Internet Systems Design:
Technologies for Modern Information Systems

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Some people think that the Internet is a matter of life or death. They are wrong.
It's much more important than that.
(apologies to) Bill Shankly, Liverpool FC 

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Ben Franklin

Summer 2005

6 Week Summer Session. First class: 06/22/2005     Last Class: 07/27/2005

Time & Location: 3:00P - 6:25P MW 3231 SC

Course Instructor

Professor Peter O’Grady

Teaching Assistant

TBA
Office Hours: (in the ALF Lab) 5 - 6pm Sun, Tues and Thursday or by appointment (via e-mail)

This course explores the technologies that form the core of Internet-based modern information systems. Design issues associated with designing a modern information system will be discussed. Students will become familiar with the operation of the Internet, server issues, XML, Internet systems design, server-side programming, Active Server Pages, database integration, client-side programming, the Java programming language, ActiveX components, and Visual Basic scripting.

Students graduating from this class will have an understanding of the core technologies of Internet-based modern information systems.

Note:

  1. Some of the files are in Word 97 or PowerPoint 97 format. You may need to obtain viewers from Microsoft. Others are in Acrobat (pdf) format, with a free viewer obtainable from Adobe.
  2. Note that some of the pages are password protected - passwords will be given to registered students.

Prerequisites

A computer class (such as Engineering II or similar).

Course text

"The Internet, Intranets and Extranets for Operations and Manufacturing", Peter O'Grady, course notes, freely available on this web site.

Also you may want (for the work on Object Oriented programming):
    "Java How to Program" by Paul J. Deitel, Harvey M. Deitel. Publisher: Prentice Hall; ISBN: 0130125075; 3rd Bk&cdr edition (August 18, 1999)

Grading

You might want to check here.

Web Class

It is possible to take this class as a web based class -- permission of instructor is required. Please see here

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