| Professor Kenneth Larson
Macmillan 109, 364-3305 Cleveland 210, 364-3305 klarson@wells.edu |
Professor Carol Shilepsky
Macmillan 104, 364-3214 cshilepsky@wells.edu |
There will be a midterm on October 15, a project due on December 10 and a final exam on December 19, 7-10 pm. Homework and class participation, the midterm, the project, and the final each contribute 25% towards your grade.
| DATE | ARCHITECTURE | PROGRAMMING |
| 9/3 |
Class: Introduction to and tour of Wells network (hardware/software).
Assignment: Loshin Chapter 1 and Chapter 19, p. 347-65. |
Class: UNIX, Telnet, FTP. Exercise.
Assignment: Niederst recommended: p. 3-4; required: p. 47-63. If time, start p. 67-91. Come to class prepared to explain a UNIX command of your choice. |
| 9/10 | Class: Network models, client/server architecture, network layers.
Assignment: Loshin: Chapters 2 and 3. |
Class: HTML Tags and Attributes.
First page,
Tags,
Attributes
Assignment: Niederst Chapters 5 and 6. Skim Chapters 7 and 8 so that the material can serve as a reference when you need to know more. Be able to interpret Appendices A and B. Add examples of each of the features discussed in class to your index.htm. |
| 9/17 | Class: Network addresses & names; internetwork architecture
Assignment: Loshin: Chapters 4 and 5. |
Class: HTML forms:
adding two numbers,
signing a guestbook,
a simple alert,
CS 131 program submission.
Assignment: Read Chapter 12. Add a guestbook form to your page that uses at least 6 of the input elements on p. 236-241 and emails the results to yourself. Peek Todano and Strang have a good discussion of UNIX pipes and filters on p. 70-74. |
| 9/24 | Class: Some networking issues; overview of TCP/IP applications.
Assignment: Loshin: Chapter 6. |
Class: JavaScript Functions.
factorial,
counting characters.
Assignment:Flannagan: read Ch 1. We will cover the long example later. Review Ch 2-7. This is mostly reference since you know C++. Recommended: pp 27-44, 52-56, 63-77, 87-105. Enhance add.htm to include multiplication in a second function. (ans) Build a page that writes the first 10 integers, their squares and cubes, using functions for square and cube. (ans: 1, 2. ) Build a page that tests countCharacters using a form with boxes for inputting a string and a character, and a button that causes the number of occurrences of the character in the string to be placed in a third box. (ans: 1, 2. ) |
| 10/1 | Class: The data link layer.
Assignment: Loshin: Chapters 7 and 13. |
Class:
JavaScript data and control structures
JavaScript objects,
JavaScript loaded from a file,
Changing the status line,
Adding a clock to the status bar..
Assignment: Flannagan: read Ch. 12, omitting 12.2.5-7, 12.3.5-6, Ch. 13.1-13.4. Modify one of your pages so that a function is loaded from a file. Add seconds to the status bar clock in timeouta.htm. Solution.. Construct a page that uses alert, prompt, and confirm in appropriate (or interesting) ways |
| 10/8 | FALL BREAK | FALL BREAK |
| 10/15 | Midterm Examination. Programming answers:
2,
3,
4.
Assignment: Loshin: Chapters 7 and 13. |
Class:
JavaScript objects and events
events,
hidden fields,
form validation.
Assignment: Read Flanagan 15.1, 15.2, 16.5. Add a city, state, telephone, and zip to the guestbook example with appropriate validations for all fields. *Add hidden fields whose values contain the current month and day (guestans.htm). |
| 10/22 |
Class: The internetworking layer: the Internet Protocol; IP
multicast.
Assignment: Loshin: Chapter 8. |
Class:
Regular expressions and introduction to CGI.
First CGI program.
Assignment: Make sure you understand why the Date methods behave as they do. Finish reqular expressions in class notes, p.4. Reference for regular expressions: Flanagan, 10.1, 10.2, 10.4; see below for for CGI and perl. Enhance the validations in guestans.htm, using regular expressions wherever you can (solution). Write and run a small CGI program. |
| 10/29 |
Class: The internetworking layer: Routing.
Assignment: Loshin: Chapters 9 and 10. |
Class:
Regular expressions.
More CGI, scripts and perl. Examples: name.pl, name1.pl
Scripts with and without aliasing:
hello.htm
hello2.htm.
Environment variables:
env.cgi
env2.cgi
Input from a form:
form1.htm
Assignment: 1) Write and run an interesting small perl prgram to run via telnet. 2) Convert one of your forms to cgi and have the cgi script print the resulting QUERY_STRING. 3) regular expressions practice (solution). Email me your answers to 1) and 3) when done. |
| 11/5 |
Class: The transport layer: UDP & TCP.
Assignment: Loshin: Chapters 11 and 14. Designing the Internet Protocol: Next Generation (IPng) |
Class:
form1.htm,
form2.htm,
form3.htm,
restrict.cgi.
Assignment: Construct responses to the questionaires in guesthid.htm. (solution). Construct a form that acts like a madlib (asking for different parts of speech which are then plugged into an silly paragraph). I have an example on my door, or try madlib.htm. |
| 11/12 | Class: DNS, IPv6.
Assignment: Loshin: Chapters 15 and 16. |
Class:
form4.htm.
pizza.htm.
Assignment: Develop a small survey similar to pizza.htm. *Add the following enhancements to pizza or your program: 1) check for invalid response (e.g. topping=Ham) and 2) allow user to add a new option. Write a program similar to file3.pl that reads a file such as guest.dat or pizza.dat in telnet and displays it on the terminal. *Do not just print the file, use the data for some purpose. |
| 11/19 | Class: Telnet & FTP.
Assignment: Loshin: Chapter 17. |
No programming lecture this class. |
| 11/26 | Class: Email, News, & other messaging.
Assignment: Loshin: Chapters 21 and 24, and 26. |
Class:
form2p.htm,
sales.htm.
Cold Fusion example
selectanimal.cfm.
displayresults.cfm.
Assignment: Enhance the sales example with one of the suggestions or one of your own choosing. Send me an email describing what you have done. |
| 12/3 | Class: Security. Using Secure Email with Digital Certificates in Netscape |
Class: cookies.htm, mail.cgi. |
| 12/10 | Class: Projects | Class: Projects |
Last updated: Monday, December 3, 2001 20:34:00
Updated by: KEL