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Activities   Assignments There are six assignments scheduled. Important Dates   Due Date Comments Demo on Assignment 1 September 24 Counts for 5% Week 3 Assignment 2 October 15 counts for 5% Week 6 Assignment 3 October 29 counts for 5% Week 8 Assignment 4 November 5 counts for 5% Week 9 Assignment 5 November 12 counts for 5% Week 10 Assignment 6 November 22 counts for 5% Week 11 Assignments will count 30% of the overall grade (5% + 5% + 5% + 5% + 5% + 5%)   Lab Exercises There are 7 lab exercises. Important Dates   Week Comments Lab Exercise 1 Week 3 Done in Lab. Lab Exercise 2 Week 4 Done in Lab. Lab Exercise 3 Week 5 Done in Lab. Lab Exercise 4 Week 6 Done in Lab. Lab Exercise 5 Week 7 Done in Lab. Lab Exercise 6 Week 8 Done in Lab. Lab Exercise 7 Week 10 Done in Lab. Lab Exercises are mandatory. They do not count in the final grade, but when not done, will result in negative points for the assignments. Lab exercises are supposed to help you do your assignments.   Presentations Presentations should be done as professional training tutorials. Each presentation, done by a group of 5 students, should take about 20 minutes. The evaluation is based on the Report, the Presentation and Peer evaluation. All slides are due on November 22 and the reports on November 26. There are eight topics. Topic Date Report Slides Group Introduction to PHP and data base connectivity with PHP Nov. 23 Todd James, Theresa Baich, Vinoth Sabanadesan, Leah Denney, Tim Yuan PHP and XML / PHP and web services Nov. 23 muhammad, sonu, walberg, baxter .Net pros and cons Nov. 30 Eric Coulthard, Catherine Lundgren, Kenneth Kaneda, Robert McQuarrie, Blaine Stearns .Net versus J2EE Nov. 23 Peng Li, Jared Zheng, xiao he, felicia cheng, Jonathan Card Developing web applications for PDAs and Cellphones Nov. 30 Alec, Andrew, Karl, James Security with Web services Nov. 25 Terry, Clinton, Eric, Brandon, xiaoling Security vulnerabilities in Web applications Nov. 25 Simon, Brian, Luis, Jeremy, and Ben Virtual Private Networks Nov. 25 Michael Semenchuk, Kerry Nice, David Wallin, Jeff Green, Matthew Riemer The Class Presentation counts for 10% of the overall grade.   Exams There is one term exam scheduled and short test the last day of classes. Important Dates   Exam Date Midterm exam October 21st, 2004 Epilogue test December 7th, 2004 The Midterm will count for 15% of the overall grade, while the epilogue test counts for 15%.   Project There are 10 teams all working on a similar project: implementing a database and decision support system for a retail electronics store. The text for the project description can be found here . Important Dates   Due date Project report December 2, 2004 Project demo December 3, 2004 Select your demo timeslot using this on-line interface. Only the group leaders can select these timeslots. Demo day is Friday December 3 in the lab. Each time slot is maximum 30 minutes and the demos will run from 11:00 to 17:00 with a break between 13:30 and 14:00. The demos are scheduled on Friday December 3rd as follows: 11:00 Group 4: Theresa Baich, Leah Denney, David Wallin, Vinoth Sabanadesan 11:30 Group 7: Jeffrey Green, Matthew Riemer, Kerry Nice, Michael Semenchuky 12:00 Group 5: Muhammad Jamal, Sonu Sahi, Nathan Baxter, Chris Walberg 12:30 Group 6: Todd James, Tim Yuan, Xiaoling Hu 13:00 14:00 Group 2: Terry McAllister, Clinton Nielsen, Brandon Blanck, Eric Chowns 14:30 Group 3: Brian Booth, Jeremy Handcock, Luis Sanchez Perez, Simon Timms 15:00 Group 1: Kenneth Kaneda, Eric Coulthard, Blaine Stearns, Catherine Lundgren 15:30 Group 9: Peng Li, Jared Zheng, Felicia Cheng, Xiao He 16:00 Group 10: Jonathan Card, Robert McQuarrie, Benjamin Chypak 16:30 Group 8: Karl Benner, James Kostek, Andrew Drzymala, Alec Selinger The term project will count 30% of the overall grade. [Home] [Calendar] [On-line Materials] [Activities] [Grading] [Glossary] [U-Chat Tool] [Web Links] [Stud. Resources] Last updated: November 24, 2004 [About this site and list of symbols]