2503ICT Web Programming (2013 semester 1)

Welcome

Welcome to the shared Web site for the 2013 semester 1 offering of courses 2503ICT Web Programming and 7401ICT eService Technology.

Announcements

Week 12

• Important guest lecture this Tuesday by developer Rob Dawson on alternative ways to do Web application development, particularly using Ruby on Rails.
• Slides from Rob's lecture will be uploaded soon.
• There are laboratories with assessed milestones this week as usual. Lab 10 is now available.

Week 11

• A solution with source code to Lab 7 is now available.
• Lecture notes for week 11 are available.
• There are no new laboratory exercises for week 11. Students should attend the laboratories to have their lab 9 milestones marked and to receive advice and feedback on the solutions to Assignment 2.
• Assignment 2 is due at the end of this week.
• It is probably more important for students to work on Assignment 2 than on Lab 9.
• When you submit your solutions to Assignment 2, please ensure your database contains a couple of items with closing date 1 day after submission, a couple 1 week after submission, and a couple 1 month after submission. Also, please include in your email or documentation the usernames and passwords of at least two registered users.

Week 10

• Lecture notes for week 10 are available.
• Lab 9 is available.
• Marks and feedback for labs 6 and 7 and for Assignment 1 will be emailed to you when ready.

Week 9

• A solution, with source code, to Assignment 1 is now available.
• Lecture notes for week 9 are available.
• Lab 8 is available.
• Labs are being held as normal. Show your solutions to Lab 7 milestones, and start work on Lab 8 milestones.
• The age example has been extended to illustrate more features of the useful DateInterval class.
• Solutions to Lab 7 milestone may be sent by email to Rodney ot Heidi as appropriate until 5pm this Friday. Use the Subject line "WP Lab 7 submission"; give the URL of your solution, and other relevant information, in the body of the message.
• Solutions to the two Lab6 milestones are available.

Week 8

• Lecture notes for week 8 are available.
• Lab 7 is available.
• Assignment 2 is available.
• Thursday 25 April is a public holiday and so there are no lab classes. Demonstrator Heidi Perret is unavailable for her 2pm lab class on Wednesday 24 April. Accordingly...students in the Wednesday 2pm class and both Thursday lab classes may submit their solutions to the lab 6 (and lab 7) milestones by sending a message to their demonstrator (r.topor@griffith.edu.au or h.perret@griffith.edu.au) by 5pm on Friday 26 April. This message must have the subject line "WP Lab 6 submission" and include a brief message with URLs of the solutions.
• The 11am Wednesday lab class will be held and assessed as normal.

Week 7

• Please no not change your Assignment 1 files or Assignment 1 tables after submission.
• Please be patient as we mark your Assignment 1 submissions.
• Assignment 2 will be made available later this week.
• Lecture notes and laboratory exercises for week 7 are available.

Week 6

• Lecture notes for week 6 are available.
• There are no new laboratory exercises for week 6. Students should attend the laboratories to have their week 5 milestones marked and to receive advice and feedback on the solutions to Assignment 1.
• Assignment 1 is due at the end of this week.
• The assignment is due at the end of Sunday, not the beginning of Sunday.
• Solutions to the milestones in Laboratory 4 are available.
• Standard late penalties of 10% or 2.5 marks a day apply for Assignment 1.
• We will test your forms in Assignment 1 with input that are empty and that contain apostrophes.
• Why you need to sanitise user input: Exploits of a Mom

Week 5

• Lectures notes and laboratory exercises for week 5 are available.
• Assignment 1 is available. Any minor changes to the assignment will be announced here.
• A solution to Laboratory 5 is available.

Week 4

• Lecture notes and laboratory exercises for week 4 are available.
• It's particularly important to attempt laboratory tasks 1 and 2 before the laboratory class this week.
• I've provided some Laboratory 3 hints.
• Please let us knoow if you have not received your MySQL account details by email.
• Please remember to join the discussion forum at https://www.facebook.com/groups/145688818928105/.
• A laboratory absence policy has been published on learning@griffith. This should not affect most students most of the time.

Week 3

• Lecture notes and laboratory exercises for week 3 are at last available. Sorry for the delay.

Week 2

• Lecture notes and laboratory exercises for week 2 are now available.
• Many of the examples in the lecture notes are hosted on dwarf, so it is necessary to use VPN as described below to run and view them.
• The experimental closed group GU 2503ICT 2013 Semester 1 on Facebook is now available. After logging in to Facebook, go to the URL https://www.facebook.com/groups/145688818928105/ and request to join the group. (If your Facebook account name is different from your University name, email me to tell me who the Facebook account really belongs to.)
• If you wish to have your lab solutions assessed at the start of the class, you must be in the lab class on time, and put your name in a list on the white board.
• Before you ask to have your lab exercises assessed, you must have a browser window open to demonstrate your solution, you must have a text editor window open so we can see the source code of your solution, and you must have a browser tab ready so we can see that your HTML is valid HTML5.
• Even if we don't say so every time, every HTML document you write or generate must be valid HTML5, must be well structured using HTML5 semantic elements, and must use your own external style sheet to provide a simple, distinctive, usable user interface.
• Good stuff is being posted on the course discussion forum. Less than half the class has joined the forum. Please go the the URL URL https://www.facebook.com/groups/145688818928105/ and request to join the forum!
• Remember: To access dwarf (where your examples and some lecture notes examples are hosted) from home, you need to use virtual private network (VPN) software. Downloads and instructions are available here.
• Remember: This Sunday (10 March) is the last day to enrol in a new course (if you wish to transfer from this course to another one).

Week 1

• Welcome to the Web site for the 2013 semester 1 offering of 2503ICT Web Programming at Nathan.
• Welcome also to the 7401ICT eService Technology students; 7401ICT is just a slight variation of 2503ICT.
• Most course content is available at the URL http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/teaching/2503ICT/. Some is available on learning@griffith.
• Note that laboratories in this course start in week 1 and that there is an assessment item in the first laboratory!
• Before the first classes, students should prepare by revising their knowledge of HTML, CSS and (Java) programming.
• Whenever you email me, always include "2503ICT" in the subject of your message, always write from your University email account, and always include your name and student id in the body of the message.
• To access dwarf from home, you need to use virtual private network (VPN) software. Downloads and instructions are available here.