Hare is a compilation of the comments, organized by sections. Note these comments are reported here as provided by the students. Some of these comments were given by more than one student but I tried to avoid the repetitions.

Course Web Site:

• Have a consistent and up-to-date site
• There should be only one calendar. Calendar on TA web page should be removed.
• Changes should be identified with blinking links.
• Make sure the links are up-to-date.
• Improve lab notes

Course material:

• Add coverage of PHP
• Add Flash and actionScript
• Add .Net
• Add ASP and ASP.Net
• Too many topics covered. Reduce the topics.
• Slides are bullet form and diagrams without context. By the time we revise for the exam we forgot the content and explanation. Slides should have more details.
• Pick some topics to focus on and forget the others.
• Needs better organization.
• Focus on Web-application security. Class presentation is not enough
• Emphasize more on web services: we need better understanding of WSDL, SOAP, RPC, etc.
• Split the course into two courses or a year course.
• Too much knowledge in this course. It is hard to study for the tests.
• Reduce the topics and focus on XML and XSLT
• Remove CORBA
• More emphasis on new technologies and less on old technologies.
• Remove the HTML part and put it as a lab exercise
• Give more detail on security for web services
• Avoid material covered in 391.
• Fix the typos in your slides
• There is too much stuff to go over in one semester; separate into 2 courses.
• The course should be focused on one technology or another.
• Very time consuming especially for people who also work.
• The course has too wide of a scope. It needs more focus.
• In the beginning of each class, ask questions to students about previous lecture to make sure things are understood.

Lab:

• Add PHP in lab
• Take out labs and class presentations.
• Labs shouldn't be mandatory
• A lab on XSLT would be helpful
• Give an exercise in lab about XML Schema
• Give more detail on security for web services including a lab
• Upgrade the lab software. Netscape 4 is too old and 7 is free.
• TAs need to know the material.
• It was difficult to attempt the labs without the TA assistance.

Project

• Help in creating groups early. Do not assume everyone in class knows everyone else
• Give peer evaluation of the project. Marks should be distributed toward the members who did the work.
• Project infrastructure (hardware and WSDL) should be specified early and never changed.
• Provide the specification of the project the first day of class and do not change it anymore.
• When specs and decisions become final in the newsgroup, update the TA page to eliminate confusion and inconsistency (in particular WSDL issues)
• Have the same number of project groups as we have presentation groups. It is hard to find group members.
• Do not assume the use of Java for the project. Support for more currently used languages
• Constant revision of project is a pain.
• More focus on web services in the project and less on local functionality
• Allow project groups to form earlier would help as we could have started on trivial stuff sooner.
• Have a test-site we can use for testing our project.

Assignments:

• Make sure the assignments are feasible before assigning them.
• Make sure the assignments are ready before they are released.
• We need less homework
• Assignments should be evenly distributed during the semester. The last month was too busy.
• Level of description and detail for assignments is not clear enough to figure out what we have to do without questions.
• Handing in due dates would be helpful.
• Add more assignments for we learn a lot by practicing, but remove the tests.
• Add an assignment on web mining (especially content)
• Shift workload to the beginning of the semester
• Too much workload. Simultaneous assignment/project/presentation is too much.
• Replace assignments with project checkpoints
• Add an assignment on XSLT.
• Give enough time for students to complete their assignments.

Textbook:

• Need a better book with more depth
• Assign readings from text. I need to know what is expected from me to read.

Exams:

• Exams should be open books.
• No coding in exams please.
• Some subject coverage is minimal but it is not minimal in test.