LSU/SLIS LIS 7008 (Fall 2009, Section 01): Syllabus

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Session 1 (Aug 27): Computers

Readings

• Required
  • Shelly et al., Chapter 4: "The Components of the System Unit"
  • Shelly et al., Chapter 7: "Storage"
• Recommended
  • How much information?

Notes

• An important reminder - I will use your LSU email address to contact you. I cannot use your non-LSU email addresses because they cannot be listed on Moodle. If you do not read emails from your LSU email account very often, it is your responsibility to forward emails from your LSU account to your non-LSU account.

Slides

[Powerpoint] [RTF]

Homework

• Homework 1 (due before next class session)
• Project (due dates of plan, report, Website: see below)

Useful Resources

• FileZilla FTP Client, also available from your LSU PAWS account (look under "Tigerware").
• A Quick Tutorial on Using FileZilla to Transfer Files onto SLIS Web Server
  More FileZilla Tutorials:
• FileZilla tutorial on Youtube (you can skip the first part of the video, which is about installation of FileZilla.)
• FileZilla conceptual tutorial (neat!)
• FileZilla conceptual tutorial (brief!)
• FileZilla graphic turorial (the middle part of the demonstration is customized to the FTP server of tutor.velnet.org.uk, which does not apply to our SLIS server slis.lsu.edu, but it allows you to see how drag-and-drop is used to move files from a local machine to a remote machine.)

Session 2 (Sept 3): Networking, FTP, Simple HTML

Readings

• Required
  • Shelly et al., Chapter 2: "The Internet and the World Wide Web"
  • Shelly et al., Chapter 9: "Communications and Networks"
  • Huddleston: Chapter 1 (HTML and XHTML), Chapter 2 (HMTL Basics), Chapter 19 (Publishing Your Website) [Note: skim Chapter 1 and Chapter 19, but read Chapter 2.]
• Recommended
  • Introduction to HTML

Slides

• [Powerpoint] [RTF]

Homework

• Homework 2 (due before next class session)

Useful Resources

• Network tools: DNS lookup, reverse DNS lookup, traceroute, etc.
• HTML Colors [Another resource at Webmonkey]

Session 3 (Sept 10): Structured Documents (HTML and XML)

Readings

• Required
  • Huddleston: Chapter 3 (Creating Hyperlinks), Chapter 4 (Images), Chapter 5 (Tables), Chapter 6 (Lists), Chapter 9 (Other CSS Selectors) [Note: at least scan through these chapters before class; you will refer to them afterwards for your homework.]
  • Dave Raggett, Getting Started with HTML (read for detail, and then skim "Advanced HTML" and "Adding a Touch of Style" at the top of the page.)
  • Eric Ray, Learning XML (Chapter 1, password distributed on Moodle).
• Recommended
• What do you think? [Publicis] [The Zimmerman Agency] [Text 100 Public Relations]
• What do you think? [RISD] [MIT Media Lab] [Stanford's Media X] [FIT]

Slides

• [Powerpoint] [RTF]

Homework

• Homework 3 (due before next class session)

Useful Resources

• Introduction to XML (go through XML tutorial, from XML Introduction through XML in Real Life by browsing the taxonomy on the left side of the page.)
• What is a structured document?
• Why use structured documents?
• Fun with tables!
• HTML Basic, Advanced, and Examples
• HTML Cheat Sheet
• Text alignment: [The Wonderful <DIV> Tag Makes Markup Easier]
• Typefaces designed for the screen
• So, You Want A Table, Huh? [Image Maps]
• CSS
  • Introduction to CSS
  • CSS Property Index
    
  • Changing how links look with CSS
• CSS: Exercise (Borrowed from Jimmy Lin)
  • CSS Demo
  • Starting Point
  • Final Product
• XML and XSLT: Demo

  • XML Poem Example (Borrowed from Dr. Doug Oard)

  • MathML demo

  • More XML examples

• XML and XSLT
  • Introduction to XML
  • A Technical Introduction to XML
  • XML in 10 points
  • Understanding XSLT
  • What is XSLT?

