LIS 7008: Information Technologies (Summer 2009, Section 02)

LSU/SLIS LIS 7008 (Summer 2009, Section 02): Syllabus

Session 0 (May 15, Sat): Face-to-Face Meeting
Session 1 (June 8, M): Computers
Session 2 (June 11, Th): Networking, FTP, Simple HTML
Session 3 (June 15, M): Structured Documents (HTML and XML)
Session 4 (June 18, Th): Quiz, Multimedia
Session 5 (June 22, M): Relational Databases
Session 6 (June 25, Th): Programming (Javascript); Mid-term Review
Session 7 (June 29, M): Mid-term Exam; Brief Project Discussion
Session 8 (July 2, Th): Web-based Integration (PHP)
Session 9 (July 6, M): Computer-mediated Communication, Social Software
Session 10 (July 9, Th): Human-Computer Interaction
Session 11 (July 13, M): Web Characterization
Session 12 (July 16, Th): Information Retrieval and Search
Session 13 (July 20, M): Policy (Privacy and Security)
Session 14 (July 23, Th): System Life Cycle; Final Review
Session 15 (July 27, M): No Class. Project Due: July 29.
Session 16 (July 30, Th): Final Exam & Course Evaluation. Exam Due: July 31.

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.

Session 0 (May 16): Face-to-Face Meeting: Most Difficult & Confusing Topics of this Course

Session 1 (June 8): 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

Lecture slides with detailed notes and/or narrated PPT slides will be posted on Moodle.
I have posted slides with notes and narrated PPT slides for Session 1 on Moodle. I have also posted 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 questions, 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 7:00PM of 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
FileZilla conceptual tutorial (neat, but may not apply to our SLIS server.)
FileZilla conceptual tutorial (brief, but may not apply to our SLIS server.)
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 (June 11): 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

Notes

Lecture slides with detailed notes and/or narrated PPT slides will be posted on Moodle.

Homework

Homework 2 (due before 7:00PM of next class session.)

Useful Resources

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

Session 3 (June 15): 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")
- 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]

Notes

Lecture slides with detailed notes and/or narrated PPT slides will be posted on Moodle.

Homework

Homework 3 (due before 7:00PM of next class session.)

Useful Resources

Introduction to XML (go through XML tutorial, from XML Introduction through XML in Real Life)
What is a structured document
Why use structured documents?
Fun with tables!
HTML Tutorial at W3Schools
HTML Cheat Sheet
Basic HTML elements: [Headlines] [Paragraphs] [Line breaks] [Blockquotes] [Links]
Images: [Images] [Image Borders] [Background Images]
Font properties: [Bold and Italic Text] [Teletype] [Font size] [Font color]
Text alignment: [Aligning text] [The Wonderful <DIV> Tag Makes Markup Easier]
Creating HTML Lists: [Definition Lists] [Unordered Lists] [Ordered Lists]
Typefaces designed for the screen
Symbols, Accents, and Funky Characters
The Basic, Basic Table
The Not-So-Basic Table
So, You Want A Table, Huh?
Table Cell Color
More HTML: [Frames] [Mailto] [A mailto with a Subject] [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 (June 18): Quiz, Multimedia

Readings

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

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, or TXT are acceptable). Quiz due: 7:00PM June 22 Monday.

Homework

Homework 4 (due 7:00PM of next class session.)

Useful Resources

Session 5 (June 22): 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

Notes

Lecture slides with detailed notes and/or narrated PPT slides will be posted on Moodle.

Homework

Homework 5 (due before 7:00PM of next class session.)

Useful Resources

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

MS-Access 2000/2003 Tutorial
- My 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

Session 6 (June 25): 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)

Notes

Lecture slides with detailed notes and/or narrated PPT slides will be posted on Moodle.

Homework

Homework 6 (due before 7:00PM of 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 7 (June 29): Mid-term Exam; Brief Project Discussion.

Notes

Read Javascript Talk. This may help you apply Javascript into your project design.
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.
Mid-term exam will be posted on Moodle before 7PM Monday. Due: Thursday night (see blow). We will not coordinate a specific time for this, so just find a 90-minute time slot to work on it.
Email me your exam as an attachment (Preferably in RTF, but PDF, MS-Word, or TXT are acceptable). Exam due: 7PM July 2 Thursday .

Session 8 (July 2): Web-based Integration

Readings

Required
- PHP Manual, Section I, Getting Started
- AskTOG, First Principles of Interaction Design
Recommended

Notes

Lecture slides with detailed notes and/or narrated PPT slides will be posted on Moodle.

Useful Resources

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

Session 9 (July 6): Computer-mediated Communication, Social Software

Readings

Coffman, Steve, We'll Take It from Here: Further Developments We'd Like to See in Virtual Reference Software, Information Technology & Libraries 20(3), 149-153, September 2001.

Notes

Lecture slides with detailed notes and/or narrated PPT slides will be posted on Moodle.

Useful Resources

Session 10 (July 10): Human-Computer Interaction

Readings

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)

Notes

Lecture slides with detailed notes and/or narrated PPT slides will be posted on Moodle.

Useful Resources

Session 11 (July 13): Web Characterization

Readings

Edward T. O'Neill, Brian F. Lavoie and Rick Bennett, Trends in the Evolution of the Public Web, D-Lib Magazine, vol 9, no. 4, April 2003

Notes

Lecture slides with detailed notes and/or narrated PPT slides will be posted on Moodle.

Session 12 (July 16): Information Retrieval and Search

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:
- Power Searching for Anyone (Browse to get an idea of what modern search engines can do)
- Search features Chart
- The Seven Ages of Information Retrieval
- What Do People Want from Information Retrieval?

Notes

Lecture slides with detailed notes and/or narrated PPT slides will be posted on Moodle.

Useful Resources

Play with these search engines:

Session 13 (July 20): Policy (Privacy and Security)

Readings

Required:
- Shelly et al., Chapter 11, "Computer Security, Ethics, and Privacy"
Recommended:
- Surveillance Nation (Technology Review, April 2003) [Part 1] [Part 2]
- The Curse of the Biometric Future (February, 2004)
- Attention, Shoppers: You Can Now Speed Straight Through Checkout Lines! (Wired, July 2004)
- Copyright
  - Fair Use
  - Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (Wikipedia)
  - Lawrence Lessig's Supreme Showdown (Wired, October 2002)
  - In Defense of Copyright (Salon, April 2002)
- Digital Rights Management
- Open Source

Notes

Lecture slides with detailed notes and/or narrated PPT slides will be posted on Moodle.

Session 14 (July 23): System Life Cycle; Final review

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.

Session 15 (July 27): No Class. Project Due: July 29.

Project (including report and Website) due: July 29 Wednesday 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).

Session 16 (July 30): Final Exam and Course Evaluation. Exam Due: July 31.

Notes

The final exam will be posted on Moodle today, due: 7:00PM July 31 Friday.
The earlier final exams are available on the course Website, see http://www.csc.lsu.edu/~wuyj/Teaching/7008/sp09/Exams/index.html and http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~oard/teaching/690/spring08/exams/index.html.
Required course evaluation will be announced when available.