LSU/SLIS LIS 7008 (Spring 2010, Section 01): Syllabus
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Session 1 (Jan 19): Computers
Session 2 (Jan 26): Networking, FTP, Simple HTML
Session 3 (Feb 2): Structured Documents (HTML and XML)
Session 4 (Feb 9): Quiz, Multimedia
Session 5 (Feb 16): Mardi Gras; No class
Session 6 (Feb 23): Relational Databases
Session 7 (Mar 2): Programming (Javascript); Mid-term Review
Session 8 (Mar 9): Mid-term Exam; Brief Project Discussion
Session 9 (Mar 16): Web-based Integration (PHP); Computer-mediated Communication
Session 10 (Mar 23): Human-Computer Interaction
Session 11 (Mar 30): Web Characterization
Session 12 (Apr 6): Spring break; No class
Session 13 (Apr 13): Information Retrieval and Search
Session 14 (Apr 20): Policy (Privacy and Security)
Session 15 (Apr 27): System Life Cycle; Final Review
Session 16 (May 4): No Class; Project Due!
Session 17 (May 11): Final Exam
Note: the average life of a link on the Web is about 100 days. If any link to a reading is broken, please report to me ASAP. Thanks.
Readings
- Required
- Shelly et al., Chapter 4: "The Components of the System Unit"
- Shelly et al., Chapter 7: "Storage"
- Recommended
Notes
- Lecture slides with detailed notes (and/or narrated PPT slides) will be posted on Moodle.
- I will also post announcements under the News Forum and under Session 1. Since this is the first week of the semester,
we have many course-related issues to talk about. Please read those announcements and respond when necessary.
If you have any question, please do not hesitate to ask.
- 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.
Homework
- Homework 1 (due before next class session)
- Project (due dates of plan, project, and report: see below)
Useful Resources
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
Notes
- Lecture slides with detailed notes (and/or narrated PPT slides) will be posted on Moodle.
Homework
Useful Resources
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
Notes
- Lecture slides with detailed notes (and/or narrated PPT slides) will be posted on Moodle.
Homework
Useful Resources
Readings
- Shelly et al., Chapter 6: "Output Device"
- Introduction to Streaming Media, Chapter 2 (Media Production)
(also available here in pdf)
- Huddleston's 2005 version has Chapter 13 "Adding Multimedia on Your Page" which is not included in the 2008 version.
I will try to post a copy on Moodle.
Notes
- Lecture slides with detailed notes (and/or narrated PPT slides) will be posted on Moodle.
- Email your quiz to me as an attachment (preferably in RTF, but PDF, MS-Word, and TXT are all acceptable).
Homework
- Homework 4 (due before next class session on 2/23.)
Useful Resources
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:
Notes
Homework
Useful Resources
- MS-Access 2000/2003 Tutorial
Readings
- Shelly et al., Chapter 3: "Application Software"
- Shelly et al., Chapter 13: "Programming"
- Huddleston: Chapter 11 (Adding Forms), Chapter 12 (Javascript)
Notes
- Lecture slides with detailed notes (and/or narrated PPT slides) will be posted on Moodle.
Homework
Useful Resources
Notes
- Mid-term exam will also be posted on Moodle before 7PM today. Due: March 12 Friday 11:59PM.
(grades due March 16). We will not coordinate a specific time for this, so just find a 90-minute time slot to work on it.
You can email me your exam as an attachment (Preferably in RTF, but PDF, MS-Word, and TXT are all acceptable).
- Each project team: please discuss your project ideas on Moodle.
Discussion Due: 7:00PM today. You must have started to work on your project now,
otherwise, you will be late.
Notes
- Lecture slides with detailed notes (and/or narrated PPT slides) will be posted on Moodle.
- Read Javascript Talk.
This may help you apply Javascript into your project design.
Part 1: Web-based Integration
Readings
Useful Resources
Part 2: Computer-mediated Communication, Social Software
Readings (Required)
Useful Resources
Readings (Required)
- Shneiderman, Ben, Designing the User Interface: Strategies for effective human-computer interaction, 3rd ed.
(Addison-Wesley, 2005), Chapter 1
Electronically Reserved Copy (Password distributed on Moodle)
- You may want to refer to Huddleston's text for your project. Read the chapters you have not read.
Notes
- Lecture slides with detailed notes (and/or narrated PPT slides) will be posted on Moodle.
- Please read Javascript Talk if you have not read it.
Useful Resources
Readings (Required)
Notes
- Lecture slides with detailed notes (and/or narrated PPT slides) will be posted on Moodle.
Readings
- Required:
- Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Modern Information Retrieval, Addison Wesley Longman, 1999,
Chapter 1 (Read up through Section 1.4)
- Recommended:
Notes
- Lecture slides with detailed notes (and/or narrated PPT slides) will be posted on Moodle.
Useful Resources
Play with the following search engines. Do not be surprised if they change their names or even go out of business.
Readings
- Required:
- Shelly et al., Chapter 11, "Computer Security, Ethics, and Privacy"
- Recommended:
Notes
- Lecture slides with detailed notes (and/or narrated PPT slides) will be posted on Moodle.
Readings
- Shelly et al., Chapter 12, "Information System Development"
Notes
- Lecture slides with detailed notes (and/or narrated PPT slides) will be posted on Moodle.
Notes
- Project (including report and Website) due: today 7:00PM.
Each project team: please designate one person in your team to email your project report and the URL of your
Website to me (cc to your team members). Please also remind your client to submit the evaluation form.
Notes
- The final exam will be posted on Moodle today. Exam due: 11:59PM May 14 Friday.
- The earlier final exams are available on the course Website,
see LSU/SLIS exams here.
- Required course evaluation will be announced when available.
- All of your project Websites are posted at
http://www.csc.lsu.edu/~wuyj/Teaching/7008/fa10/proj_fa10.html.
We will archive your Website for some period of time before your SLIS Web account is removed, so
you are advised to transfer your content to your client ASAP.
- If you have any question about the final exam, please post on Moodle. Once the final exam is
posted, I cannot answer
questions that are in the final exam, even if you have not opened the exam file or you
paraphrase my questions. I guess that is common sense. Therefore, if you have any
questions about the final exam, please ask before the exam is posted.
Yejun Wu