CSE691 - Comparative Platforms

Revised: 5/24/2011
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Each Class starts with a Lecture and Ends with an in-class Assignment

Resources:

   Lectures Code Syllabus Labs
   File Download ScreenShot Project Upload Instructions
   FixingSQLLoginFailures.doc
   Student Presentations

Required Projects and Labs

Course Scope:

Comparative Platforms examines web programming models on both client and server sides for three different platforms.
  1. A fairly simple web infrastructure based on LAMP: Linux (OS), Apache (WebServer), MySQL (database), and PHP (server-side programming)
  2. An event-based programming model provided by ASP.Net - Active Server Pages, with Windows (OS), IIS (Webserver), SQLserver (database), and C# (server-side programming)
  3. An enterprise oriented infrastrature provided by Java EE5 - Java Server Pages running on Linux (OS) with open source web server and database provided as part of the enterprise suite and Java (server-side programming). This is the most complex of the three platforms.
A Web client is usually a browser, but may also be a custom application. Servers usually serve out web pages, but may also host web services, using a Remote Procedure Call (RPC) model. We will examine all these models and build code to implement them.

Several laboratory exercises and presentations are required, as well as a large final project. In this project you will create a web site that serves web pages and provides web services. Your clients will be both browsers and custom applications.

Required Texts and Notes:

  1. Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL, 2nd Edition, Williams and Lane, O'Reilly, 2004, ISBN 0-596-00543-1
  2. Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in C# 2005, MacDonald and Szpuszta, Apress, 2005, ISBN 1-59059-496-7
  3. TBD
  4. References available in Sci-Tech Library:

    • Bulletproof Web Design, Dan Cederholm, New Riders, 2006, ISBN 0-321-34693-9
    • The Zen of CSS, Shea and Holzschlag, New Riders, 2005, ISBN 0-321-30347-4
    • DOM Scripting, Jeremy Keith, Apress, 2005, ISBN 1-59059-533-5
  5. Class Notes, available on www.ecs.syr.edu/faculty/fawcett/handouts/cse686
  6. Web References

Supplementary Texts and Notes:

  1. Programming Microsoft .Net, Jeff Prosise, Microsoft Press, 2002, ISBN 0-7356-1376-1

Prerequisites:

Students are expected to have a working knowledge of either C# or Java. By putting in extra time with the tutorial references you can make up for deficiencies in your knowledge of these languages.

Syllabus, Summer 2007:

Lectures and labs, shown here, are being revised, some content changed, and some content moved to other days. The final schedule should appear here shortly before classes begin.
LectureTopicsRead before classProject
Lect #1
May 24 		Course Requirements, Syllabus, Web programming models, Hello world in HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, ASP, and Java. HandoutsWeb NotesLab #1
Lect #2
May 31 		Java EE5 Environment, Facilities, and Examples TBD
Web Notes		Lab #2
Lect #3
June 07 		Asp.Net Environment, Facilities, and ExamplesText chaps 2-4
Web Notes		Lab #3
Lect #4
June 14 		PHP Environment, Facilities, and ExamplesText Chap 13
Web Notes		Lab #4
Lect #5
June 21		Relational data model with examples in PHP, Asp.Net, and JavaText chaps 5,6,9
Web Notes		Lab #5
Lect #6
June 28		Web Services with PHP, Asp.Net, and Java ExamplesText Chap 12
Web Notes		Lab #6
Lect #7
July 05		Examples of WebApp/DB and WebService/WebClient applications in Java, C#, and PHPText chap 5, 6, 9, 11
Web Notes		Lab #7
Lect #8
July 12		Ajax and other selected topicsText Chap 12
Web Notes		Lab #8
Lect #9
July 19		Application Security
Platform comparisons
Final Project status reports		Text Chap 10
Web Notes		Final Project
Lect #10
July 26		Final Project Demonstrations:
Schedule
 Final Project
Class meets once per week for four hours from 2:00pm to 6:00pm in 274 Link Hall.