Session 4 (Sept 17): Quiz, Multimedia

Readings

• Shelly et al., Chapter 6: "Output Device"
• Introduction to Streaming Media, Chapter 2 (Media Production) (also available here in pdf)

Notes

Quiz due in class.

Slides

• [Powerpoint] [RTF]

Homework

• Homework 4 (due before next class session)

Useful Resources

• SMIL demo
• Adding Sounds
• Embedding QuickTime
• How do analog to digital convertors work?
• Web Page Design: GIF vs. JPEG
• When and how to use internet image formats

Session 5 (Sept 24): Relational Databases

Readings

• Required:
  • Shelly et al., Chapter 10: "Database Management"
  • Brooks, Frederick P., "The Mythical Man Month", Chapter 2 (online book available from LSU Library Catalog or from here)
• Recommended:
  • Databases from scratch (all three parts)
  • The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value

Slides & Etc.

• Lecture: [Powerpoint] [RTF]
• Sample Database: [ride.mdb in Access 2000] [mydb2007.accdb]

Homework

• Homework 5 (due before next class session)

Useful Resources

• MS-Access 2007 Tutorial
  • Access 2007 Tutorial (.Doc) [mirror]
  • Access 2007 In Pictures (I used this one before)
  • Introduction to Access 2007

• MS-Access 2000/2003 Tutorial
  • Access 2000 Tutorial by Florida Gulf Coast University
  • Access 2000 Tutorial by Bay School Public Schools
  • Access 2000 Tutorial by jfuller EDUCATIONAL
  • Access 2000 Tutorial by Penn State University

• SQL Tutorial
  • Issue SQL queries here!
  • Try your hand at SQL queries...
  • SQL tutorial
  • SQLCourse - Interactive Online SQL Training for Beginners

Session 6   (Oct   1): Fall Holiday, No Class

Session 7 (Oct   8): Programming; Mid-term Review

Readings

• Shelly et al., Chapter 3: "Application Software"
• Shelly et al., Chapter 13: "Programming"
• Huddleston: Chapter 11 (Adding Forms), Chapter 12 (Javascript)

Slides

• [Powerpoint] [RTF]

Homework

• Homework 6 (due before next class session)

Useful Resources

• Javascript
  • JavaScript demo: dinner
  • JavaScript demo: dessert
  • JavaScript demo: tasty candy
  • JavaScript demo: Search tool selector: shorthand version or full version (with semicolons and complete braces)
  • JavaScript demo: Hello World
  • JavaScript demo: Summation calculator
  • JavaScript form values
  • JavaScript events
  • The JavaScript Building Blocks: Data Types, Literals, and Variables
  • WebMonkey: JavaScript tutorial
  • Another JavaScript tutorial
  • JavaScript Kit
  • How to Steal JavaScript
  • The Classic Image Rollover
  • A Wizard for Popup Windows

Session 8 (Oct 15): Web-based Integration (PHP); Computer-mediated Communication; Brief Project Discussion; Take-home Mid-term Exam

Notes

• Mid-term exam will also be posted on Moodle. You can drop your hard copy into my mailbox at SLIS Administration Office or email me your exam as an attachment (Preferably in RTF, but PDF, MS-Word, and TXT are all acceptable). Exam due: 9:00AM Oct 18 Sunday (because grades due 9:00AM Tuesday).
• Read Javascript Talk. This may help you apply Javascript into your project design.

Slides

• [Powerpoint] [RTF]

Part 1: Web-based Integration

Readings

• Required
  • PHP Manual, Section I, Getting Started
  • AskTOG, First Principles of Interaction Design
• Recommended
  • PHP + MySQL Quick Tutorial for Advanced LIS7008 Students
  • Programming via PHP (online book)
  • Tim O'Reilly's talk at NPR on Web 2.0

Useful Resources

• PHP Tutorials
  • PHP Sample Codes
  • Simple PHP & MySQL Tutorials
• Web forms
  • Introduction to Databases for the Web
  • HTML Forms and Input

Part 2: Computer-mediated Communication, Social Software

Readings