Instructor:

Dale R. "Zai" Fox, Ph.D.

Office:

Office Hours:

2:00 - 3:30 PM  Tuesday and Thursday
5:30 - 6:20 PM  Tuesday
or by appointment

Phone:

E-mail:

zai.fox@esaighu.net

Text:

Childs, Lomax and Petrusha, VBScript in a Nutshell, O'Reilly.

Weissinger, ASP in a Nutshell, O'Reilly.

Evaluation:

Homework and one project. 

The course will also be based on the assumption that you have some background in HTML or development of relatively static "information" pages for the WWW.  If you can develop your own personal web in HTML or FrontPage or some similar package you should have more than enough experience.  Though you are likely to learn much more about the meaning of HTML tags than you currently know.   If you don't currently have these capabilities it should be  relatively easy to compensate.  HTML will be the basis of our user interface development.

For the first part of the course we will be using  Microsoft Access for our databases on the server.  Then we will change to SQL for the latter part of the course.  It is unclear whether this will be ASPs with SQL Server, PHP with MySQL or JSP with MySQL.  We will talk about this during the course.

The first five weeks will involve some general background on ASPs that translates pretty well to JSPs and PHP.  Then we will start developing a website that can be used to register users and allow them to interact and update their information.  We will also develop the code for administering this site.

Ultimately, the entire course could be developed from Notepad.  But you want some sort of textpad, notepad program to help you develop your text files.  I will use HomeSite.

You will need some way to upload your files to the web.  Some sort of FTP program is best.  I use GlobalScape's CuteFTP.  It cost about $40.   There are many others, many of which are free.  Most students end up downloading a shareware copy of WS_FTP.