CMPT 241 Web ProgrammingInstructor: Tina Tian

General Information

•Email: tina.tian@manhattan.edu•Office: RLC 203A•Office Hour: Tuesday, Friday 12:30 – 2:00

PM or by appointment •Website: home.manhattan.edu/~tina.tian

About the Course

•Tuesday, Friday 11:00AM–12:15PM

•Textbook (not required):▫Stepp/Miller/Kirst. Web

Programming Step by Step, Second Edition. ISBN 978-1-105-57878-6.

▫webstepbook.com

Grading

•Homework 30%•Projects 45%•Final project 25%

There are no tests!

Homework

•Every week you will be asked to create a (different) web page both describing and using what you learned in the past week.

•Due at the end of the week ▫By Monday midnight

•Graded on a “Did you do it?” basis.•Late work is not accepted.

Projects

•There will be 4 to 5 individual projects. •Projects should be uploaded to your web

space and also submitted to Moodle (lms.manhattan.edu).

•Late work has points deducted. •Not accepted a week after the deadline

Homework Policy

•You may discuss the homework/projects with other students.

•However, you must acknowledge the people you worked with.

•And you must independently write up your own solutions.

•Any written sources used (apart from the text) must also be acknowledged.

Final Project

•Demonstrate the technologies learned this semester

•Group work (3 students)•Assessed in three ways:

▫Project design documentation▫Working project▫Oral presentation and demonstration (if

time permits)

What you will learn

•Both server-side and client-side techniques▫HyperText Markup Language (HTML) for

authoring web pages▫Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for supplying

stylistic information to web pages▫PHP Hypertext Processor for generating

dynamic pages on a web server▫JavaScript for creating interactive web

pages

Tentative Schedule

•Introduction, HTML and CSS 4-5 weeks

•PHP and forms 4 weeks•JavaScript 3

weeks•Final project madness (no class) 2-

3 weeks

Advises

•Take notes •Do NOT check emails, Facebook, etc. •Don’t use printers in class.•Start the homework and projects early

Stretch break

Software

•Web browser▫Google Chrome or Firefox

•Text editor▫Notepad++ (Windows)▫Notepadqq (Linux)▫TextWrangler (Mac)

•Web server▫XAMPP (Apache, PHP, ... )

How to upload files

•Upload your files to turing.manhattan.edu▫Log in▫Upload files under public_html

How to upload files

•SSH Secure File Transfer Client •FileZilla (client) for all platforms•WinSCP•Putty

SSH

FileZilla

Connect to FileZilla

•Host: turing.manhattan.edu•Username: your Jasper ID•Password: your Jasper password•Port: 22

Questions?

•1. Can I use a different editor/IDE for homework and projects?

•Yes!

•2. Does homework have any required specification?

•No. You can do anything as long as you use the stuff we learned in the past week.

“Homework” for today

•Download appropriate software▫Chrome▫Notepad++ or TextWrangler▫SSH or FileZilla