecords.txt
  bigrecords.txt
p2
5 Feb 9 Session control
User Authentication
lect5 Read 16
Read 22
p4 - DL: Account types and logins
  p4bigrecords.txt
p3
6 Feb 16 In-class Mid-Term Exam
Lecture: More User Input and Authentication

lect5b
ex3
     
7 Feb 23 File upload
Time and dates
Secure transactions
lect6
ex4
Read 18
Skim 19 & 20
Read 17
p5 - DL: File upload p4
8 March 2 Database search lect7   p6 - DL: Metadata and full-text search p5
  March 9 Spring Break        
9 March 16 ASP lect8
ex5
  p7 - ASP p6
10 March 23 Javascript and DOM lect9
ex6
Read WS 20, 21,
22, & 23
  p7
11 March 30 Ajax lect10   p8 - Ajax  
12 April 6 Ruby on Rails (part 1) Ruby on Rails notes   p9 - Ruby on Rails p8
13 April 13 NoSQL NoSQL notes      
14 April 20 Ruby on Rails (part 2)        
15 April 27 In-class FINAL EXAM
       
  before 5pm, May 4 P9 Ruby on Rails Demos       p9
* 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
Ref = reference material
Skim = skim this material